... to commercial exigencies.” Aims in founding the Kelmscott Press, William Morris, 1895 Interesting how the original post asked only ...

Forum topic - DanGayle - 14 Feb 2007 - 10:19am - 73 comments - 0 attachments

... typeface designed by William Morris and used by him at his Kelmscott Press. -- K. Which was stolen by some US foundry and called ...

Forum topic - sean - 19 Jan 2003 - 12:31am - 6 comments - 0 attachments

... in the last room: a glass case containing eight or nine Kelmscott Press books. These haven't been mentioned in any review I read, and most of ...

Forum topic - andrew_fall - 22 Sep 2003 - 1:40am - 3 comments - 0 attachments

... Crafts movement in England named William Morris founded Kelmscott Press. He was an admirer of Jenson’s Roman and drew his own somewhat darker ...

Forum topic - jason - 5 Aug 2008 - 9:36am - 11 comments - 1 attachment

... essay Robin Kinross has recently put up on his Hyphen Press site to accompany its recent realease of the Christopher Burke book on ... paper in emulation of the new styles made popular by the Kelmscott and Ashendene presses. By the way, yes you can cut the shape of a ...

Forum topic - enne_son - 20 Sep 2007 - 3:31pm - 269 comments - 0 attachments

... at the Vancouver Public Library is a small display of Kelmscott Press book collection that is maintained by the library's Special ...

News - Jon Whipple - 13 Feb 2004 - 3:05pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... on the metal font Subiaco? It’s from the Ashendene Press. I’ll post samples later today. It’s another face like ... The Subiaco type seems to have been used in the Ashendene Press edition of Dante’s Inferno in 1902. Paul Shaw says that the ... good printing through an inspiring afternoon spent at the Kelmscott Press in 1895.” ...

Forum topic - Eben Sorkin - 27 Mar 2008 - 1:12pm - 11 comments - 0 attachments

... some amazing things as well including a complete run of Kelmscott books and other British private press works. http://ublib.buffalo.edu/pl/ UB also has a large Polish ...

Forum topic - Eben Sorkin - 26 Apr 2008 - 11:02pm - 3 comments - 0 attachments

... and calligraphic categories, as does the similar Doves Press font. Goodchild , by Nick Shinn , and its headline companion ... to hairlines, culminating in the Didones . The Kelmscott Press and Golden types of William Morris are the best known ...

Wiki - raph - 1 Nov 2006 - 1:30pm - 0 comments

... Robert Ashbee b. Isleworth, UK Took over Kelmscott Press in 1896 following death of William Morris to found Essex House Press ...

Wiki - Jared Benson - 17 Jan 2006 - 12:01pm - 0 comments