 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...  English Book Collectors - Page 388by William Younger Fletcher - 1902 - 448 pagesFull 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 - English literature - 1899 - 608 pages
...careful experiment. ' I began,' he says, ' printing books with the hope of producing some which should have a definite claim to beauty, while at the same...the reader by eccentricity of form in the letters. . . . Fifteenth-century books, I had noticed, were always beautiful by force of the mere typography.... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1899 - 626 pages
...careful experiment. ' I began," he says, ' printing books with the hope of producing some which should have a definite claim to beauty, while at the same...the reader by eccentricity of form in the letters. . . . Fifteenth-century books, I had noticed, were always beautiful by force of the mere typography.... | |
 | Arthur Pabst, Karl Hoffacker, Fritz Heilwag - Art - 1899 - 260 pages
...ON 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
...1.) i;,. NOTE BY WILLIAM MORRIS ON HIS AIMS IN FOUNDING THEKELMSCOTTPRESS^M» BEGAN printing books with the hope of producing some which would have a...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... | |
 | Gutenberg-Gesellschaft - Printing - 1902 - 550 pages
...ENGRAVED BY WILLI AM ON HIS AIMS IN FOUNDING THEKELMSCOTTPRESS^^ !""Sj BEGAN printing books with i thehope of producing some which • would have a definite...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 - Graphic design (Typography) - 1902 - 524 pages
...his Aims in Founding the Kelmseott Press (p. 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... | |
 | Printers - 1907 - 298 pages
...NOTE BY WILLIAM MORRIS ON HIS AIMS IN FOUNDING THEKELMSCOTTPRESS^^ BEGAN printing books with thehope of producing some which would have a definite claim...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... | |
 | Engraving - 1908 - 534 pages
...activity toward printing. In his "Aims in Founding 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 - History - 1908 - 1002 pages
...who 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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