Photographs, Pens, and Print: William Morris and the Technologies of Typography
Anna A Wager
In November 1888, influential printer and engraver Emery Walker gave a lecture on historical typefaces to the Arts Crafts Exhibition Society, which featured lantern slide enlargements of early printed typographic examples. These prompted William Morris try his hand at type design. This article reconsiders Morris’s turn typography printing through focus both scale he designed, combined luxuries intensive study contemporary technology that allowed him do so. examining enlargement technologies made designs possible, vital role handwriting in design, interdependence craft Kelmscott Press emerges.
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