On first seeing Iceland / William Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, William, 1834-1896, author.

Contributor:

Legg, Owen, 1935- printer, illustrator.

Woodcraft Press, publisher.

Wookey Hole Mill, papermaker.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iceland--Poetry.

Iceland.

Genre:

Poetry

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Dante.

Wilcox (Paper).

Fabriano Ingres (Paper).

Japanese Mulberry (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Legg, Owen, 1935- (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[8] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tonbridge : Woodcraft Press, 1992.

Notes:

With color frontispiece.

Place of publication from colophon.

Printed and illustrated by Owen Legg.

Colophon reads: William Morris first published this poem in 1891 in a collection of his work entitled "Poems by the Way" having written it after visits to Iceland in 1871 and 1873. This edition of 100 copies is hand set with Dante ... The handmade paper is white Wilcox ... made at Wookey Hole Mill. The cover is Fabriano Ingres. The illustration, either of an imaginary icelandic scene or self portrait, is printed on Japanese mulberry paper. Finished this 14th day of July 1992 at the Woodcraft Press, Tonbridge to mark my departure for Iceland with the British Schools Exploring Society.

Saddle stitched. Bound in taupe paper. Loose tissue protecting frontispiece.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 82.

Contains:

Morris, William, 1834-1896. Poems by the way.

OCLC:

1076231211