Nonesuch Press

Nonesuch Press was a bibliophile book publishing in 1922 by Francis Meynell, his wife Vera Mendel, and David Garnett was founded in London.

History

The name of the print derives from Nonsuch Palace, a house built by King Henry VIII in Surrey Tudor palace from ( 1538 to 1682 /83). The first book, published by Nonesuch Press, were the Love Poems of John Donne in May 1923. Overall, there appeared more than 140 books. The publisher had his best time in the 1920s and 1930s, he was, however, until the mid- 1960s. In the late 1930s and during the 1940s Meynell left the printing George Macy, the founder and owner of the Limited Editions Club. In the early 1950s, Meynell teamed up with Max Reinhardt, the owner of the publishing house The Bodley Head, together and took over the business again. In recent years, the existence Nonesuch Press also produced classic children's books, such as E. Nesbits The Story of the Treasure Seekers, or collections of fairy tales by Andrew Lang, published in the Cygnet series.

Freak on Nonesuch Press was that the individual design of the books was indeed carried out by means of a hand-operated printing press, but the final production run of commercial printers, such as Kynoch Press, Birmingham,. The reason was, of course, a wide audience make quality books available at reasonable prices. Superbly designed and produced books should not be a monopoly of private printing of book art movement and feel the hand pressure model of William Morris ' Kelmscott Press obligation; Meynell wanted to prove that even machines with top-quality products could be produced. For the decoration of the works Nonesuch Press collaborated with well-known book illustrators Edward McKnight Kauffer such as Eric Ravilious or.

Some of the popular editions of Nonesuch Press was the collected works of playwright William Congreve and William Wycherley, as well as translations of Cervantes and Dante.