Fine printing and private presses : selected papers / Roderick Cave.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cave, Roderick, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Private press books.

Fine books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London : The British Library, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Writing to the Monotype Recorder in 1933, Eric Gill stated that a private press prints solely what it chooses to print, whereas a public press prints what its customers demand of it. Although the most famous private presses came out of the arts and crafts movement, in the 100 years since the formation of Morris's Kelmscott Press, fine printing has emerged as a distinct subject. In this series of essays, Roderick Cave draws on over 40 years experience of study, to examine the history and output of some of the famous presses such as the Doves Press and the Golden Cockerel Press, as well as some of the lesser known names such as the Pear Tree Press and the Pontine Press. The geographical range of fine printing extends around the world from the UK and US to Italy, Austria and Jamaica.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I ASPECTS OF BRITISH PRIVATE PRESSES A View from 1970

2 'PECULIARIA AC PRIVATA'The Historiography of Private Presses, and the Bibliographical Description of Fine Printing

3 PRIVISH AND PERISH?A Case Study of Press book Productionin Britain between the Wars

4 'PRINTING AT HOME' An un-Common Press in the Canterbury Museum, New Zealand

5 AN AMATEUR PRINTER OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

6 A PRINTER'S APPRENTICESHIP Reminiscences of Christopher Sandford

7 PRINTING AT THE BREWHOUSE

8 BLAKE'S MANTLE The Press of Ralph Chubb

9 T. J. COBDEN-SANDERSON AS BOOKBINDER

10 GOGMAGOG The Private Press of Morris Cox

II 'DRIVEN BY A LIVELY SPONTANEITY' Gogmagog and Morris Cox

I2 THE BEGINNINGS OF A CO-OPERATIVE VENTURE The Forgotten Years of the Golden Cockerel Press

13 AN EXPERIMENT WITH FAIRER TERMS FOR AUTHORS Some Letters from Hal Taylor to Louis Golding

14 AT THE SIGN OF THE INK WELL

15 THE KEEPSAKE PRESS OF ROY LEWIS AND DAUGHTERS

16 FORGING LINKS AT THE LATIN PRESSSome Letters between Guido Morris and Will Ransom

17 A LETTER FROM GUIDO MORRIS

18 PORTRAIT OF HIS MAJESTY AS PRINTER

19 A CORDIAL CORRESPONDENCE Collaboration between Dard Hunter and WILL Ransom, 1923-5

20 NAG'S HEAD A New Zealand Private Press

21 THE FIRST JAMAICAN PRIVATE PRESS

22 THOMAS RAE :A MODERN SCOTTISH PRINTER

23 ONE DAY IN ALPIGNANO A Visit to Alberto Tallone Editore

24 ROLF HENNEQUEL A Tasmanian Printer

25 DAMPING, DWELL, AND BITE Advice from Will Ransom on Good Impression

26 MONCKTON MILNES AND THE PHILOBIBLON SOCIETY

27 SOME WELL-DESIGNED PUBLISHERS' SERIES

28 THE GREY WALLS PRESS CROWN CLASSICS

29 FOLIO A Cockerel's Fledgling

NOTES

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 16, 2015).

ISBN:

0-7123-6394-7

OCLC:

927484680