Morris & Company
Subtitle: essays on fine printing
By: by William S. Peterson
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: New Castle, Delaware
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781584563853
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: History; Fine books; Private presses; Book design; Kelmscott Press
Other titles: Morris and Company
Work titles: Essays
Description: "Essays on fine printing in the UK and USA during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first published in various journals, edited and with added illustrations"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: William Morris and nineteenth-century English printing; title: Morris as an awkward Marxist: The economics of fine printing; title: Catterson-Smith's "Little Job"; title: Sydney Cockerell and the Kelmscott Press; title: Nineteenth-century revivals: Typographical and spiritual; title: The library of Emery Walker; title: An album of Charles T. Jacobi; title: Sir John Betjeman as collector and book-designer; title: The correspondence of Daniel Berkeley Updike and Thomas Maitland Cleland; title: St. John Hornby and the Daniels: Their correspondence; title: Pickering and the Quakers; title: Appendix: Publications of William S. Peterson.