Author: Henry Turner Bailey

Henry Turner Bailey promoted drawing, design, and handcraft as connected parts of education. Booklet Making: An Art-Craft Problem, issued by the Prang Company in 1912, turns a handmade book into a classroom project. Bailey guides students through choosing a subject, gathering text and illustrations, planning page proportions, lettering, decoration, assembly, and simple binding. His worked example uses Longfellow, but the method transfers to many literary and historical subjects. Project Gutenberg identifies the guide’s original edition and place in art and book education, while later conservation literature cites it within the history of booklet structures. Booklet Making: An Art-Craft Problem reflects Bailey’s belief that useful making should unite research, judgment, visual order, and service. The finished object matters, alongside habits developed while balancing words, images, materials, sequence, and an intended reader.