Doves press wordsworth william (1 risultati)

A Doves Press publication comprising poems by William Wordsworth, almost all of which were composed between the years 1798-1807. After establishing the Doves Bindery in 1893, Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson partnered with Emery Walker to found the Doves Press in 1901. Alongside the Kelmscott, Ashendene and Vale presses it is considered one of the cornerstones of the Golden Age of Private Press, drawing heavily on the spirit of the Arts & Crafts Movement that flowered at the turn of the century. The two partners, along with Sydney Cockerell, created type based on Nicolas Jenson's Roman type (1470s), named the 'Doves Type.' Unfortunately the relationship between the two partners deteriorated, resulting in said type being famously dumped in the Thames, where it languished until 2014, when it was rescued and subsequently digitalised. One of 200 copies on paper; small 4to; printed in red & black, bookplate of C.W.S. Goodger to front pastedown; original limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt, boards bowed and spotted; 230, [1] pp. Provenance: C.W.S. Goodger (bookplate). …