" It was an irresistible development of modern illustration (so largely photographic) that borders should be abandoned and the " picture" end only with the paper. This method may be suitable for for photographs; but it is altogether inappropriate for the pictures that illustrate or are inspired by fairy-stories. An enchanted forest requires a margin, even an elaborate border. To print it coterminous with the page, like a " shot" of the Rockies in Picture Post, as if it were indeed a " snap" of fairyland or a " sketch by our artist on the spot" , is a folly and an abuse. "