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The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Now Newly Imprinted
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…
The Wood Beyond the World
Morris's fantasy novel was written in the style of a medieval romance; it involves a family feud, a tempest, an enchantress, a beautiful maiden, giants, and an unlikely method of becoming king - by being the next foreigner to arrive after the…
The Tale of the Emperor Coustans and of Over Sea
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…
The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-tongue and Raven the Skald: Even as Ari Thorgilson the Learned, the Priest, Hath Told It: Who Was the Man of All Iceland Most Learned in Tales of the Land's Inhabiting and in Lore of Time Agone
75 copies of this book were printed for William Morris by the Chiswick Press for private distribution. It was printed in a black letter facsimile of one of Caxton's on hand-made paper left over from the large paper copies of The Roots of the…
The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye
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…
The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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.
250 copies printed on paper, 6 on vellum.
The Ideal Book: From an Address Delivered by William Morris, Founder of the Kelmscott Press, Before the Bibliographical Society of London, MDCCCXCIII
In 1920, Edwin and Robert Grabhorn moved to San Francisco and founded the Grabhorn Press. By choosing Morris's text as one of the first products of the new press, they announced to their new home exactly what to expect from their press: carefully set…
The Ideal Book: Excerpt from an Address Delivered 1893
One of five copies printed by the Studio Press, Edwin Grabhorn's press in Indianapolis. As with Nash's publication of Cobden-Sanderson's Ideal Book, the Studio Press uses text as well as design and quality to signal its place in the fine press…
The Ideal Book, or, Book Beautiful: a Tract on Calligraphy, Printing & Illustration & on the Book Beautiful as a Whole
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,…
The Helmsman
Martha Jane Bissell was a highly trained bookbinder when she married Robert Grabhorn in 1932, and following their marriage she took up printing. In 1937 she founded the Jumbo Press, which mainly printed ephemera. In 1938 she co-founded the Colt…