Selected Poems of William Morris deluxe edition

Description from Suntup Website

The edition is edited—and includes an introduction—by William S. Peterson, whose scholarship has shaped both the modern understanding of William Morris and the study of fine printing and design.

Designed by Jerry Kelly, the book is printed in two colors throughout by Juan Pascoe at Taller Martín Pescador in Tacámbaro, Mexico. The text is printed on dampened Velké Losiny handmade paper using an Ostrander Seymour hand press, in keeping with Morris’s own principles of craftsmanship and production. The text is handset in hot-metal Monotype Poliphilus and Blado, cast by Bradley Hutchinson at his foundry in Austin, Texas, with display type set in foundry-cast Gilgengart.

The frontispiece portrait of William Morris was drawn by Hermann Zapf and engraved by hand in lead in 1948 by August Rosenberger, the punch cutter and Zapf collaborator, and is printed from the original metal electrotype plate used to print the image in 1949. The pencil drawing of William Morris, previously unpublished, is by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Morris’s Pre-Raphaelite colleague. It is reproduced courtesy of the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library.

Published in an edition of one hundred seventeen copies, fourteen of which are hors commerce. The edition measures 7¼ by 11 inches, is press-numbered and signed by William S. Peterson and Juan Pascoe.

Twenty-six Deluxe state copies, designated A-Z, are handbound in full leather by Jace Graf at Cloverleaf Studio in Austin, Texas. The spine features raised bands and endsheets are Hahnemühle Bugra. The cover is stamped in gold with one of William Morris’s Kelmscott Press paper watermarks—the letters “W” and “M” set on either side of a central floral device—originally designed for the handmade papers produced for the Press and now one of the most recognizable emblems of Morris’s bookmaking.

The Deluxe state can be seen as an homage to Morris’s values: a handcrafted, materially rich, and historically grounded book object. The edition is housed in a cloth covered clamshell enclosure with velour lined trays and a letterpress printed spine label.

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