DANIEL PRESS: BRIDGES, Robert.

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A Royal Guest. First edition, number 58 of 110 copies, printed by Emily Daniel at her husband's private press, of four seventeenth-century poems, issued for Christmas 1900.Colin Franklin started his survey of Private Presses with the Daniel Press, stating that it "forms a pleasant bridge across from one to another kind of private printing". Daniel started printing from about 1845 to 1859 at Frome, Somerset, and then from 1874 until 1919 at Oxford. His activities therefore significantly predate Morris's Kelmscott Press. Franklin states that Daniel has "some right to be honoured a pioneer in the revival of printing" (Franklin, p. 23). "Daniel Press books are all rare, some of them excessively so... they are rare for us, because they were made for his friends. Some outsiders treasured these books, and after 1884 he printed for sale; no reason why the thing should not pay for itself..." (Franklin, p. 33)."Of the estimation in which the Daniel Press is held among literary men there is abundant proof from many quarters, which may perhaps best be summarized in the words which accompany a portrait of Dr. Daniel in Rothenstein's Oxford Characters... Worth printing, Worth buying, Worth reading, and Worth keeping" (Madan, p. 54)."Mrs. Daniel was 'alone entirely responsible for this production'. The poems begin 'Yet if his majesty our sovereign lord', 'Welcome all wonder in one sight', 'And art thou come, Blest Babe, and come to me?', 'As on the night before this blessed morn'..." (Madan

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