Who founded the Kelmscott Press in 1891?
"painters with whom he was associated, referred frequently to medieval motifs. In 1891 he founded the Kelmscott Press, which by the time it closed in 1898 had produced over fifty works using traditional printing methods, a hand-driven press and hand-made paper. They included his masterpiece, an edition of the ""Works of Geoffrey Chaucer"" with illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones. Morris also invented three distinctive typefaces – Golden, Troy, and Chaucer, with the text being framed with intricate floral borders similar to illuminated medieval manuscripts. His work inspired many small private presses in the following century. Morris’s aesthetic and social values became"
"In the late 1870s, Walker befriended William Morris, with whom he shared both Socialist beliefs and a keen interest in printing. They lived near to each other. Walker's expertise and his collection of 16th-century typefaces inspired Morris to create the Kelmscott Press. After Morris' death, Walker set up his own printing enterprise, the Doves Press, with bookbinder T. J. Cobden Sanderson which in turn inspired the private presses of the 20th century. The capital for the enterprise which was £1,600 was supplied by Anne Cobden-Sanderson. The font that they created was intended to be shared. By 1906 the partners had"
"a leading force in the Arts and Crafts Movement. The Kelmscott Press influenced much of the fine press movement in England and the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It brought the need for books that were aesthetic objects as well as words to the attention of the reading and publishing worlds. At Kelmscott Press the perfection of book-making was under his constant supervision and practical assistance. It was his ambition to produce a perfect work to restore all the beauty of illuminated lettering, richness of gilding and grace of binding that used to make a"
"suggested that he take up book-binding. They were already in the social circle of William Morris and Jane Burdon, and it was her husband who first coined the term ""Arts and Crafts"". Morris had already established the Kelmscott Press when Anne's husband and a photographer named Emery Walker agreed to found a press. The press was named the Doves Press and the profits were to be shared, but it was Anne who put up the capital of £1600 to start the business. Crucially, it was agreed that should the partnership end, Walker would be entitled to a copy of the"
"with them on their holiday to Bruges, Belgium. However, by this point Morris' friendship with Rossetti had seriously eroded, and in July 1874 their acrimonious falling out led Rossetti to leave Kelmscott, with Morris' publisher F.S. Ellis taking his place. With the company's other partners drifting off to work on other projects, Morris decided to consolidate his own control of the Firm and become sole proprietor and manager. In March 1875, he paid £1000 each in compensation to Rossetti, Brown, and Marshall, although the other partners waived their claims to financial compensation. That month, the Firm was officially disbanded and"
"premises of the Kelmscott Press, before relocating to the neighbouring No. 14 in May, that same month in which the company was founded.When the press closed in 1898 it had produced over 50 works. Devoted to the production of books which he deemed beautiful, Morris was artistically influenced by the illustrated manuscripts and early printed books of Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Before publishing its first work, Morris ensured that he had mastered the techniques of printing and secured supplies of hand-made paper and vellum which would be necessary for production. Over the next seven years, they would publish 66"
"William Morris's Kelmscott Press. The firm was the American publisher of Oscar Wilde's ""Salomé"", illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley; ""The Yellow Book"" periodical, also illustrated by Beardsley; and ""The Black Riders and Other Lines"" by Stephen Crane. He is known to have traveled. Beaumont Newhall states that he visited Algiers, possibly as a result of reading Wilde and Gide. There is a photo ""Portrait of F. Holland Day in Arab Costume, 1901"" by Frederick H. Evans. He was a friend of Louise Imogen Guiney and Ralph Adams Cram, and member of social clubs, such as the ""Visionists"", formed around shared interests"
"Premier Colin Barnett, and could be seen on their balconies giving hope to fellow residents that their properties were safe. Kelmscott, Western Australia Kelmscott is a southeastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia in the local government area of the City of Armadale. It is southeast of Perth along the Albany Highway. Kelmscott was one of the very early towns established in the Swan River Colony and was named after Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, the birthplace of the first Anglican clergyman in the colony, Thomas Hobbes Scott (1783–1860). The suburb of Kelmscott is bisected by the Canning River. On the western side of"
"Kelmscott, Western Australia Kelmscott is a southeastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia in the local government area of the City of Armadale. It is southeast of Perth along the Albany Highway. Kelmscott was one of the very early towns established in the Swan River Colony and was named after Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, the birthplace of the first Anglican clergyman in the colony, Thomas Hobbes Scott (1783–1860). The suburb of Kelmscott is bisected by the Canning River. On the western side of the river is the flat coastal plain upon which most of Perth is situated. This area includes the Stargate Kelmscott"
"at his Kelmscott Press. Printers of the period noted the confusion of the apparently tautologous name, one saying that it reminded him of a joke about a man who ordered café au lait with milk. By 1903 Old Style Antique was sold by American Type Founders under the new name of Bookman Old Style, with an added 'italic'. ATF did not offer a normal italic, instead featuring an oblique, or ""sloped roman"", in which the letters are simply slanted. Serif typefaces which use an oblique are now quite rare, but the style was relatively common for display typefaces in the"
"selling stylish books. Morris created a market for works of graphic design in their own right and a profession for this new type of art. The Kelmscott Press is characterized by an obsession with historical styles. This historicism was the first significant reaction to the state of nineteenth-century graphic design. Morris' work, along with the rest of the Private Press movement, directly influenced Art Nouveau. The term ""graphic design"" first appeared in print in the 1922 essay ""New Kind of Printing Calls for New Design"" by William Addison Dwiggins, an American book designer in the early 20th century. Raffe's ""Graphic"
"printing in two colours is more expensive and time consuming, rubrication has tended to be reserved for sacred and liturgical books or luxury editions of other works. William Morris's medievally inspired typography for the Kelmscott Press at the end of the 19th century included chapter titles and other accents in red, or rarely blue, ink, and was influential on small press art typography associated with the Arts and Crafts movement in both England and the United States, particularly the work of the Ashendene, Doves, and Roycroft Presses. Around 1900, rubrication was incorporated into a Red letter edition of the King"
"Merrymount Press Merrymount Press was a printing press in Boston, Massachusetts, founded by Daniel Berkeley Updike in 1893. He was committed to creating books of superior quality and believed that books could be simply designed, yet beautiful. Upon his death in 1941, the Press was taken over by his partner John Bianchi, but ceased operations in 1949. Updike and his Merrymount Press left a lasting impression on the printing industry, and today Updike is considered one of the most distinguished printers of the twentieth century. Stanley Morison, the typographer responsible for creating the ubiquitous Times New Roman, had this to"
"greater appreciation of the country than he had on his previous trip. In April 1879 Morris moved the family home again, this time renting an 18th-century mansion on Hammersmith's Upper Mall in West London. Owned by the novelist George MacDonald, Morris would name it Kelmscott House and re-decorate it according to his own taste. In the House's grounds he set up a workshop, focusing on the production of hand-knotted carpets. Excited that both of his homes were along the course of the River Thames, in August 1880 he and his family took a boat trip along the river from Kelmscott"
"1893 George F. Franklin started publishing ""The Enterprise"", later published by Thomas P. Mahammitt. For Easter, 1896, Mahammitt's ""Enterprise"" released a special edition which was widely commended and whose contributors included Ella L. Mahammitt, Mrs. E. E. Guy, J. A. Childs, Josephine Sloan Yates, Mrs. E. Turner, Comfort Baker, Victoria Earle Matthews, and Margaret James Murray (wife of Booker T. Washington). ""The Enterprise"" was owned by Thomas and operated by his wife, Ella, with Mrs. Al. Robinson the typographer, and was Omaha's leading black paper in the 1890s and 1900s. Its success allowed it to increase in size from a"
"Kelmscott Manor Kelmscott Manor is a limestone manor house in the Cotswolds village of Kelmscott, in West Oxfordshire, southern England. It dates from around 1570, with a late 17th-century wing, and is listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England. It is situated close to the River Thames, and it is frequently flooded. The nearest town is Faringdon in the Vale of the White Horse. The house was built by local farmer Thomas Turner and remained in the family for many generations. After George Turner died in 1734, the house was rented out. The house was originally called"
"in publications around the country. Van Vechten was highly influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement and the hand-made aesthetic of William Morris and Britain's Kelmscott Press. Under Van Vechten's leadership, the Philosopher Press put out finely printed and bound limited editions of works by such popular authors as Samuel Johnson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Alfred Lord Tennyson. The Arts and Crafts influence is particularly evident in Van Vechten's extensive use of stylized floral decorations and illuminated capital letters. Van Vechten's books—many of which she signed—were (and still are) widely admired for"
"""Weir of Hermiston"" (1896) by Robert Louis Stevenson, and the first translation into English of Marcel Proust's novel ""À la recherche du temps perdu"" (""Remembrance of Things Past"", C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, 1922), amongst others. In 1946, the company took over the running of the Hogarth Press, founded in 1917 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Active as an independent publishing house until 1969, when it merged with Jonathan Cape, it published broadly in the field of literature, including novels and poetry. It is not connected, except in the loosest historical fashion, with Pickering & Chatto Publishers. Norah Smallwood was appointed to"
"printed ephemera in the form of catalogues and prospectuses for its publications, and published ""Book Handbook"", a bibliophile magazine which developed into ""The Book Collector"" (a project with which Fleming was heavily involved at this period). Dropmore Press The Dropmore Press was a British private press founded in 1945 by the newspaper-owner Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley. Kemsley acquired the type, paper-stock, printing equipment and press-man of the Corvinus Press, which closed in 1945, following the death of its owner Viscount Carlow in the previous year. He named it after his home, Dropmore Park, near Taplow. The Press was run"
"in the early 1920s. In 1924, his book ""The Kelmscott Press and William Morris"" was published, and he died later in the year. Henry Halliday Sparling Henry Halliday Sparling (1860 – 9 September 1924) was a British journalist and socialist activist. Sparling became a socialist in 1878, and soon began lecturing on the topic. He began writing for ""Progress"" in 1884, and joined the Socialist League, serving on its executive, including a stint as secretary, and assisting William Morris with editing ""Commonweal"" from 1885 to 1890. Sparling married Morris' daughter, May, in 1890, but their marriage broke down in 1894"
"Somerville College, Oxford where she met Flora Grierson. In 1929 she published a translation with introduction to ""The Secret History of Henrietta, Princess of England, first wife of Philippe, Duc d'Orléans, together with Memoirs of the Court of France for the Years 1688-1689"". In 1951 Samson published her ""Introduction to Woodstock"", with drawings by Iain Macnab. When Shelmerdine died in 1994, the death announcement in ""The Times"" described her as ""Founder of the Samson Press and lifelong friend of the late Flora Grierson"". Samson Press The Samson Press was a small letterpress printing business or private press run by Joan"
"in 1998 from the Brown Publishing Company, the company founded by Clarence J. Brown. When Thomson decided to exit the newspaper business in 2000, the papers were sold to Cox Communications, along with ten other papers, including the daily ""Middletown Journal"" and Ohio's oldest weekly,"" The Western Star"", effective September 2, 2000. In August 2002, Cox announced it would sell the Germantown and Miamisburg papers and shutter the Franklin and Springboro papers, which were established in 1872 and 1976, respectively. However, Cox sold all four papers to the newly formed Miller Publishing Company on November 1, 2002. Donald Miller was"
"Golden Type The Golden Type is a serif font designed by artist William Morris for his fine book printing project, the Kelmscott Press, in 1890. It is an ""old-style"" serif font, based on type designed by engraver and printer Nicolas Jenson in Venice around 1470. It is named for the ""Golden Legend"", which was intended to be the first book printed using it. The original design has neither an italic nor a bold weight, as neither of these existed in Jenson's time. Morris's aim in the Kelmscott Press was to revive the style of early printing and medieval manuscripts, and"
"founders of Kenny's Bookshop and Art Gallery, which opened in 1942. Tom 'Cork' Kenny Tom 'Cork' Kenny, Irish journalist, editor and founder of the ""Connacht Tribune"", c.1880-c.1950. Kenny was a native of County Cork who moved to Galway early in the 1900s. He established the ""Connacht Tribune"" newspaper in 1909, which has been in print ever since. In 1919, he managed to reach Derrygimlagh bog before the correspondent of the Daily Mail, who had been waiting for the arrival of Alcock and Brown. Kenny instead made his way out to Clifden and sold his scoop internationally. His son, Desmond Kenny,"
"firm grew deeper in debt, Clemens was forced to shut down the business having formally declared bankruptcy on April 18, 1894. The firms most productive years, although to no avail financially, took place from 1891 to 1893. Notable authors published, including Clemens, were Leo Tolstoy, Henry George, and Walt Whitman. Charles L. Webster and Company In 1884, author and journalist Samuel Clemens, popularly known as Mark Twain, founded the subscription publishing firm of Charles L. Webster and Company. The firm was named after Clemens' niece’s husband Charles L. Webster whom Clemens appointed the firm's business director. The formation of the"
"added to the farmyard. In the 19th century mechanical threshing superseded manual threshing, so the barn's threshing floor lost its original purpose. The small doorways in the north and south gable walls were replaced with ones large enough for wagons. Other buildings were added to the surrounding farmyard. From 1871 William Morris (1834–96) rented Kelmscott Manor, north of Great Coxwell. He called the barn ""as noble as a cathedral"" and brought many of his guests to see it. Ernest Cook (1865–1955) acquired numerous estates including Coleshill. Cook left his estates to the National Trust, which thus has owned the barn"
"1895 until 1919 this Press produced books in the Kelmscott Press tradition of the Arts and Crafts Movement. George Kynoch's Kynoch Press (1876–1981) was a Birmingham printing house that substantially contributed to the development of a British typography. The teacher Leonard Jay (1888–1963) made the Birmingham School of Printing a profound influence on a generation of typographers, and set the pattern for printing education worldwide. More recent small-press printers included F.E.Pardoe and David Wishart. Robert Dudley Best (1892–1984), managing director of the lighting factory, Best & Lloyd, designed the ""Bestlite"" adjustable table lamp, which was first produced in 1930 and"
"year old Louis made his twenty-nine year old lawyer uncle, Isadore Abrahrun, editor. The paper was politically republican, and rivaled the ""Enterprise"". Louis Meyer sold the Sonoma County Tribune in 1897 to Frank W. Cooke. It was at this time (March 11, 1897) that the paper's name changed to the Healdsburg Tribune. Cooke was publisher of the Tribune during the 1906 earthquake. The trembler destroyed the office and plant located on West Street (Healdsburg Avenue), next to the Odd Fellows building. He rebuilt the office and plant further north on West Street. Cooke published the Tribune until 1908, when he"
"Dropmore Press The Dropmore Press was a British private press founded in 1945 by the newspaper-owner Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley. Kemsley acquired the type, paper-stock, printing equipment and press-man of the Corvinus Press, which closed in 1945, following the death of its owner Viscount Carlow in the previous year. He named it after his home, Dropmore Park, near Taplow. The Press was run by a committee of directors, who selected texts and oversaw the work of the press-man, A. H. Cardew. Kemsley and his fellow directors, among whom Edward Shanks was perhaps the most active, attempted to run the"
"owner. In 1858, Denny sold his interest and left town. The new owner was Dr. James Scott, who served in the Ohio General Assembly, followed by William H. Corwin, son of the founder of Lebanon, and, by the late 1860s, Seth W. Brown, an attorney who later served as Warren County prosecutor. The paper at this time was a Republican journal. On January 19, 1871, Brown sold to William C. McClintock (born 1845) and Clements Hardy. McClintock assumed sole ownership on January 16, 1873. He published the paper, then a seven-column quarto, and introduced steam printing presses. He owned the"
"Amos Anderson Amos Anderson (3 September 1878, Kimito, Finland – 2 April, 1961, Kimito, Finland) was the owner of Finland's largest Swedish-language Hufvudstadsbladet newspaper and a patron of the arts. Amos Anderson grew up in the Southwestern Archipelago of Finland and studied business in Turku. He started his career in insurance, and spent two years in continental Europe studying finance and insurance. He started in press in 1905 by publishing a professional magazine in insurance area. His career with daily newspapers started in 1911, and in 1909 he founded a printing house together with Viktor Ek and J. O. Wasastjerna."
"paper until circa 1893 when ownership was assumed by a corporation, the Western Star Publishing Company, which was controlled by McClintock until 1907, when John M. Mulford took over and owned it until 1921. In May 1902, a linotype machine to set type was introduced. On September 6, 1923, the Brown Publishing Company, the company owned by Congressman Clarence J. Brown, bought the paper and owned it until 1998. Brown's first act was to appoint as editor and publisher Gardner H. Townsley (circa 1897-1967), whose claim to fame was having been the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale's college roommate. He expanded"
"Macmillan Publishers Macmillan Publishers Ltd (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group) is an international publishing company owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. It has offices in 41 countries worldwide and operates in more than thirty others. Macmillan was founded in 1843 by Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, two brothers from the Isle of Arran, Scotland. Daniel was the business brain, while Alexander laid the literary foundations, publishing such notable authors as Charles Kingsley (1855), Thomas Hughes (1859), Francis Turner Palgrave (1861), Christina Rossetti (1862), Matthew Arnold (1865) and Lewis Carroll (1865). Alfred Tennyson joined the list in 1884, Thomas Hardy in 1886"