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The artistry of arts and crafts printed items
From: Antiques & Collecting Magazine
Date: 20020201
Author:Gilbert, Anne
USUALLY WHEN we think of the Arts and Crafts movement, furniture, pottery and metal wares come to mind, but the books and other printed items were also produced, and can still be obtained at modest prices, ranging from $200 for an Elbert Hubbard, Roycrofters booklet, A Message to Garcia, to $1,840 for a William Morris Kelmscott Press edition of The Poems of William Shakespeare. Today, these examples elevate printing to the realm of fine art.
Englishman William Morris, already famed as an artist-designer, founded the Kelmscott Press in 1890, and was inspired by Gothic manuscripts. The ...
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