Transcriber’s Note:
This book contains three major sections and some end-notes, but the original did not include a table of contents.The following links will take you directly to each section:
A NOTE ON FOUNDING THE KELMSCOTT PRESS
THE IDEAL BOOK
AN ESSAY ON PRINTING
ORIGINAL END-NOTES
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THE ART AND CRAFT OF PRINTING,
BY WILLIAMMORRIS.
A NOTE BY WILLIAM MORRIS ON HIS AIMS INFOUNDING THE KELMSCOTT PRESS, TOGETHERWITH A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESS BYS. C. COCKERELL, AND AN ANNOTATED LIST OFTHE BOOKS PRINTED THEREAT.
Copyright, 1902
By H. M. O’Kane
NOTE BY WILLIAM MORRISON HIS AIMS IN FOUNDINGTHE KELMSCOTT PRESS
I began printing books withthe hope of producing some whichwould have a definite claim tobeauty, while at the same timethey should be easy to read andshould not dazzle the eye, or troublethe intellect of the reader by eccentricityof form in the letters. I have alwaysbeen a great admirer of the calligraphy ofthe Middle Ages, & of the earlier printingwhich took its place. As to the fifteenth-centurybooks, I had noticed that theywere always beautiful by force of the meretypogra