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Proof pages for the Kelmscott Press's Shelley consisting of 8 leaves (one signature) covering pages 353-368.

250 copies printed on paper, 6 on vellum.

Morris's retelling of "The Lay of Havelock the Dane," in which he reduces the importance of warfare seen in the original lay and brings the love story into primary focus.

600 copies printed on paper, 12 on vellum.

The Works of Chaucer is the pinnacle of the Kelmscott Press's oeuvre. Morris's love for medieval art and literature and traditional book design are on full display here, in a book that includes 87 illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones, a full-page…

It had been Morris's hope that the Kelmscott Press would continue after his death, but his executor, Sydney Cockerell, decided it should be closed to keep all Morris's publications as a cohesive body. This trial page is one of the last things printed…

Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson was a friend of Morris, a lawyer who, after learning bookbinding, left the practice of law to focus on his new craft. In 1893 he founded the Doves Bindery in Hammersmith with the intention of accomplishing for…

The Doves Bible shows a shift away from the ornate designs of the Kelmscott Press towards a simpler aesthetic in which composition and the elegance of the printing are brought to the fore. The Bible is printed in black with red and blue used…

"Printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker at the Doves Press, No. I, The Terrace, Hammersmith, from the text of the late Dr. Scrivener's Paragraph Bible by permission of the Syndics of the University Press Cambridge. The verse had been…

This is a work of the Ashendene Press, which began printing in 1895 and continued until the first World War forced its closure in 1915. It was revived after the war in 1920 and continued printing until 1935. Two hundred and twenty five copies have…

This volume by the Merrymount Press of Boston shows the appreciation for fine printing moving to North America. The illustrations, by Edward Burne-Jones, were originally intended for a large "Biblia Innocentium" to be published by the Kelmscott…

John Henry Nash moved to San Francisco in 1895 and worked for a variety of presses before printing under his own name. The mitred rule (the vertical and horizontal lines that frame the text in many of his works) is a distinguishing trait of his work,…