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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…

"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…

Lawton Kennedy, with his younger brother, Alfred, developed an interest in printing at an early age. He started working full time as a teenager and soon become recognized as an exceptional pressman. He worked for several well-known Bay Area printers…

Printed by Mills College to honor the centenary of William Morris's birth. The text is part of a lecture entitled The Decorative Arts that Morris delivered in 1877 in support of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, an organization he…

A "rhymed version of the Pentitential Psalms found in a manuscript of Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis, written at Gloucester about the year 1440, and now transcribed and edited by F.S. Ellis. Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 14, Upper…

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.

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…

In A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press, he wrote, "By instinct rather than by conscious thinking it over, I began by getting myself a fount of Roman type. And here what I wanted was letter pure in form; severe,…

This is a gathering of poets and writers and artists living in or around the mesa in Bolinas, California. Not so much a school of poets as a meeting of those who happen to be at this geographical location at this point in wobbly time, several…

In 1966, the year after the closure of the Grabhorn Press, Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem founded the Grabhorn-Hoyem Press; following Grabhorn's death, Hoyem renamed it the Arion Press. It publishes limited edition letterpress books, often with…