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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
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The private press books on show are all hand-crafted: printed on fine paper, bound individually, limited in issue number, and almost all contain fine illustrative matter, usually wood-cuts or engravings. With such superb productions, it is inevitable that a number of well-known illustrators were commissioned to illustrate these books. Such artists include Eric Gill, Blair Hughes-Stanton, and the Dunedin-born John Buckland Wright. Presses featured include the Kelmscott Press, founded by William Morris, the "Father of the Arts and Craft Movement", the Doves Press, and Lucien Pissarro's Eragny Press, to the Welsh Gregynog Press, the Ashendene Press, and local New Zealand operations such as Caxton Press and The Pear Tree Press. Notable items on display include The Tale of King Coustans (1894), an original Kelmscott production, a Rampant Lion Press printing of Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes (1984), Robert Louis Stevenson's Prayers (1999), a 1993 spread featuring Rimbaud's poem Voyelles (Vowels), Judith Haswell's painstaking three year production of Potsherds and Geraniums (1988-91), and Alan Loney's experimental Dawn/Water (1979) and Squeezing the Bones (1983).
This exhibition was opened on 24 June 2004.
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The works of Geoffrey Chaucer
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The works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted
Works. 1896
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Private presses
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After listening to a lecture on printing by Emery Walker in London on 15 November 1888, William Morris became so enthused that he proclaimed: ‘Let’s make a new fount of type.’ So begun his ‘little typographical adventure’ which resulted in the formation of his Kelmscott Press, from which 53 books were printed during a seven-year period (1891 to 1898). Morris used medieval manuscripts and well printed 15th and 16th century books as exemplars ‘to re-attain a long-lost standard of craftsmanship of book printing.’ He rejected the publications of the 19th century, with their shoddy materials (paper, bindings) and awful design. With an Albion press (and competent pressmen), hand-made Batchelor paper, inks, and typefaces of his own design, he produced his magnum opus, the Kelmscott Chaucer, which contained 87 wood engravings by his friend Edward Burne-Jones. Four hundred and twenty-five paper and 13 vellum copies were printed and sold at £20 and 120 guineas respectively. The work, of which this is a modern facsimile, was called ‘the greatest triumph of English typography.’ It is simply stunning.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey
Morris, William
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Basilisk Press : London
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1975
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Robinson, Duncan
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley
Basilisk Press
Kelmscott Press
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Illustrations
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PR1850 1975 [Special Collections Dble Oversize]
Basilisk Press
Books
Chaucer
Medieval manuscripts
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Printing
Printing press
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