KIM – by Jon Pressnell
Published by Dalton Watson
£115/US$145
ISBN: 978-1-956309-11-9
Just occasionally there comes a book which is in some ways exhausting. Jon Pressnell’s mammoth biography of Cecil Kimber, crafted with passion and dedication over a great many years, is just such a volume – albeit in a good way. Inevitably we should start with the sheer size of it - 536 pages and around three-quarters of a thousand (sounds bettermaterial is new to the eye, but there are so many wonderful details that it is hard to shortlist them; the inclusion of a happy informal Kimber holiday snap of Hans Lanstad, one of the key people in the wider Morris story, was just one thing that was a joy to this reviewer at least. The story begins with the early life of the man who would go on to thrive in Oxford and then Abingdon.
