A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press

William Morris, 1834-96, printer designer

1898

20.8 x 14.6 cm.

Beckwith, Victorian Bibliomania catalogue no. 21

After William Morris died in 1896, his trustees and friends published this book as the last work of the Kelmscott Press. It is a memorial and an essential history of Morris's development as a designer concerned with every aspect of book production. The volume begins with an account written by Morris for a London bookseller who had an American client desirous of giving a lecture on the Kelmscott Press. [Continued below]

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