The Private Presses / Colin Franklin and John Turner

Identifier:REF.PM.2167

Dimensions:378 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Copyright dates:1969

Copyright dates:1991

Publication dates:1991

Subjects: Printing -- History., Printing presses -- History.

Description:"This book is the only one of its kind to trace this history and development of... presses, publishers and some of the finest examples of printing of English books that has never been known. This book also contains an up-to-date bibliography... [which] contains all the books discussed in Colin Franklin's text." -- book jacket front panel Second edition. Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Author's note to the Second Edition -- The Daniel Press and nineteenth-century Oxford -- The Kelmscott Press and William Morris -- Ashendene and the Qualities of a Gentelman -- Essex House and Guild Socialism -- Vale, Eragny and a link with the Aesthetic Movement -- The Doves Press and High Idealism -- Gregynog and Gogmagog -- Golden Cockerel and Shakespeare Head -- Et Cetera -- Collecting -- Select Bibliography - Author Index -- Title Index