Some thoughts on the ornamented mss. of the Middle Ages: PB 24-2004

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Titles

Some thoughts on the ornamented mss. of the Middle Ages

Maker(s)

Author: Morris, William
Publisher: Press of the Woolly Whale
Writer: Cary, Melbert Brinckerhoff

Entities

Letter (correspondence)

Description

By William Morris ; printed on his Albion hand press, with an account of its travels from the closing of the Kelmscott Press to the present day ; issued on the one-hundredth anniversary of William Morris' birth, March 24th, 1934.

"A brief account of the wanderings of Albion Press no. 6551 ..." (p. [11]-20) signed: Melbert B. Cary.
Letter tipped in: Melbert B. Cary (Press of the Woolly Whale) to C. H. St. John Hornby dated 6th June 1934.

20, [2] p ; 25 cm.

Place(s) associated

New York

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1934

Note

"This memorial volume ... is the first book to be hand printed on his Kelmscott 'Chaucer' Press by the Press of the Woolly Whale. The illustration of the Press is from a careful drawing by Warren Chappell. Set by hand in the original English Caslon Old Face 16 point, a modest number of copies (besides four on vellum) have been printed damp on Arnold Unbleached by George W. Van Vechten, Jr."--Colophon. Quarter bound in vellum, gold stamped, with grey paper sides blind stamped with an impression of the Press on the front cover.