Sparling, Henry Halliday The Kelmscott Press and William Morris, Master-Craftsman , Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1975.

Illustrated by Frontis portrait plate. 16 Plates. New Edition. Hard Cover. Nr. Fine. 8vo 0712906789 Brown cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. Frontis portrait plate. 16 plates. 224 pages clean and tight. CONTENTS: THE IDEA TAKES FORM. PRINTING IN I888. MORRIS IN 1888. APPRENTICESHIP. PREPARATION. THE MASTER-PRINTER. BOOKS PRINTED. ACHIEVEMENT EPILOGUE. APPENDIX A NOTE ON HIS AIMS IN FOUNDING THE KELMSCOTT PRESS. BY WILLIAM MORRIS. A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE KELMSCOTT PRESS. BY S. C. COCKERELL. AN ANNOTATED LIST OF THE BOOKS PRINTED AT THE PRESS. BY S. C. COCKERELL. VARIOUS LISTS, LEAFLETS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. PRINTED AT THE KELMSCOTT PRESS. INDEX. LIST OF PLATES: Portrait of William Morris. Frontispiece.. (1) The " Golden " Type: a page from News from Nowhere. (2) The "Troye "Type. The " Chaucer " "Type. (3)From the engraved Titlepage for Syr Ysambrace, 1897: Border by William Morris. Picture by Sir E. Burne-Jones. Engraved on wood by W. H. Hooper. (4) Frontispiece to A Dream of _John Ball by William Morris. Drawn by E. Burne-Jones. Engraved by W. H. Hooper. Border by Morris. (5) S. Frontispiece to News from Nowhere by William Morris: Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire. Drawn by C. M. Gere. Engraved by W. H. Hooper. Border by Morris. (6) Frontispiece to 11 Tale of the Emperor Coustans Done out of the Ancient French by William Morris. Drawn by Morris. Engraved by W. H. Hooper. (7) From William Morris's Drawing for engraved Titlepage for Maud for the Kelmscott Press, 1893. (8) An Initial Word from the Chaucer. (9) Chaucer and the Birds. From the first page of Chaucer's Works. Drawn by Sir E. Burne-Jones. Engraved by W. H. Hooper. (10) Colophon for Quarto Books of the Kelmscott Press. (11) Initial Word for The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris. One of the last two designs made by Morris shortly before his death. The First Colophon. (12) Italian Humanistic Calligraphy, Fifteenth Century. (13) Type of Nicholas Jenson: Gloria Mulierum, Venice 1471. Type of Jacques Le Rouge: Aretino, Lionardo; Historia del Popolo Fiorentino, Florence, 1476 . (14) Type of Schoeffer: Biblia Latina, Mainz, 1472. Type of Gunther Zainer, Augsburg, 1471: Speculum Vitae Humanae, 1471. (15) Facsimile of a page of Morris's Manuscript for the proposed Edition of Froissart. (16) Facsimile of Morris's Verses for Embroidered Hangings for his Bed at Kelmscott . (Book ref. 129751)  £85.00

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