Printing and Arts and Crafts publications

Envelope addressed to Elizabeth de Haas containing a booklet titled 'The Typographical Adventure of William Morris' which relates to an exhibition presented by The William Morris Society on William Morris' work in typography and printing, probably in 1957. It gives details of Morris' Work, his publications and collaborators, including Emery Walker, and information about other printers associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement; three articles about William Morris’ printing and typography relating to the William Morris Society’s 1957 exhibition, 'The Typographical Adventure of William Morris': 'William Morris by Daylight' reprint, first published by The British Printer, Sept 1957, 'William Morris, and the result of his 'little typographic adventure', reprint, first published by linotype and machinery limited, London, Nov 1957, Printing and Graphic, The Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont, Volume VI, Number 2, June 1958, contains an article by Carl Purington Rollins titled ‘Morris’s Typographical Adventure’; An article titled 'Wrightwick Manor - a William Morris Period Piece' by R Glynn Grylls (Lady Mander), possibly published by National Magazine Co, London, 1962; ‘Architecture and William Morris’, By Dr Nikolaus Pevsner, reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, March 1957; three articles from the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, April 1957, on William Lethaby, who worked with William Morris; Article titled 'Dating Morris Patterns' by Peter Floud The Architectural Review, July 1959; pamphlet on the Garamond Type from the Cloiseter Press, Heaton, Mersey; Pamphlet titled 'Memorandum On a Proposed Synthetic Course' by T D A Cockerell, Boulder, Colorado, Nov 1929; papers relating to a dinner and celebrations for the four hundredth anniversary of Cambridge printing, 10 Nov 1921, which was attended by Emery Walker; photograph of biblical prints from a publication, possibly by Edward Burne Jones.

Record ID:EMW/1/10/6
Date:1921 - ca. 1980s
Date:1921 - ca. 1980s

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