The Ideal Book
The Ideal Book

Author: William Morris

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-12-22

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0520345223

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

The Kelmscott Press
The Kelmscott Press

Author: William S. Peterson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780520061385

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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.