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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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De Civitate Dei
This book was printed by Nicolas Jenson, the printer noted by Morris for the influence of his Roman type on Morris's Golden type. Jenson printed it in 1475 in his Gothic type.
Compendium Theologiae Veritatis
In A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press, he wrote "[a]fter a while I felt that I must have a Gothic as well as a Roman fount; and herein the task I set myself was to redeem the Gothic character from the charge of…
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…
In the Dawn of the World: Being Twenty-Five Pictures Illustrative of a Portion of the Book of Genesis
This volume by the Merrymount Press of Boston shows the appreciation for fine printing moving to North America. The illustrations, by Edward Burne-Jones, were originally intended for a large "Biblia Innocentium" to be published by the Kelmscott…
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…
The First Part of the History of the Valourous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha
This is a work of the Ashendene Press, which began printing in 1895 and continued until the first World War forced its closure in 1915. It was revived after the war in 1920 and continued printing until 1935. Two hundred and twenty five copies have…
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…
The English Bible: Containing the Old Testament & the New Translated Out of the Original Tongues by Special Command of His Majesty King James the First and Now Reprinted
"Printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker at the Doves Press, No. I, The Terrace, Hammersmith, from the text of the late Dr. Scrivener's Paragraph Bible by permission of the Syndics of the University Press Cambridge. The verse had been…
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,…
A Note on the Design of the Kelmscott Chaucer
Printed in commemoration of the centenary of the birth (March 24, 1834) of William Morris by The Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California for distribution to members of the Club. 350 copies.