The Art and Craft of Printing

Name: The Art and Craft of Printing
Author: Morris, William

Morris, William

Hammersmith (London, England) -- Imprints; Kelmscott Press; Printing -- Great Britain -- History

6. Scholarship certificates for the Technical Education Board of the
London County Council, printed in the oblong borders designed for the
pictures in Chaucer's Works. One of these borders was not used in the
book, and this is its only appearance. The first certificate was printed
in Nov., 1894, and was followed in Jan., 1896, by eleven certificates;
in Jan., 1897, by six certificates; and in Feb., 1898, by eleven
certificates, all differently worded. Golden type. The numbers varied
from 12 to 2500 copies.

7. Programmes of the Kelmscott Press annual wayzgoose for the years
1892-5. These were printed without supervision from Mr. Morris.

8. Specimen showing the three types used at the Press for insertion in
the first edition of Strange's Alphabets. March, 1895. 2000 ordinary
copies and 60 on large paper.

9. Card for Associates of the Deaconess Institution for the Diocese of
Rochester. One side of this card is printed in Chaucer type; on the
other there is a prayer in the Troy type enclosed in a small border
which was not used elsewhere. It was designed for the illustrations of a
projected edition of The House of the Wolfings. April, 1897. 250
copies.


  A LIST OF THE BOOKS DESCRIBED ABOVE.              page

   1 The Glittering Plain (without illustrations)     15
   2 Poems by the Way                                 15
   3 Blunt's Love Lyrics and Songs of Proteus         16
   4 Ruskin's Nature of Gothic                        16
   5 The Defence of Guenevere                         16
   6 A Dream of John Ball                             17
   7 The Golden Legend                                17
   8 The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye           18
   9 Mackail's Biblia Innocentium                     19
  10 Reynard the Foxe                                 19
  11 Shakespeare's Poems and Sonnets                  20
  12 News from Nowhere                                20
  13 The Order of Chivalry                            20
  14 Cavendish's Life of Wolsey                       21
  15 Godefrey of Boloyne                              21
  16 More's Utopia                                    22
  17 Tennyson's Maud                                  22
  18 Gothic Architecture, by William Morris           22
  19 Sidonia the Sorceress                            23
  20 Rossetti's Ballads and Narrative Poems           23
  20a    "      Sonnets and Lyrical Poems             24
  21 King Florus                                      23
  22 The Glittering Plain (illustrated)               23
  23 Amis and Amile                                   24
  24 The Poems of Keats                               24
  25 Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon                  25
  26 The Emperor Coustans                             25
  27 The Wood beyond the World                        25
  28 The Book of Wisdom and Lies                      25
  29 Shelley's Poems, Vol. I.                         26
  29a         "        "   II.                        28

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