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Colebrook: William Morris. 1989

Colebrook, Frank (ed.); Peterson, William S. (ed.)

William Morris: Master-Printer. A lecture given on the evening of November 27, 1896 to students of the printing school, St. Bride Foundation Institution in London.

Yellow Barn Press, Council Bluffs, IA, 1989

CHF 54.–

A fine edition of this important lecture by William Morris. With a gift inscription from the editor William S. Peterson.

Description: Gray-blue paper over boards, with titling on spine, reprinted Kelmscott Press printer’s mark on the front cover. Octavo: 23 × 15 cm; pp. x, [2], 34, [1]. Portrait frontispiece and 2 plates engraved by John de Pol.

Ref.: Walsdorf, The Yellow Barn Press, A16

Condition: Spine lightly sunned, else a very good, bright and clean copy.

Notes: This copy is identical to the letterpress copies of the original edition. Walsdorf writes that the lecture from which the text of this book is taken is one of the ‘most balanced, nonpartisian appraisals of Morris as a printer.’

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