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- Collection: DIGITAL COLLECTION: A Definite Claim to Beauty: the Kelmscott Press and the Aesthetics of the Book
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The Helmsman
Martha Jane Bissell was a highly trained bookbinder when she married Robert Grabhorn in 1932, and following their marriage she took up printing. In 1937 she founded the Jumbo Press, which mainly printed ephemera. In 1938 she co-founded the Colt…
Here Begynneth the Prologe of Syr Johan Froissart of the Chronicles of Fraunce, Inglande, and Other Places Adjoynynge
It had been Morris's hope that the Kelmscott Press would continue after his death, but his executor, Sydney Cockerell, decided it should be closed to keep all Morris's publications as a cohesive body. This trial page is one of the last things printed…
Paradise Lost: a Poem in XII Books
The Doves Bible shows a shift away from the ornate designs of the Kelmscott Press towards a simpler aesthetic in which composition and the elegance of the printing are brought to the fore. The Bible is printed in black with red and blue used…
Poetry at the Edge
Carolee Campbell's interest in the book arts grew from her work as a photographer, first binding her photographs into books and then studying papermaking, bookbinding, and letterpress printing.
Card by May Morris
This card is laid in the book Gothic Architecture.
The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Proof pages for the Kelmscott Press's Shelley consisting of 8 leaves (one signature) covering pages 353-368.
250 copies printed on paper, 6 on vellum.
250 copies printed on paper, 6 on vellum.
The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-tongue and Raven the Skald: Even as Ari Thorgilson the Learned, the Priest, Hath Told It: Who Was the Man of All Iceland Most Learned in Tales of the Land's Inhabiting and in Lore of Time Agone
75 copies of this book were printed for William Morris by the Chiswick Press for private distribution. It was printed in a black letter facsimile of one of Caxton's on hand-made paper left over from the large paper copies of The Roots of the…
Dangerous as Daughters
Five Trees Press was founded in San Francisco in 1973 by Kathleen Walkup, Jaime Robles, and Cheryl Miller. The press focused on printing the work of women poets both famous and unknown.The colophon states that "[t]his book was designed and printed by…
Design and Binding for Charles I by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson
Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson was a friend of Morris, a lawyer who, after learning bookbinding, left the practice of law to focus on his new craft. In 1893 he founded the Doves Bindery in Hammersmith with the intention of accomplishing for…
The Ideal Book, or, Book Beautiful: a Tract on Calligraphy, Printing & Illustration & on the Book Beautiful as a Whole
John Henry Nash moved to San Francisco in 1895 and worked for a variety of presses before printing under his own name. The mitred rule (the vertical and horizontal lines that frame the text in many of his works) is a distinguishing trait of his work,…