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at the Press has been described by William Mor/
ris in the foregoing article. It was at first supplied
in sheets of which the dimensions were sixteen
inches by eleven. Each sheet had asawatermarka
conventional primrose between the initialsW.M,
As stated above, The Golden Legend was to have
been the first book put in hand, but as only two
pages could have been printed at a time, and this
would have made it very costly, paper of double
the size was ordered for this work, and The Story
of the Glittering Plain was begun instead. This
book is a small quarto, as are its five immediate
successors, each sheet being folded twice. The last
ream of the smaller size ofpaperwas used on The
Order of Chivalry, All the other volumes of that
series are printed in octavo, on paper of the double
size. For the Chaucer a stouter and slightly larger
paper was needed. This has for its watermark a
Perch with a spray in itsmouth. Manyof thelarge
quarto books were printed on this paper, of which
the first two reams were delivered in February,
1893. Only one other size of paper was used at the
Kelmscott Press. The watermark of this is an
Apple, with the initialsW^M., as in the other two
watermarks. The books printed on this paper are
The Earthly Paradise, The Floure and the Leafe,
The Shepheardes Calender, and Sigurd the Vol/
sung. The last/named is a folio, and the open book
shows the size of the sheet, which is about eigh/
teen inches by thirteen. The first supply of this
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ris in the foregoing article. It was at first supplied
in sheets of which the dimensions were sixteen
inches by eleven. Each sheet had asawatermarka
conventional primrose between the initialsW.M,
As stated above, The Golden Legend was to have
been the first book put in hand, but as only two
pages could have been printed at a time, and this
would have made it very costly, paper of double
the size was ordered for this work, and The Story
of the Glittering Plain was begun instead. This
book is a small quarto, as are its five immediate
successors, each sheet being folded twice. The last
ream of the smaller size ofpaperwas used on The
Order of Chivalry, All the other volumes of that
series are printed in octavo, on paper of the double
size. For the Chaucer a stouter and slightly larger
paper was needed. This has for its watermark a
Perch with a spray in itsmouth. Manyof thelarge
quarto books were printed on this paper, of which
the first two reams were delivered in February,
1893. Only one other size of paper was used at the
Kelmscott Press. The watermark of this is an
Apple, with the initialsW^M., as in the other two
watermarks. The books printed on this paper are
The Earthly Paradise, The Floure and the Leafe,
The Shepheardes Calender, and Sigurd the Vol/
sung. The last/named is a folio, and the open book
shows the size of the sheet, which is about eigh/
teen inches by thirteen. The first supply of this
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