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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. [32] pp., 8vo, stapled self wrapper. A facsimile of the version that was reprinted in 1934 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of William Morris. Very good; minor foxing on a couple of pages and spine fold a bit toned.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. xii, [2], 78, [4] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Minor wrinkle at top of spine. William Morris (24 March 1834 - 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. Morris' influence on Britain's artistic community became increasingly apparent as the Art Workers' Guild was founded in 1884. Morris deemed calligraphy to be an art form, and taught himself both Roman and italic script, as well as learning how to produce gilded letters. In 1891, he founded the Kelmscott Press to publish limited-edition, illuminated-style print books, a cause to which he devoted his final years. The William Morris Society founded in 1955 is devoted to his legacy, while multiple biographies and studies of his work have been published. When the press closed in 1898 it had produced over 50 works. A scholarly edition of the final Kelmscott Press book (1898) with much new information about Morris's "typographical adventure." The augmented text records variants from proofs and unpublished manuscripts and incorporates many corrections made later by Sydney C. Cockerell. Issued in conjunction with the centenary exhibition, William Morris: The Collector as Creator, held at the Grolier Club December 11, 1996 to February 15, 1997. Designed by William S. Peterson, and printed at the Stinehour Press in an edition of 750 copies. Quarter white cloth, Morris pattern boards. Enlarged and Corrected Version [stated]. Presumed first printing thus. One of only 750 copies.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Lithographic reprint in red and black on good quality laid paper. Borders, ornaments and frontispiece by Burne-Jones, the book also demonstrates all threet types used at Kelmscott. Green printed paper boards, white linen spine. Acetate dust-jacket. A very good copy.

Proofs or Sample Pages from a later reworking [??] of the Philobiblon/LCC School of Arts & Crafts Edition of 1934 ** One large sheet folded to form 16pp each measuring c.25.5 x 16.5 cms, a few light marks, in excellent clean & crisp condition. ** Woodcut portrait of Morris by John Farleigh : & large ten-line dropped calligraphic-style opening letter I. *** Scarce. The original Kelmscott edition was published in 1898 : the Philobiblon / LCC Central School of Arts & Crafts edition of 32pp was originally published in 1934 : see Peterson : Morris in Private Press & Limited Editions, No. 135. **** To order this book, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question. We can then confirm availability.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Set in Centaur type. One of 200 (210) copies printed in black and red on Glastonbury Antique laid paper. Sewn into overlapping grey paper wrappers, titled in black. Rare. A fine copy.

hardcover. Zustand: fine. Together with a Short Description of the Press by Cockerell & an Annotated List of the Books Printed Thereat. 70pp., beautifully printed in red and black. Thin square 8vo, cloth-backed printed boards, original mylar wrapper. (Irish University Press, 1969). Fine. Photolithographic reprint of the last book printed at the Kelmscott Press, 1898.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. One of 750 copies printed at the Stinehour Press and published in connection with the exhibition "William Morris: The Collector as Creator", held at the Grolier Club 11 December 1996-15 February 1997. Illustrations within the text. William Morris pattern paper-covered boards, linen back, titled in gilt. A fine copy. A new edition of the work originally published by the Kelmscott Press in 1898.

Frontis engraved portrait of Morris by John Farleigh, 12.25 x 9", leather backed marbled boards, 23pp + Line Blocks from The Kelmscott Press, covers rubbed, extremities bumped and fraying, spine abraded, hinges loose, endpapers and edges of textblock toned, ink name and date from former owner on front fly else a nice, clean copy. "Large Paper Edition, Second Printing".

KELMSCOTT PRESS (illustrator). Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1898]. One of 525 paper copies. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 206 x 145 mm. [4], 70, [1, colophon], [1, blank] pp. Printed in red and black in Golden type, with five pages in Troy and Chaucer types. Decorative woodcut borders and initials. Wood-engraved frontispiece, and rejected ornaments for Love Is Enough. Bound with the often missing erratum slip, after title-page. Original holland-backed blue paper boards. Text of title-page printed in black on front cover. All edges uncut. Some very minor sunning to boards. Light foxing to endpapers. Previous owner's book plate to front pastedown. Overall about fine. The last book printed at the Kelmscott Press. The frontispiece, designed by Edward Burne-Jones, was engraved by William Morris for a projected edition of The Earthly Paradise in the 1860s and was "touched up" by Robert Catterson-Smith (see Peterson). Provenance: With bookplate 'From the Library of John Charrington, The Grange, Shenley' inscribed in ink "To Margaret Lenox February 1917" at foot of front pastedown. John Charrington, Honorary Keeper of Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge from 1909 until his death in 1939. He had a large collection of prints and a significant library including an important collection of private press books. Penciled initials of Tom Handford Parker on front free endpaper and A.L.S. from him dated 1949 on notepaper from a house called Kelmscott presenting the book to Judge Batt and with annotated newspaper cutting loosely inserted. Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, pp. 62-63. Peterson A53. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 331, no. 53. Sparling 53. Tomkinson, pp. 121-124, no. 53. HBS 69429. $4,500. Signed.

Dublin: Irish University Press. 1969. 8vo. Full vellum with green silk ties, gilt lettering to spine and small gilt shamrock design to lower corner of front, gilt edges, in original slipcase; pp. 70, wood-engraved frontispiece by Edward Burne-Jones, borders and initials by William Morris, printed in red and black; one short tear to fold of slipcase (repaired), else fine.Number 63 of limited edition of 100, reprinted from Kelmscott Press edition of 1898. This was the last book to be published by the Kelmscott Press and provided a summary of Morris's ideas on books, typography and design, as well as a useful bibliography.

210 x 150 mm. (8 1/4 x 5 3/4"). 4 p.l. (including two blanks), 70 pp., [1] leaf (colophon). Original holland-backed blue paper boards. WOODCUT ILLUSTRATION BY EDWARD BURNE-JONES of "Pysche Borne off by Zephyrus" ENGRAVED BY WILLIAM MORRIS, elaborate borders around this and first page of text designed and cut by Morris, large decorative woodcut initials, device on last page of text, and one full-page woodcut of ornaments used in the Kelmscott edition of "Love is Enough." Printed in red and black in Golden, Troy, and Chaucer types. With errata slip laid in at title page. Front pastedown with Arts & Crafts-style bookplate of Edmund Bulkley dated 1893; a list of the Kelmscott books in E. W. Buckley's collection, listed by the number assigned to them in this book, recorded in pencil on a translucent piece of paper laid in here. Morris & Cockerell 53; Peterson A-53; Ransom 53; Tomkinson, p. 121. Some wear to lower corners, just a hint of soil to covers, otherwise a very fine copy--exceptionally fresh, clean, and bright internally. Owned by two collectors with a special interest in Morris, this is a very pleasing copy of one of the key Kelmscott Press books, and the last one to be issued by the press. Morris tells us here about his admiration for 15th century printed books, saying that "they were always beautiful by force of the mere typography, even without the added ornament, with which many of them are so lavishly supplied." And he says that "it was the essence of [his] undertaking to produce books which it would be a pleasure to look upon as pieces of printing and arrangement of type." This is the most important contemporaneous source of comment on the founding, operation, and publications of the Kelmscott Press. Peterson quotes Newdigate, who says that this is "one of the three books that every student of English book-production ought to read." The original owner here was American private press collector Edmund Bulkley, who, according to the list laid in at the rear of this volume, owned 42 Kelmscott books. Evidently prepared after Bulkley's death, the list also marks with a "0" the books sold before 1950, and notes at the end the books (including this volume) that remained in the possession of "M A B B." (this might refer to a relation, possibly art collector M. A. B. Bulkley, who bequeathed a Pre-Raphaelite-style painting to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1996). Bulkley's distinctive bookplate, perhaps created by one of the private presses, is found in a number of press books, which when listed at auction, are in notably fine condition. In 1883, Morris & Company took out a full-page ad in the Official Catalogue of the Boston Foreign Exhibition announcing the appointment of Elliott & Bulkley of 42 East 14th Street, New York City, as U.S. agents for the sale of Morris & Co. "Decorative Manufactures," including wallpaper, fabrics, and "the celebrated Hammersmith carpets made only by Morris & Company." It is tempting to speculate that Edmund Bulkley was associated with this firm, and became aware of the Kelmscott Press via this connection with Morris & Company. Although without additional signs of ownership, our book was later sold as part of the library of Clive Wilmer (1945-2025), English poet and scholar of John Ruskin and William Morris. He wrote and lectured extensively on both men, and from 2009 to 2019 served as Master of The Guild of St. George, a charity for arts, crafts, and the rural economy founded by Ruskin in 1871. The Ruskin Society of North America presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023. Copies of this work appear with some regularity in the marketplace, but specimens in attractive condition are becoming increasingly difficult to find. ONE OF 525 COPIES on paper (and 12 on vellum).