Word: kelmscott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...native of Lafayette, Ind. (where he was an art-classmate at Purdue of George Ade and John T. McCutcheon), Bruce Rogers decided on book-designing instead of painting when he saw the first books of William Morris' famed Kelmscott Press. In the '90s, when Bruce Rogers started his career, U. S. books were as dingily printed as they were apt to be turgidly written. They provided an aesthetic sensation for readers not unlike that of walking along a muddy road in the dark. Bruce Rogers' imaginative, lucid, unaffected craftsmanship let air and light into book pages. Other...
...Marlborough-on-Hudson, N. Y., the 150-year-old workshop of Frederic William Goudy, No. 1 U. S. type designer, caught fire and burned to a cinder. Destroyed were: the press on which William Morris printed his Kelmscott Chaucer; the specially made precision instruments with which Goudy made the matrices for his type; his stock of 3,000 to 4,000 matrices. Twenty of his most-famed type faces (he has designed 107)* never having been cast, can never be reproduced. Said 73-year-old Frederic Goudy: "A body blow...
...were being dispersed last week another sale of even greater interest to book collectors and professional patriots was being held. Assembled from various owners was an important book collection. There were second, third and fourth folio Shakespeares, Mary Baker Eddy's own copy of Science and Health, a Kelmscott Chaucer and a number of letters from Warren Gamaliel Harding and Thomas Jefferson. But the prize item was No. 264, an Italian leather frame holding a yellow sheet of paper, the original autograph manuscript of "The Star Spangled Banner...
There was Wilde, in the days after the peacock blue, the velveteens, and the shirt-cuffs turned over his jacket sleeves had been renounced. There was the gathering in the old stable beside Kelmscott House, where Wilde held forth. "I have never answered letters," he said, "I have known men come to London full of bright prospects, and seen them complete wrecks in a few months through a habit of answering letters." And again, "Mr. Bernard Shaw has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." And of course William Morris was there, and sometimes Shaw, and Russian anarchists...
...vade mecum of everything worth keeping by in life, it is the memories of men known. This is the Vagabond's creed. Today his spirit will haunt old McKinlock, and perhaps will gain, as William Butler Yeats himself was the gainer from those afternoons at the stable beside Kelmscott House...