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In 1966, the year after the closure of the Grabhorn Press, Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem founded the Grabhorn-Hoyem Press; following Grabhorn's death, Hoyem renamed it the Arion Press. It publishes limited edition letterpress books, often with…

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…

A "rhymed version of the Pentitential Psalms found in a manuscript of Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis, written at Gloucester about the year 1440, and now transcribed and edited by F.S. Ellis. Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 14, Upper…

The colophon states that this is a "New edition of William Caxton's Recuyell of the historyes of Troy, done after the first edition, corrected for the press by H. Halliday Sparling, and printed by me William Morris." This is one of 300 copies printed…

Medieval romances translated by William Morris from the Old French of "L'empereur Constant" and "Histoire d'outre mer". The latter is better known as "La fille du comte de Ponthieu." The binding is by Belle McMurtry Young, a prominent California…

This book was printed by Nicolas Jenson, the printer noted by Morris for the influence of his Roman type on Morris's Golden type. Jenson printed it in 1475 in his Gothic type. 

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…

Lawton Kennedy, with his younger brother, Alfred, developed an interest in printing at an early age. He started working full time as a teenager and soon become recognized as an exceptional pressman. He worked for several well-known Bay Area printers…

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…

In A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press, he wrote "[a]fter a while I felt that I must have a Gothic as well as a Roman fount; and herein the task I set myself was to redeem the Gothic character from the charge of…