xvi, 302 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.