The Private Press

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Excerpt from The Private Press: A Study in Idealism, To Which Is Added a Bibliography of the Essex House PressHr. Prince made new dies from my designs. Ink and vellum also were obtained from the same sources as of old, and the Kelmscott traditions carried on as systematically as possible. When the Guild of Handicraft moved from London to the little town of Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds, the Press, still retaining the name, was moved with the rest of the Guild's workshops into fite old silk mill, to which the name of Essex House was given, and here its work was carried on till its removal to the Norman Chapel close by, where this book with others of the later issues have been printed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.