| [!-- not numbered [24] --] | not see how these can be better spent than in making life cheerful & honourable for others and for ourselves; and the gain of good life to the country at large that would result from men seriously setting about the bettering of the decency of our big towns would be priceless, even if nothing specially good befell the arts in consequence: I do not know that it would; but I should begin to think matters hopeful if men turned their attention to such things, and I repeat that, unless they do so, we can scarcely even begin with any hope our endeavours for the bettering of the Arts. (From the lecture called The Lesser Arts, in Hopes and Fears for Art, by William Morris, pages 22 and 33.) |
The “Note by William Morris on his Aims in Founding the[!-- not numbered [25] --] Kelmscott Press,” the last book printed at the Kelmscott Press, contains a few errors in the “Bibliography.” These errors have been allowed to stand in reprinting the “Note” here, in order that the reprint shall be a literal one.
Mr. S. C. Cockerell, the former Secretary of the Kelmscott Press, has kindly sent a list of these corrections, which appear below:
Page 19, line 21—“Golden type” should be inserted after “[8vo].”
Page 30, line 16—“June 26, [1893],” should be “June 26, 1896.”
Page 39, line 17—after “[guineas]” insert “ten on vellum at ten guineas.”
Page 40, line 31—for “[eight leaflets]” read, “nine or ten leaflets.”
Page 44, line 12—omit “[Lady].”[!-- not numbered [26] --]