First page of The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin, performed by The Kelmscott Press. A Dream of John Ball, tekening door Edward Burne-Jones. Druk: The Kelmscott Press
The Kelmscott Press was an English printing and publishing company, founded by William Morris, known for the Arts and Crafts Movement. In 1891 Morris began with one of his last projects; printing books with high quality. He had long been annoyed by the poor quality of print in his life. He strived for a printing company that would approach the magnificence of medieval printers, such as William Caxton.
The first book that The Kelmscott Press was to publish was the translation of Caxton's The Golden Legend of Voragine. In his home in Hammersmith, Morris had set up a hand press and only made use of handmade paper. But with the paper it did not work out well and he decided to print the booklet The Story of the Glittering Plain as the first edition.
All books of this new print shop had a limited edition and were obviously intended for the better located. The booklet of the second book Poems by the Way was 300 copies. His books with edges and initials of himself and illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones, Walter Crane and Charles March Gere were soon known.
In the seven-year existence of the Kelmscott Press, 53 expenses were created. A selection of books published Literature
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