Fine Printing
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Colour Printing in the Nineteenth Century
This web site was designed to accompany an exhibition at the University of Delaware Library. It documents the development of colour printing as used in book illustration. Images are provided from some of the books in the original exhibition.
The View from the Page
The original View from the Page site has disappeared. This is an archived site so some of the images are no longer there but the information in the text is still relevant and well worth reading.
William Morris - A Note on his Aims in founding the Kelmscott Press
This is a digital copy of an essay written by William Morris in 1895 in which he outlined his goals for book production.
A Short History and Description of the Kelmscott Press
This account of the founding of the Kelmscott Press was written by Sydney Cockerell in 1898.
Key examples
Kelmscott Press
This page, from the special Collections library at the University of Michigan, discusses the Kelmscott Press, with particular emphasis being placed on the development of Morris' typefaces and decorativions.
Typographic exemplars - The Kelmscott Chaucer
This web page provides images of several pages of the Kelmscott Chaucer, showing typeface, layout, illustrations and decorations. Although the images are of single pages, some of the scans provide a glimpse of the facing page so you get some sense of Morris' focus on the design of an opening.
Beardsley's Illustrations for Le Morte Darthur
Samples pages from Livres d'Artiste
Bookmaking interlude 4
Sewing on tapes
This is the technique used for a traditional case bound (ie hard cover book) where the tapes are covered up by the covers, spine and end papers. It is also possible to create an exposed spine version where strips of leather, decorative tape or other materials are used in place of linen tape. Another variation involves the use of cords rather than tapes, as seen in traditional leather bindings.
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