The Daniel Press The Garland Of Rachel

Download or read book The Daniel Press & The Garland of Rachel written by William S. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Daniel Press was a celebrated private press operated by Henry Daniel, a don at Worcester College, Oxford University, during the final decades of the nineteenth century. Unlike some of its more imposing English contemporaries, the Daniel Press was a small family operation. The printing was done entirely by Daniel himself, with some help from his wife and two daughters, and the texts were usually provided by friends and acquaintances in their literary circle. Despite its modest aspirations, the history of the Daniel Press provides a fascinating glimpse of late Victorian Oxford and at the same time displays, in a local setting, the renewal of the art of printing during that period.00This account focuses especially on The Garland of Rachel (1881), by far the best-known publication of the Daniel Press. The Garland consists of a series of poetic0tributes to the Daniels' daughter Rachel, born a year earlier, by various writers of the day, including Robert Bridges, Lewis Carroll, Edmund Gosse, W.E. Henley, Andrew Lang, John Addington Symonds, and Margaret Woods. Because only thirty-six copies were issued, the Garland is today one of the most sought-after of English rare books. This account includes eight pages of color illustrations.