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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
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
Abstract
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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
Date Created
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1975
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Robinson, Duncan
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley
Basilisk Press
Kelmscott Press
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Illustrations
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PR1850 1975 [Special Collections Dble Oversize]
Basilisk Press
Books
Chaucer
Medieval manuscripts
Modern facsimile
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections
Typography
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
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 tale of the Emperor Coustans
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The tale of the Emperor Coustans, and of Over Sea
The Tale of King Coustans the Emperor and of Over Sea
Empereur Constant
Collection Outremer
Subject
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Private presses
Abstract
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Morris’s literary preferences lay in the Middle Ages, and with medieval texts. One such Kelmscott publication comprised two medieval French romances translated by Morris into his own special brand of archaic-sounding English. Borders of twining leaves, woodcut foliated three-line initials, and designs by Burne-Jones enhance these love stories. This book, one of 525 copies, was completed on 30 August 1894, and cost 7s 6d. By acknowledging John Ruskin’s influence, Morris learnt that ‘art is the expression of man’s pleasure in labour.’ He is aptly described as the Father of the Arts and Craft Movement.
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Morris, William
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Kelmscott Press : Hammersmith
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1894
Type
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Text
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PR5079.E5 1894 [Special Collections]
Books
French romances
John Ruskin
Kelmscott Press
Medieval
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
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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Title
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The Romance of Parzival and the Holy Grail
Subject
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Perceval (Legendary character)
Grail
Arthurian romances
Private presses
Wood-engraving
Abstract
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In 1922 Gregynog Press was established by two sisters, Gwendoline and Margaret Davies. After producing high quality limited edition books in rural mid-Wales, it folded in 1940. In 1978 a press was re-established under the title Gwasg Gregynog (Gwasg being Welsh for ‘Press’). It has continued the tradition of the early press, combining hot-metal typesetting, letterpress printing, craft binding, handmade papers, and the employment of leading contemporary artists to produce good quality books. One sumptuous production was Eschenbach’s Romance of Parzival with wood engravings by the Polish artist Stefan Mrozewski (1894-1975). Originally planned for publication by Gregynog in 1930, this work was finally completed in 1990. This is no. 68 of 195 copies.
by Wolfram von Eschenbach ; retold by Carl Lofmark ; with wood engravings by Stefan Mrożewski
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von Eschenbach, Wolfram
Publisher
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Gwasg Gregynog : Newtown [Wales]
Date Created
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1990
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Lofmark, Carl
Mrożewski, Stefan
Mrozewski, Andrzej
Gwasg Gregynog
Type
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Text
Illustrations
Identifier
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PT1682.P8 E5 1990 [Special Collections Dble Oversize]
Books
Grail
Gwasg Gregynog
Printing
Printing press
Romance
Special Collections
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
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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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How to ride a bicycle
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How to Ride a Bicycle in Seventeen Lovely Colours
Subject
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Cycling
Private presses
Abstract
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Robert Coupland Harding, Denis Glover, Leo Bensemann, Ron Holloway, Bob Gormack, Eugene Grayland, Noel Hoggard, Alan Loney, and Tara McLeod are all representatives of New Zealand’s fine printing tradition. One other key figure is Bob Lowry, the noted typographer who owned and operated two printing presses: Pelorus and then Pilgrim Press. Of Lowry’s How to Ride a Bicycle (1946), Glover wrote: ‘Restraint? Lowry has not greatly cared for restraint. If he wishes to out-Herod Herod he will do it with a capital H the size of goal-posts.’ (Book 8) Glover continued: ‘this book must be Seen to be Believed.’ It was printed in 1,000 copies, and is scarce in good condition.
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Fairburn, Arthur Rex Dugard
Publisher
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Pelorus Press : Auckland
Date Created
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1946
Contributor
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Pelorus Press
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PR9640.F3 H6 [Brasch Special Collections]
Books
Pelorus Press
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections
Typography
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
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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A letter to a very young lady on her marriage
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Marriage
Abstract
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During Denis Glover’s 18 year reign at Caxton Press, the literary careers of many New Zealand writers and poets were launched or consolidated. By late 1951, Glover had left and the press was managed by Dennis Donovan, with Glover’s old partner Leo Bensemann, the Christchurch based artist, musician, illustrator, and typographer. It was Bensemann who had kept Caxton Press afloat during the war years. One deluxe edition of this post-Glover period was Swift’s A Letter to a Very Young Lady, limited to 125 copies and hand-set in Caslon 14 pt. The superb illustration is by Bensemann.
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Swift, Jonathan
Bensemann, Leo
Publisher
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Caxton Press : Christchurch
Date Created
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1954
Type
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Illustrations
Text
Identifier
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PR3724.L4 [Special Collections]
Books
Caxton Press
Marriage
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
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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Title
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Hot acrobats perform cheese fog polka
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fine books
Illustrated books
Private presses
Artists' books
Color printing
Abstract
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With butcher paper, a swag of wooden type, and an 1832 Albion flat-bed press, Tara McLeod, owner-operator of The Pear Tree Press, printed 20 copies of Hot Acrobats. It was printed in sections on one continuous sheet and could well have been called: £63 NIGHT HAWK BAM! McLeod has some 25 publications to his credit over a period of ten years. He also prints limited edition books for the Holloway Press at the University of Auckland.
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McLeod, Tara
Publisher
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The Pear Tree Press : Auckland
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
1994
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Illustrations
Identifier
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PR9641.M224 H6 [Special Collections Oversize]
Accordion fold format (Binding)
Books
Display types
Pear Tree Press
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections
Typefaces
Wood types
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
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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Potsherds and Geraniums
Subject
The topic of the resource
Fine books
Illustrated books
Title pages
Printing
Erasers
Private presses
New Zealand poetry
Abstract
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More often than not, private press productions are a labour of love. In creating her book of poems, Judith Haswell, an Auckland poet (and librarian), used a chopstick and a broken razor blade to cut the text in to large white rubber erasers (one is on display). She then used a small press and stamped the poems on to paper, adding colour by hand. One hundred copies were printed; an effort that took three years. Haswell also supplied the calico bag.
Creator
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Haswell, Judith
Publisher
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Donak Press : Auckland
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
1988
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Illustrations
Identifier
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PR9641.H3757 P67 [Special Collections]
Books
Donak Press
Poems
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
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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Dawn/water
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Dawn / water
Subject
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Private presses
New Zealand poetry
Typefaces
Abstract
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Alan Loney’s perfectionist qualities are summed up by his now classic statement on printing: ‘One chooses either to simply muck about in the shed with an old printing press, or to acquire at considerable labour, cost, and some risk to one’s emotional stability, standards of excellence comparable with the finest anywhere in the world.’ Loney, a New Zealander, has had successive presses in various locations: Hawk (Christchurch, Wellington), Black Light (Wellington, Auckland), and more recently, Electio Editions (Melbourne). His collaborative craftsmanship is evident in Bill Manhire’s Dawn/Water, a ‘minimalist poem’ in action, which consists of a descending ‘a’ (almost ready to break through the line) and a moving fly. This is no.92 of 200.
Printed by Alan Loney; text by Bill Manhire; images by Andrew Drummond
Creator
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Manhire, Bill
Drummond, Andrew
Loney, Alan
Publisher
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Hawk Press : Eastbourne (N.Z.)
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
1979
Contributor
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Owens, Colin
Hawk Press
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Illustrations
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PR9641.M26 D38 [Special Collections Oversize]
Books
Hawk Press
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections
Typefaces
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
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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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An address delivered the XIth November
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William Morris
An address delivered the XIth November MDCCCC at Kelmscott House Hammersmith before the Hammersmith Socialist Society
An Address Delivered the XIth November 1890 at Kelmscott House
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Authors, English
Socialists
Designers
Private presses
Abstract
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Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker, the man who inspired William Morris, formed Doves Press in 1901. The pages that were printed were to be uncluttered, without ornament or illustration. The 20 volumes produced under the Doves Press imprint reflected Cobden-Sanderson’s dictum that ‘the whole duty of typography…is to communicate, without loss by the way, the thought or image intended to be communicated by the author.’ Note the near perfect two-colour register amongst the impeccable printing.
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Mackail, John William
Morris, William
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Doves Press : Hammersmith
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1901
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Text
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PR5083 .M397 1901 [Special Collections]
Books
Doves Press
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
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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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Title
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Travels in the Cévennes
Subject
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Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Private presses
Cévennes Mountains Region (France)
Abstract
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In 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes was published. The trek took 11 days and with his long-suffering donkey, Modestine, he covered 120 miles by foot. In the late 1990s, writer and artist Peter Allen journeyed to the Cévennes and re-lived Stevenson’s experience. There is one major difference: Allen traveled by car. Allen also supplied the delightful pochoir illustrations to the text. This is no. 80 of 150 copies.
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Allen, Peter
Publisher
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Whittington Press : Leominster
Date Created
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1998
Type
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Text
Illustrations
Identifier
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DC611.C424 AD64 [Special Collections Oversize]
Books
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections
Whittington Press
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
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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 Revelation of Saint John the divine
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Bible. N.T. Revelation. English. Authorized. 1932
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Private presses
Abstract
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The combination of Blair Hughes-Stanton’s artistry as a wood engraver and Herbert Hodgson’s presswork make this one of the finest books to be produced by the Gregynog Press. All of it was achieved despite the rifts between Hughes-Stanton and his wife (Gertrude Hermes, also a skilled illustrator) and William McCance, the Scottish painter and resident printer. By 1933, these individuals had left Gregynog. This copy, no. 176 of 250, was presented to the University Library in 1957 by Arthur Beacham, Professor of Economics, later Vice-Chancellor, and formerly from Aberystwyth, Wales.
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Hughes-Stanton, Blair
Publisher
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The Gregynog Press : Wales
Date Created
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1932
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Illustrations
Identifier
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BS2825.3.RE48 [Special Collections Oversize]
Books
Gregynog Press
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
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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Poems. 1904
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Christabel, Kubla Khan, Fancy in nubibus, and Song from Zapolya
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Private presses
Abstract
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Eragny Press was established in 1894 by the artist Lucien Pissarro. In the beginning, he relied on Vale Press types owned by the designer and illustrator Charles Ricketts. In 1903, Pissarro used his own type and had his wife Esther engrave the blocks. However, publications such as this (one of 226 paper copies) were always ‘when funds permitted’, a not too unfamiliar situation faced by many private press operators. After 31 books and endless funding problems, Eragny folded in 1914. The initial at the beginning of Coleridge’s Kubla Khan reveals the joint craftsmanship of this husband and wife team.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Pissarro, Lucien
Publisher
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Eragny Press : London
Date Created
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1904
Type
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Text
Identifier
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PR4478.A1 1904 [Special Collections]
Books
Eragny Press
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
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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Matrix 22
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Matrix : a review for printers and bibliophiles
Subject
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Printing--Periodicals
Book collecting--Periodicals
Fine books
Abstract
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Typographical periodicals have, in the main, been relatively short-lived. The Fleuron first appeared in 1923 and survived until 1930; Typography from 1936 to 1939, Alphabet & Image from 1946 to 1948, and Image from 1949 to 1952. John and Rosalind Randle, operator-owners of Whittington Press, England, have printed 23 issues of Matrix by hand. This annual publication, with its eye-catching inserts, is now the leading publication for all who care about fine printing. Originally produced in a run of 350, it is now issued in an edition of 825 copies.
Creator
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Whittington Press
Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher
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Whittington Press : Herefordshire, England
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
2002
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Illustrations
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Z119 MD79 [Special Collections Oversize]
Books
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections
Whittington Press
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
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 phoenix
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The phoenix : a translation from the Latin by Eddie Flintoff of 'De ave phoenice'
De ave phoenice. English
Subject
The topic of the resource
Phoenix (Mythical bird)
Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Private presses
Abstract
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‘Each year I publish two or three limited editions printed with metal type on fine papers with commissioned illustrations.’ So writes Martyn Ould, proprietor of Old Stile Press at Hinton Charterhouse, near Bath. Latin scholar Eddie Flintoff translated Lactantius’s De Ave Phoenice, a mythical tale of the Phoenix bird, its high tree (and song) in the Sacred Grove, and its re-birth on Earth. Alun Briggs wrote the text in a hand based on a mid-5th century Italian manuscript and then printed it all from specially made blocks. The vivid pochoir illustrations are by Peter Allen. This copy is one of 150 copies.
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Lactantius
Flintoff, Eddie
Briggs, Alun
Allen, Peter
Publisher
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Old School Press : Bath
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
1995
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Illustrations
Identifier
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PA6451.L23 D4 1995 [Special Collections]
Books
Old School Press
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
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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Title
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Typographia naturalis
Subject
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Nature prints
Bookplates
Typefaces
Abstract
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The paucity of studies on the history of leaf printing led Rod Cave and Geoffrey Wakeman to produce this limited edition publication of 333 copies under the Brewhouse Press imprint, run by Trevor Hickman and Rigby Graham. It contains tipped-in illustrations of this art (such as Leonardo da Vinci’s description of leaf printing) and a wonderful but very fragile real leaf cover.
Creator
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Cave, Roderick
Wakeman, Geoffrey
Underwood, Roy
Pick, James
Hickman, Trevor
Smythe, Colin
Publisher
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Brewhouse Press : Wymondham (Leics.)
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
1967
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Illustrations
Identifier
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NE1338 .CC126 [Special Collections Oversize]
Bookplates
Books
Brewhouse Press
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections
Typefaces
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
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 vanity of human wishes
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The vanity of human wishes : the tenth satire of Juvenal imitated
Subject
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Private presses
Abstract
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Samuel Johnson finished writing The Vanity of Human Wishes on 25 November 1748; it was first published 9 January 1749. This limited edition (no.128 of 200 copies) has a slightly longer publication history. The superb etchings by Denis Tegetmeier were originally done in 1929 for a book that was proposed but scrapped because of the Depression. In 1937, bookmaker Douglas Cleverdon planned to resuscitate the project. However, the War intervened. In 1969 another edition was planned but the project foundered through lack of enthusiasm. As Will Carter, designer and printer at Rampant Lion, states: ‘It is hoped that the present edition will make some amends to Denis for the fifty years that he has, with exemplary patience, awaited the publication of his etchings.’
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Johnson, Samuel
Tegetmeier, Denis
Hodgart, Matthew John Caldwell
Publisher
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Rampant Lions Press : Cambridge, England
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
1984
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Illustrations
Identifier
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PR3530 1984 [Special Collections Oversize]
Books
Etchings
Printing
Printing press
Rampant Lions Press
Special Collections
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
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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A endeavour towards the teaching of John Ruskin and William Morris
Subject
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Guild of Handicraft (London, England)
Arts and crafts movement
Private presses
Abstract
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‘The Arts and Craft movement began with the object of making useful things, of making them well and of making them beautiful; goodness and beauty were to the leaders of the movement synonymous terms.’
So wrote C. R. Ashbee (1863-1942), the designer who was instrumental in starting Essex House Press in 1898 as part of his larger Guild of Handicrafts (established 1886). With workmen from Kelmscott (and two Albion presses), Ashbee continued Morris’s ideals of a return to craftsmanship through co-operation and a meaningful engagement in work. Ashbee printed 83 books under the Essex House imprint, and this one (no. 273 of 350 copies) was the first to contain Ashbee’s own design type, Endeavour.
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Ashbee, Charles Robert
Ruskin, John
Morris, William
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Essex House Press
Date Created
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1901
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Text
Illustrations
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NK1142.AT39 [Special Collections]
Books
Essex House Press
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections
Typefaces
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
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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 Canterbury Tales
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[Specimen sheets of modern English printing on vellum]
Lamia, and other poems
Subject
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Printing
Vellum printed books
Illustration of books
Private presses
Abstract
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In 1946 the English writer and artist Robert Gibbings visited the South Pacific. Part of his journey included a stop-over at Dunedin where he met John Harris, the then University of Otago Librarian. Later as a gift, Gibbings gave the University five vellum sheets containing various sample printings that he had undertaken as owner/operator of the Golden Cockerel Press, one of the most influential of English private presses. The sheet displayed is from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, which was printed between February 1929 and March 1931. The presswork Gibbing demanded matches the fine illustration and decoration by Eric Gill, who was also an exceptional artist.
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Gill, Eric
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Golden Cockerel Press
Date Created
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1929-31
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Illustrations
Identifier
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Z250 .GL33 [Special Collections Dble Oversize]
Books
Golden Cockerel Press
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
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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Title
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The Seafarer
Subject
The topic of the resource
Private presses
Abstract
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The Anglo Saxon poem, The Seafarer, exists only in one manuscript, Exeter Cathedral Library ms. 3501, more commonly known as the Exeter Book. For a manuscript written between 970 and 990, the codex is in relatively good condition, in spite of the fact that it is missing a few leaves, has been used as a cutting board and a tea coaster, and has suffered some destructive burns on the last folio. Kevin Crossley-Holland, an avid fan of the Anglo-Saxon period, has translated this Old English elegy and employed the Danish abstract artist Inger Lawrance to create from woodcuts her image-works. It was hand-set using Albertus types by Nicolas McDowall, owner-operator of The Old Stile Press. This is no. 108 of 240, and is signed by the artist and the translator.
Creator
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Lawrance, Inger
Crossley-Holland, Kevin
Publisher
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Old Stile Press : Llandogo
Date Created
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1988
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Illustrations
Identifier
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PR1772.A2 1988 [Special Collections Oversize]
Books
Old Stile Press
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
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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Title
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One Hundred and Eleven Poems
Subject
The topic of the resource
Private presses
Abstract
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Christopher Sandford took over from Robert Gibbings at Golden Cockerel and continued the tradition of publishing books finely illustrated with wood engravings. Despite a shrinking market after the Second World War, and high operating costs, there was some experimentation. English artist Sir William Russell Flint selected and illustrated by watercolour and crayon drawing these poems by Robert Herrick (1591-1674). As he stated: ‘Every detail of this book’s design is my own – and the number of details which go to build a worthy book is astonishing. With good spirit and good care I have made the drawings and have placed them with their poems, an affectionate tribute to Herrick and a consolation to myself during anxious years.’ This superb edition is limited to 550 copies.
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Herrick, Robert
Flint, William Russell
Publisher
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Golden Cockerel Press
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
1955
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Illustrations
Identifier
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PR3510 .A17 1955 [Special Collections Oversize]
Books
Golden Cockerel Press
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
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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Title
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Laus veneris
Subject
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Engraving, British
Private presses
Abstract
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The striking line illustrations accompanying Swinburne’s Laus Veneris are by the Dunedin-born self-taught etcher and engraver, John Buckland-Wright (1897-1954). While resident in Paris, Buckland-Wright worked with Picasso; the latter’s influence evident in some of the 50 books Buckland-Wright illustrated. JBW – as he signed himself – had a long and fruitful association with the Golden Cockerel Press. This post-War production was designed by Christopher Sandford and put through the press by R.F. Parsley. It is no. 668 of 750 copies.
Creator
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Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Buckland Wright, John
Publisher
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Golden Cockerel Press : London
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
1948
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Illustrations
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PR5508 .L3 1948 [Special Collections]
Books
Engravings
Golden Cockerel Press
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections
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Title
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
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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Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey
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Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour July 13th, 1798
Subject
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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
Tintern Abbey
Authors, English
Wye, River, Valley (Wales and England)
Abstract
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The circumstances surrounding the creation of William Wordsworth’s Lines Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey are given opposite the first lines of the poem, originally written on 13 July 1798 and first appearing in the now famous Lyrical Ballads (1798). Nicolas McDowall of The Old Stile Press designed and printed this book (one of 150 copies) using Bulmer type on paper made by Frances McDowall at Llandogo, Monmouthshire. Somewhat unusually, this limited edition has an international standard book number (ISBN), a system used for identifying books and found in almost all commercially printed books).
Creator
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Wordsworth, William
Publisher
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The Old Stile Press : London
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
2002
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Illustrations
Identifier
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PR5869 .L6 2002 [Special Collections Oversize]
Books
Old Stile Press
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
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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Title
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Prayers written at Vailima
Subject
The topic of the resource
Prayers
Illumination of books and manuscripts, English
Private press books
Printing
Private presses
Abstract
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‘…As soon as our household had fallen into a regular routine, and the bonds of Samoan family life began to draw us more closely together, Tusitala [Samoan for storyteller, referring to Robert Louis Stevenson] felt the necessity of including our retainers in our evening devotions.’
So wrote Stevenson’s wife Fanny. The prayers by RLS and linocuts (executed by Catherine Kanner) are printed on Hiromi-Sansui paper that is so fine that it has been double folded to reduce the type and image biting into each other. Bonnie Thompson Norman printed this fine edition of 200 copies.
Creator
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Stevenson, Robert Louis
Kanner, Catherine
O'Mara, Allwyn
Sheller, John
Norman, Bonnie Thompson
Publisher
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Melville Press : Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
1999
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Illustrations
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PR5488.P7 1999 [Special Collections]
Books
Melville Press
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections
Windowpane Press
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
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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Title
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To Whom Else?
Subject
The topic of the resource
Private presses
Abstract
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The Seizin Press, founded by Robert Graves and Laura (Riding) Jackson in 1927, was devoted to printing original literary materials, much like Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press. It was first established in London at 35a St Peter’s Square, Hammersmith, and then moved to Deya, Majorca in 1930. The thirteen books Graves and Riding printed were not sumptuous. They were often plain format productions, convenient vehicles for their poetry and prose, and other writers such as Gertrude Stein. The binding of this poetry book is by the New Zealand born film-maker and kinetic artist, Len Lye (1901-1980). It is signed by Graves and is no. 147 of 200 copies.
Creator
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Graves, Robert
Lye, Len
Publisher
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Seizin Press : Majorca
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
1931
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Illustrations
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
PR6013.R35 T6 [Special Collections Oversize]
Books
Printing
Printing press
Seizin Press
Special Collections
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
Description
An account of the resource
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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Title
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The Funeral Oration of Pericles
Subject
The topic of the resource
Pericles, approximately 495 B.C.-429 B.C.
Private presses
Abstract
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In mid-1945, Viscount Kemsley, the newspaper magnate, bought the equipment of the Corvinus Press, after its founder, Viscount Carlow, a linguist and RAF pilot, was killed in a plane crash. Kemsley used the equipment for his Dropmore Press. Although he had previous press experience with his own Queen Anne Press, Kemsley put Dropmore under the direction of Edward Shanks. Printed by hand on an Albion press using 24 point Baskerville, the Oration is a sumptuous production, with two-colour printing and initials (not shown) by John O’Connor. This title was printed in a limited edition of 300 copies.
Creator
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Thucydides
Blakeney, Edward Henry
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Dropmore Press : London
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
1948
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Illustrations
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
DF229.T55 BL94 [Special Collections Oversize]
Books
Dropmore Press
Printing
Printing press
Special Collections