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Morris & Company : essays on fine printing / by William S. Peterson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Reference Collection Z232.M87 P46 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peterson, William S., author.
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Morris, William, 1834-1896.
- Morris, William.
- Kelmscott Press--History.
- Kelmscott Press.
- Fine books--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Fine books.
- Fine books--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Fine books--United States--History--19th century.
- Fine books--United States--History--20th century.
- Private presses--Great Britain--History.
- Private presses.
- Private presses--United States--History.
- Book design--Great Britain--History.
- Book design.
- Book design--United States--History.
- History.
- United States.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 302 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Morris and Company
- Place of Publication:
- New Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- William Morris and nineteenth-century English printing
- Morris as an awkward Marxist: The economics of fine printing
- Catterson-Smith's "Little Job"
- Sydney Cockerell and the Kelmscott Press
- Nineteenth-century revivals: Typographical and spiritual
- The library of Emery Walker
- An album of Charles T. Jacobi
- Sir John Betjeman as collector and book-designer
- The correspondence of Daniel Berkeley Updike and Thomas Maitland Cleland
- St. John Hornby and the Daniels: Their correspondence
- Pickering and the Quakers
- Appendix: Publications of William S. Peterson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Reference copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 from Oak Knoll Books.
- Kislak Center Reference copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 9781584563853
- 1584563850
- OCLC:
- 1154903448
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