Anne Posega, Head of Special Collections at the Washington University Libraries, examines a copy of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur (Ashendene Press, 1913).  Printer St. John Hornby remarked that "On the whole I think I like Faerie Queen and Morte Darthur best" (Franklin, p. 57).

 

Hand-drawn initials by William Morris, tipped into a copy of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Ballads and Narrative Poems (Kelmscott Press, 1893).  This copy is inscribed by Morris to Sydney Cockerell.

 

Milton's Areopagitica (Doves Press, 1907), with printed initials designed by Edward Johnson.

 

Anne Posega (left) and Alison Carrick view Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe (Ashendene Press, 1931).  The work is annotated by St. John Hornby, who explains that this is one of ten surviving copies of a defective printing (all others were destroyed).  Another edition was printed in 1933. Also shown, a Book of Ecclesiasticus (Ashendene Press, 1932) strikingly bound in orange vellum.

 

The prospectus for the first book printed by the Doves Press, Tacitus' Life of Agricola (in Latin).  Shown also is a presentation copy of the work from T.J. Cobden-Sanderson to his wife, Annie.  The volume appears in a unique vellum binding from the Doves Bindery.

 

The Triple Crown Collection also includes manuscript materials, such as a collection of correspondence from T.J. Cobden-Sanderson to his pupil, St. Louis binder Cordelia Baker.  The volume is an example of Cordelia Baker's work from Washington University's Department of Special Collections.

Availability

The Triple Crown Collection is currently being processed,and consequently all items will not appear in the Libraries' online catalog.  To make arrangements in advance for research and class visits, contact the Department of Special Collections.

An exhibition and symposium based on the collection will take place in the 2001-02 academic year.