December 2011
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William Morris' Kelmscott Press
Perhaps the most famous of the private presses, William Morris established the Kelmscott Press at Hammersmith in January 1891…The books Morris produced were therefore medieval in design, modeled on the incunabula of the fifteenth century. Morris’s roman ‘golden’ type, for example, was inspired by that of the early printer Nicolaus Jenson of Venice.—University of Glasgow, Special Collections
William Morris
The well at the world’s end London: Kelmscott Press, 1896 Sp Coll f295
With wood engraved illustrations after Edward Burne-Jones; quarto; Chaucer type; limp vellum cover; edition of 350
frontispiece to Book III
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