A Short and Beautiful Life: The Books, Writers and Artists Who Made the Shakespeare Head Press

by Rita Ricketts

Few have heard of the Shakespeare Head Press, although it ranks alongside William Morris's Kelmscott, Emery Walker and Cobden-Sanderson's Doves, Eric Gill's Golden Cockerel and St John Hornby's Ashendene. Its origins date to the 1860s, when a young Arthur Henry Bullen, dreamt of printing the whole of Shakespeare. Making his dream a reality, Bullen founded his the press in 1904 in an old Tudor house, where Shakespeare would have been a guest.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 191139729X
• ISBN13: 9781911397298
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.3"