xvi, 302 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Holdings:
Reference LibraryZ232.M87 P46 2020 (LC)
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index."Essays on fine printing in the UK and USA during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first published in various journals, edited and with added illustrations"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
William Morris and nineteenth-century English printing -- Morris as an awkward Marxist: The economics of fine printing -- Catterson-Smith's "Little Job" -- Sydney Cockerell and the Kelmscott Press -- Nineteenth-century revivals: Typographical and spiritual -- The library of Emery Walker -- An album of Charles T. Jacobi -- Sir John Betjeman as collector and book-designer -- The correspondence of Daniel Berkeley Updike and Thomas Maitland Cleland -- St. John Hornby and the Daniels: Their correspondence -- Pickering and the Quakers -- Appendix: Publications of William S. Peterson.
Subject Terms:
Morris, William, 1834–1896. | Kelmscott Press -- History. | Fine books -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. | Fine books -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. | Fine books -- United States -- History -- 19th century. | Fine books -- United States -- History -- 20th century. | Private presses -- Great Britain -- History. | Private presses -- United States -- History. | Book design -- Great Britain -- History. | Book design -- United States -- History. | Morris, William, 1834–1896. | Kelmscott Press. | Book design. | Fine books. | Private presses. | Great Britain. | United States.