In his preface to The Golden Bowl Henry James explains, at some length, why he chose purely photographic decorations, rather than illustrations, for the New York Edition of his Novels and Stories:
Anything that relieves responsible prose of the duty of being, while placed before us, food enough, interesting enough and, if the question be of picture, pictorial enough, above all in itself, does it the worst of services. …
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