Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
The liberty bell on the Kelmscott Goudy press
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Physical
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- by J. Ben Lieberman ; with an introduction by Jack Walsdorf and an afterword by Jethro K. Lieberman and the story of the John DePol wood engraving of this famous press
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
-
- Council Bluffs, Iowa : Yellow Barn Press, 1996
- Physical Details
-
- vii, 22 pages, 1 unnumbered folded pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
- OCLC
- ocm35866622
- "This story first appeared in The black art, summer 1962"--T.p. verso.
- Limited ed. of 215 copies.
- "Set by M&H type in Frederic Goudy's 14 point Californian. The headers are in Goudy's Mediaeval cast by Theo Rehak as were the initials. The paper is Rives, a mold-made sheet from France. The book was bound at the Campbell-Logan Bindery in John DePol's pattern paper. The title-page illustration by Edward Burne-Jones is from the Chaucer. In the text "Kelmscott/Goudy" was divided by the slash. However, on the title-page and with the headers the printer (Neil Shaver) preferred the appearance without the slash. The slash may be useful, but not attractive in prominent positions." -- Colophon.
- Printed on antique white paper; quarter bound in dark blue cloth with light blue patterned paper over boards.
Subjects
- Morris, William, 1834-1896.
- Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947.
- DePol, John, 1913-2004.
- Hopkinson & Cope (Firm : London, England)
- Kelmscott Press.
- Albion Press No. 6551.
- Private presses -- Great Britain -- Anecdotes.
- Private presses -- United States -- Anecdotes.
- Hand presses -- History.
- Artists' books -- United States.