Accession number
PML 76897.9
Creator
Morris, William, 1834-1896, type designer.
Published
[Hammersmith] : [Kelmscott Press], [1890?]
Credit line
Gift of John M. Crawford, Jr., 1975.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Forms part of a group of designs, proofs, letters, etc., evidently compiled by Sydney Cockerell and concerning the early days of the Kelmscott Press and William Morris's work as typographical designer; removed from library's copy of: A note / by William Morris on his aims in founding the Kelmscott Press ; together with a short description of the press by S. C. Cockerell, & an annotated list of the books printed thereat. Hammersmith : Printed at the Kelmscott Press ; Sold by the trustees of the late William Morris, 4 March 1898 (PML 76897); with the individual items comprising this collection of accompanying materials cataloged separately.
Mounted on mat board, along with a photographic reproduction of a later design by Morris for his Golden type (see PML 76897.8).
This process block reproduction of a preliminary design by William Morris for his Golden type, reduced from an enlargement of part of a page of the Rubeus Historia Fiorentina (Venice: Jacobus Rebeus,1476).
Forms part of a group of designs, proofs, letters, etc., evidently compiled by Sydney Cockerell and concerning the early days of the Kelmscott Press and William Morris's work as typographical designer; removed from library's copy of: A note / by William Morris on his aims in founding the Kelmscott Press ; together with a short description of the press by S. C. Cockerell, & an annotated list of the books printed thereat. Hammersmith : Printed at the Kelmscott Press ; Sold by the trustees of the late William Morris, 4 March 1898 (PML 76897); with the individual items comprising this collection of accompanying materials cataloged separately.
Mounted on mat board, along with a photographic reproduction of a later design by Morris for his Golden type (see PML 76897.8).
This process block reproduction of a preliminary design by William Morris for his Golden type, reduced from an enlargement of part of a page of the Rubeus Historia Fiorentina (Venice: Jacobus Rebeus,1476).
Description
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 11.5 x 10 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Note in the hand of Sydney Cockerell in ink at bottom: Process block reduced from drawing by W.M. modified from a 5 times scale photograph from part of a page of L. Aretino's Hist. Fiorentina. (Venice Jac. Rubeus, 1476) beginning of book VII. sig.n.iii.
Provenance
Sydney Cockerell; John M. Crawford, Jr. (Crawford no. 20).
Classification
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