 I began printing books with the hope of producing some which would have a definite claim to beauty, while at the same time they should be easy to read and should not dazzle the eye, or trouble the intellect of the reader by eccentricity of form in the...  The Quarterly Review - Page 498edited by - 1899Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1899 - 608 pages
...' Love is Enough.' None of these were used. In 1890 he began his work for the Kelmscott Press, the outcome of many years' dissatisfaction with existing...beautiful by force of the mere typography. . . . After a wbile I felt that I must have a Gothic as well as a Roman fount ; and herein the task I set myself... | |
 | Arthur Pabst, Karl Hoffacker, Fritz Heilwag - 1899 - 260 pages
...HIS AIMS IN FOUNDING THEKELMSCOTTPRESS^^t BEGAN printing books with thehopeofproducingsomewhich would have a definite claim to beauty, while at the same time they should be easy to read and should notdazzletheeye.ortrou' ble the intellect of the reader by eccentri' city of form in the letters. I... | |
 | 1900 - 1172 pages
...IN FOUNDING THEKELMSCOTTPRESS^M» BEGAN printing books with the hope of producing some which would have a definite claim to beauty, while at the same...be easy to read and should not dazzle the eye, or trou' the intellect of the reader by ccccntri« city of form in the letters. I have always been a great... | |
 | William Younger Fletcher - 1902 - 544 pages
...in his own words. ' I began printing books,' he writes, 'with the hope of producing some which would have a definite claim to beauty, while at the same...the reader by eccentricity of form in the letters.' Mr. Morris, who died at Kelmscott House on the 3rd of October 1896, collected a fine and extensive... | |
 | Gutenberg-Gesellschaft - 1902 - 550 pages
...FOUNDING THEKELMSCOTTPRESS^^ !""Sj BEGAN printing books with i thehope of producing some which • would have a definite claim to ! beauty, while at the same...the eye, or trouble the intellect of the reader by eccentrix city of form in the letters. I have always been a great admirer of the calligraphy of the... | |
 | Theodore Low De Vinne - 1902 - 524 pages
...1), Morris makes this statement: "I began printing books with the hope of producing some which would have a definite claim to beauty, while at the same time they would be easy to read, and should not dazzle the eye or trouble the Intellect of the reader by eccentricity... | |
 | 1907 - 298 pages
...AIMS IN FOUNDING THEKELMSCOTTPRESS^^ BEGAN printing books with thehope of producing some which would have a definite claim to beauty, while at the same time they should be easy to read and should notdazzletheeye,ortrou' ble the intellect of the reader by eccentrix city of form in the letters. I... | |
 | 1908 - 534 pages
...the Kelmscott Press," he said: "I began printing books with the hope of producing some which would have a definite claim to beauty, while at the same time they would be easy to read, and should not dazzle the eye or trouble the intellect of the reader by eccentricity... | |
 | E. St. Elmo Lewis - 1908 - 996 pages
...wrote of his work: William I began printing books with the hope of producing some which Morris'i would have a definite claim to beauty, while at the same time they should be easy Id«»li to read and should not dazzle the eye, or trouble the intellect of the reader by eccentricity... | |
 | E. St. Elmo Lewis - 1908 - 1002 pages
...wrote of his work: William I began printing books with the hope of producing some which Morris'i would have a definite claim to beauty, while at the same time they should be easy H«»l» to reaj an(j should not dazzle the eye, or trouble the intellect of the reader by eccentricity... | |
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