The lecture on fine printing which inspired the foundation of the Kelmscott Press, was delivered by Emery Walker on 15 november 1888.

Editorial.

Manuals of calligraphy are a source of delight to lovers of fine printing, understood as those of us in the sight of well-structured letterforms harmoniously arranged on a page; and if our taste is antiquarian, the works of the Italian writing-masters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries may be singled out as giving particular pleasure.

A collection of Italian writing-books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.