Key characters who took the printed book in radical new directions are celebrated in Adam Smyth’s own book The Book Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives.
Adam Smyth talks to Torin Douglas about key characters who took
the printed book in radical new directions, including William Morris,
Emery Walker and Thomas Cobden-Sanderson in Hammersmith,
home of the Kelmscott Press and Doves Press.
Why did Cobden-Sanderson fall out with Walker and throw the
entire Doves Press type in the Thames – and where is it now?
Doors and bar open from 6:00 PM (including the historic house), and talk begins at 7:00 PM in the Weston Studio.
The Chiswick Book Festival is a non-profit-making community event. Since 2009, it has raised more than £140,000 for charities and St Michael & All Angels Church which runs it.
Adam Smyth runs the 39 Step Press, an experiment in printing, from a cold barn in Oxfordshire. He is also Professor of English Literature and the History of the Book at Balliol College, University of Oxford.
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