The private presses / Colin Franklin with John R. Turner (bibliography and indexes).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Colin, author.

Contributor:

Turner, John R., contributor.

Scolar Press, publisher.

Gower Publishing Company, publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Private presses--Great Britain.

Private presses.

Printing--Great Britain--History.

Printing.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

378 pages, [10] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England : Scolar Press, 1991.

Brookfield, Vt., USA : Gower Publishing Company

Summary:

The renaissance of printing is generally accepted as starting in 1891, the date of the first publication from William Morris's Kelmscott Press. In that year, Morris printed his own Story of the Glittering Plain, so beginning a movement that was to continue until 1939. The author begins his survey with the Daniel Press, started by the Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, and traces the development of the private movement in printing which flourished between 1891 and 1914: these presses include Kelmscott, Ashendene, Essex House, Vale and Doves. Between the wars in Britain three presses stand out: the Gregynog Press, Shakespeare Head, and Golden Cockerel. This book is the only one of its kind to trace the history and development of these presses, publishers of some of the finest examples of printing of English books that has ever been known.

Contents:

Introduction

Author's note to the second edition

The Daniel press and nineteenth-century Oxford

The Kelmscott press and William Morris

Ashendene and the qualities of a gentleman

Essex house and guild socialism

Vale, eragny and a link with the aesthetic movement

The doves press and high idealism

Gregynog and gogmagog

Golden Cockerel and Shakespeare Head

Et cetera

Collecting

Select bibliography

Daniel press

Kelmscott press

Ashendene press

Essex house press

Vale press

Eragny press

Caradoc press

Doves press

Gregynog press

Golden Cockerel press

Shakespeare Head press

Author index

Title index.

Notes:

"Select bibliography of private presses": pages 183-360.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has dust jacket.

ISBN:

0859678350

9780859678353

OCLC:

21675590