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Series of leaflets of the Kelmscott Press

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Description: Title from spine. Twelve single leaf publication announcements by the Kelmscott Press dated from 1893 to October 1, 1896. The leaflets announce current and forthcoming publications and many utilize the three distinct Kelmscott types: Golden, Troy and Chaucer. Bound together in a volume with blank interleaves. Dates supplied for some leaflets in pencil as well as occasional notes refering to the bibliographies A select bibliography of the principal modern presses, public and private in Great Britain and Ireland / G.S. Tomkinson and The Kelmscott press and William Morris master-craftsman / H. Halliday Sparling. The leaflets are mounted and bound in a volume with 3/4 black leather, marbled paper boards and marbled end papers.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1894-1896
Call number: 195323
Creator: Kelmscott Press(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown, in library as of June 2024. Bookplate of John Saks.
Dimensions: 23 cm
Associated people: Saks, John,
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[Collection of four leaflets by the Kelmscott Press]

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Title devised by cataloger. Collection of leaflets printed by the Kelmscott Press between 1891 and 1894. The first is printed "In memory of Thomas Sadler, Ph.D" who died September 12, 1891. Two leaflets concern the unveiling of of the American Memorial to Keats in the Parish Church of Hampstead, which occurred on July 16, 1894. The first of these is a program for the event and the other an invitation. The fourth leaflet consists of a printed prayer. The leaflets are mounted and bound in blue paper covered boards.

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Incomplete sheets of the Kelmscott Press Froissart's Chronicle

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Title supplied by cataloger. The publication of an English translation of Froissart's Chronicles was not completed before William Morris' death. Using the existing type, Sydney Cockerell published a 2-leaf specimen on vellum as well as a privately distributed 16 page specimen on paper which was given as a gift to friends of Morris and the Press. --Peterson, Willam S. The Kelmscott Press, p. 263-266 No t.p. With ornamental half border, florets and ornamental initial capitals, some of which are left blank. Printed in black, colophon printed in red. Text in Chaucer type, title on p.[1] in Troy type, on Batchelor handmade paper, watermarked: Perch. In two states, some with colophon printed in red: "Incomplete sheets of Froissart. 32 copies printed at the Kelmscott Press on Dec. 24, 1896, before the distribution of the type. Not for sale"; some copies printed without the colophon. Peterson, William S. Bibliography of the Kelmscott Press, D1(8)

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Incomplete sheets of the Kelmscott Press Froissart's Chronicle

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Title supplied by cataloger. The publication of an English translation of Froissart's Chronicles was not completed before William Morris' death. Using the exisiting type, Sydney Cockerell published a 2-leaf specimen on vellum as well as a privately distributed 16 page specimen on paper which was given as a gift to friends of Morris and the Press. --Peterson, Willam S. The Kelmscott Press, p. 263-266. No t.p. With ornamental half border, florets and ornamental initial capitals, some of which are left blank. Printed in black, colophon printed in red. Text in Chaucer type, title on p.[1] in Troy type, on Batchelor handmade paper, watermarked: Perch. In two states, some with colophon printed in red: "Incomplete sheets of Froissart. 32 copies printed at the Kelmscott Press on Dec. 24, 1896, before the distribution of the type. Not for sale"; some copies printed without the colophon. Peterson, William S. Bibliography of the Kelmscott Press, D1(8)

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[Scrapbook containing materials regarding William Morris and Kelmscott Press publications]

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Contains an annotated collection of newspaper and magazine clippings, book dealers' correspondence, booksellers' catalogs, book lists from the Kelmscott Press, and descriptions of rare book sales. Some deal with biographical information on Morris and were obviously collected after his death in 1896, but the predominent material concerns Kelmscott Press books.

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Photographs of Kelmscott Press and Book Bindings, (3 pieces)

Manuscripts

Note: photo of Kelmscott Press is from S C Bride Printing Library and cannot be copied.

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Sanford and Helen Berger collection of Kelmscott Press ephemera

Visual Materials

The Sanford and Helen Berger collection of Kelmscott Press ephemera contains proofs, drawings, paper samples, and additional ephemera from William Morris's Kelmscott Printing Press. The bulk of the materials date from approximately 1891 to 1898, though the collection also contains some reference files and other ephemera dating from the 1930s to the 1990s. The collection contains prints by Arts and Crafts movement artists Edward Burne-Jones, Charles M. Gere, Walter Crane, Robert Catterson-Smith, Emery Walker, William Harcourt Hooper, and others. Also included are proofs illustrated with William Morris's decorative initial and border ornamentation, and typography samples of the Golden, Troy, and Chaucer fonts. Many proofs include notes by Morris on design and text. Some proofs of Kelmscott titles included are: Beowulf, the Golden Legend, the History of Reynard the Foxe, Poems by the Way, the Recuyelle of the Historyes of Troye, the Story of the Glittering Plain, the Water of the Wondrous Isle, the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, and others. The collection also contains ephemera with notes by Morris's secretary Sir Sydney C. Cockerell, in addition to circulars, order forms, certificates, and paper samples watermarked with Morris's flower and perch designs.

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