Morris, William; Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle: A note by William Morris on his aims in founding the Kelmscott Press (1898)

Che following passages are given to
show the Croy & Chaucer types, and
four initials that were designed for
the f roissart, but never used*
F)G land is a little
land,Sirs, too much
shut up within the
narrow seas, as it
seems,to havemuch
space ^or
4^3 intohugeness:there
1 are no great wastes
overwhelming in their dreariness,no
great solitudes of forests, no terri-
ble untrodden mountain/walls: all


is measured, mingled,varied, gliding
easily one thing into another: little
rivers, little plains, swelling, speed-
ily/changing uplands, all beset with
handsome orderly trees; little hills,
little moun tain s,netted oyer with the
walls of sheep/walks: all is little; yet
not foolish and blank, but serious
rather, and abundant of meaning for
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