Smith, Henry: Genius and Art Past and Present. Also, Common Sense Remarks on Bookmaking and Printing

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Smith, Henry : Genius and Art Past and Present. Also, Common Sense Remarks on Bookmaking and Printing

Andrew Iredale, Torquay, 1894

230mm. x 180mm.. 50, [4] pages, 2 plates. Half title, frontispiece and plate printed in red, title page printed in red and black, diagrams, adverts to rear. Original green cloth-backed pictorial boards (split at upper joint, some staining, edges rubbed), offsetting to prelims., old illegible signature to front endpaper. The '' Common Sense Remarks on Bookmaking.'' constitute an extended attack on William Morris, the Arts and Crafts movement as applied to printing and, by implication, the Kelmscott Press which had been founded three years before the book's publication, although it is never mentioned by name. Scarce, 4 only on Worldcat. [727]. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth Backed Boards

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