Gothic architecture : a lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society / by William Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, William, 1834-1896, author, bookseller, publisher, type designer.

Contributor:

Morris, William, 1834-1896, printer.

Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917, inscriber.

Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, host institution.

Kelmscott Press, printer, publisher.

Joseph Batchelor & Son, papermaker.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Gothic.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Handmade papers (Paper)

Watermarks (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Golden.

Case bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Lectures.

Publishers' advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

Krumbhaar, E. B. (Edward Bell), 1882- (donor) (RBC copy 1)

Perkins, G. Holmes (donor) (FAL copy)

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 68 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 15 cm (16mo)

Distribution:

Upper Mall, Hammersmith : Sold by William Morris [at the] Kelmscott Press.

Manufacture:

[London] : Printed by the Kelmscott Press during the Arts and Crafts Exhibition at the New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1893.

Place of Publication:

[Hammersmith] : [Kelmscott Press], [1893]

Notes:

"Throughout his lecture Morris wove together themes of architecture and the book arts, creating the sense of a total environment for the mind and the eye. On pages 44-45 he treated what he called literary and household furnishings, moving between the fields of literature, architecture, painting, weaving, and embroidery. This interrelationship of many arts is not surprising in a lecture given to an arts and crafts society, and it is typical of the integrated view which Ruskin, Morris and their followers held"--Alice H.R.H. Beckwith. Victorian bibliomania....Providence, Rhode Island: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1987.

Publication date from Peterson.

"This paper, first spoken as a lecture at the New Gallery, for the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society, in the year 1889, was printed by the Kelmscott Press during the Arts and Crafts Exhibition at the New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1893. Sold by William Morris, Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith."--Colophon.

"1500 paper copies (2s. 6d.); 45 vellum copies (10s. during the Exhibition and 15s. afterwards). Printed during October and November 1893. First copies issued 21 October 1893."--Peterson.

Signatures: pi1 a-d⁸ e⁴ (leaves e3 and e4 blanks).

"[Sextodecimo] ... Flower (2) paper ... Golden type."--Peterson.

Six-line foliate initials on leaves a1r, a4v and c84; 4-line foliate initials throughout text.

Caption title on leaf a1r and shoulder notes in red.

"Binding: Quarter holland (blue pape ron boards). Text of title-page pritned in black on front cover."--Peterson.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Art Bound: Book Design Past & Present," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2008.

Athenaeum copy: Ex libris M.B. Forman; inscribed by H. Buxton Forman.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has paper slip printed with Kelmscott Press's advertisement for this edition laid in.

Cited in:

Peterson, W.S. Kelmscott Press, A18

Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2018

OCLC:

2032913

Publisher Number:

PML 79868