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The Kelmscott Press

The Kelmscott Press PDF Author: William S. Peterson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520061385
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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From a quantitative point of view the achievement of the Kelmscott Press may not seem impressive: between 1891 and 1898 it produced fifty-two books and a set of specimen pages for another book. Yet each was remarkably beautiful. Designed by William Morris, printed on hand-presses, ornamented with initials and borders by Morris, and illustrated often by Edward Burne-Jones, these few Kelmscott Press books are famous everywhere today. Why they have so profoundly affected twentieth-century theories of book design and what cultural significance the founding of the Kelmscott Press played are some of the questions the author considers.