The lecture includes, along with the stated theme of Gothic architecture, Morris's musing on book arts, furniture, crafts, and literature. The book was printed by the Kelmscott Press during the Arts and Crafts Exhibition at the New Gallery, Regent…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…