THE TRIPLE CROWN
of Modern Fine Typography
The Triple Crown Collection is highlighted by the rare vellum copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer that William Morris inscribed to the illustrator Edward Burne-Jones in 1896, and the paper copy that Jones presented to his daughter.
The 1903-05 Sir Emery Walker copy of the Doves Press Bible on vellum actually completed Bridwell Library's Triple Crown Collection. It is bound in full brown morocco by Katharine Adams, and is one of only two copies on vellum. Bridwell also possesses one of 500 paper copies, bound in vellum by the Doves Bindery.
The third part of the Triple Crown Collection is the 1909 Ashendene Dante, of which Bridwell possesses one of only seven known copies printed on vellum. It is one of the prized possessions of the Hornby Ashendene Collection, which was purchased with Bridwell Foundation funds in 1976 from Michael Hornby, the son of Charles St John Hornby, founder of the great Ashendene Press.