1991.1016.996.Z19

Essay on printing: MS by William Morris and Emery Walker with MS by William Morris On His Aims Of Founding The Kelmscott Press

William Morris (author), Emery Walker (author), Katharine Adams (binder), Emery Walker (collector)

Bound manuscript entitled 'Essay on printing: MS by William Morris and Emery Walker with MS by William Morris On His Aims Of Founding The Kelmscott Press [and observations by William Morris on the process of engraving]. With a note by Douglas Cockerell and bound by Katharine Adams, Broadway, 1902. From the library belonging to Emery Walker.

, London

1902-01-01 - 1902-12-31

19th century

cardboard, cotton, leather, paper, gilt

This book contains: / a) Sir Emery Walker's short article on Printing for the /catalogue of the first Arts and Crafts Exhibition at the /New Gallery Regent Street, 1888 / b) The first two paragraphs of the same article followed /by William Morris's expansion and completion of it for a /volume entitled 'Arts and Crafts Essays', 1893 / c) A note by William Morris on his Aims in founding the /Kelmscott Press, written 11th Nov 1895 for an American collector /and printed in the last book issued by the press, 1898. /d) Observations by William Morris on Process Engraving,/ apparently for a demonstration or a discussion- perhaps /at the Art Worker's Guild, of which Morris was master in 1892. / Sydney Cockerell, Kew 3 Oct 1951 (55th anniversary of W M's death) / These documents have an importance in connexion with the /history of the revival of fine printing in England in the last /decade of the 19th century. They were bound by Katharine Adams /at Broadway in Worcestershire in 1902.