KELMSCOTT PRESS: MORRIS, William.

£22,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Gothic Architecture: A Lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. First edition, one of 45 copies printed on vellum, of the author's examination of architecture and its relationship with art, literature, and politics.The entire first edition was printed in public during the Arts and Crafts Exhibition at the New Gallery in London, "under the eyes of an interested and constantly renewed crowd, whose presence imposed a severe strain upon the pressman Collins's Celtic modesty" (Sparling, p. 87). It was also the first Kelmscott Press book printed in sextodecimo. There were also 1,500 copies on paper.

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