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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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

This card is laid in the book Gothic Architecture.

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…

This is a gathering of poets and writers and artists living in or around the mesa in Bolinas, California. Not so much a school of poets as a meeting of those who happen to be at this geographical location at this point in wobbly time, several…