Research Guides: William Morris and the Kelmscott Press: Non-Kelmscott Works By Morris

Non-Kelmscott Works by William Morris

Titles are arranged alphabetically by title.

Most items listed in this section include John J. Walsdorf's citation numbers from William Morris in Private Press and Limited Editions: A Descriptive Bibliography of Books by and About William Morris, 1891-1981 (SPC REF Z232.M87W254 1983).

The Walsdorf collection formed the core of the University of Maryland's William Morris Collection, and this bibliography provides additional details about the majority of works found in the collection. Where applicable, Walsdorf's numbers are provided in square brackets at the end of each citation.

Highlighted titles link to digital copies.

A

An Address Delivered by William Morris and the Distribution of Prizes to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb. 21, 1894 by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks N 7450.M85 1898
Publication Date: London: Longmans & Co., 1898
Printed in Kelmscott Press golden type on Kelmscott handmade paper by the Chiswick Press. [Walsdorf #67]
Address delivered in the Town Hall, Birmingham, on the 19th of February, 1879- "The Art of the People" by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks N 7445.2.M67 1879
Publication Date: Birmingham: Printed by E.C. Osborne, 1897
The Aeneids of Virgil done into English Verse by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PA 6807.A5M6 1976b
Publication Date: London: Ellis and White, New Bond Street, 1876
The Aeneids of Virgil done into English by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PA 6807.A5M6 1876
Publication Date: Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1876
"Author's editions, from the Second London Edition"
The Aeneids of Virgil Done into English Verse By William Morris
Call Number: Rare Folio PA 6807.A5M6 1902
Publication Date: London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1902
"First printed in 1876, and reprinted at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press, and finished on the twenty-fourth day of February, 1902"--Colophon.
Alfred Linell Killed in Trafalgar Square, Nov. 20, 1887. A Death Song by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5076.A43 1887
Publication Date: (London): Richard Lambert, (1887)
On the cover a "memorial design" by Walter Crane. Morris' part consists of the words for the "Death Song," the music for which, also given in the pamphlet, was composed by M. Lawson.
Architecture and History and Westminster Abbey by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks NA 2563.M6 1900
Publication Date: London: Longmans & Co., 1900
A Chiswick Press reprint using Golden type. [Walsdorf #77]
Architecture, Industry, and Wealth: Collected Papers by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Folio N 7445.2.M672 1902
Publication Date: London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1902
"Now first gathered together & printed at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press, and finished on the 23rd day of June, 1902"--Colophon. [Walsdorf #84]
Art and its Producers, and the Arts & Crafts of Today: Two Addresses Delivered before the National Association for the Advancement of Art by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks N 7445.M87 1901
Publication Date: London: Longmans & Co., 1901
Printed at the Chiswick Press in Golden type. [Walsdorf #83]
Art and the Beauty of the Earth
Call Number: Rare Stacks N 7450.M8555 1898
Publication Date: London: Longmans and Co., 1898
Printed at the Chiswick Press with Golden type. This copy is inscribed, "To Gwen Gimnett with Sidney Cockerell's love, Christmas, 1948." [Walsdorf #68]
The Art and Craft of Printing. A Note by William Morris on his Aims in Founding of the Kelmscott Press, Together with a Short Description of the Press by S.C. Cockerell, and an Annotated List of the Books Printed Thereat by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks Z 232.M87M8 1902
Publication Date: New Rochelle, New York: Elston Press, 1902
Limited to 210 copies. [Walsdorf #93]
The Art of the People. An Address Delivered Before the Birmingham Society of Arts, February 19th, 1879 by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks N 7450.M86 1902
Publication Date: Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Publisher, 1902
Limited to 250 copies. [Walsdorf #92]
Arts and Crafts by William Morris
Call Number: Special Collections Stacks N 7450.M85 1910
Publication Date: Pittsfield, Massachusetts: The Caxton Society, [1910]
The Caxton Brochures, Series A, no. 19, A Magazine for Quality Folks, edited by Thomas Dreier.
Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
Call Number: Rare Stacks NK 1147.A7 1893
Publication Date: London: Rivington, Percival, & Co., 1893
First edition, with a preface by Morris. In addition to his Preface, there are essays by Morris "Textiles" and "Of Dying as an Art," an essay by Morris and Walker on "Printing," and three essays by May Morris.
The Arts of Life
Call Number: Special Collections Stacks PR 5080.L47 1934
Publication Date: San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1934
No statement of limitation on this four-page French-fold on handmade paper which bears the cover title: "William Morris: Craftsman, Romancer, Poet, Prophet 1834-1934." [Walsdorf #139]

C

Chants for Socialists by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5078.C4 1885
Publication Date: London: The Socialist League Office, 1885
Contains six poems: The Day is Coming, The Voice of Toil, All for the Cause, No Master, The March of the Workers, The Message of the March Wind.
Chants for Socialists by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5078.C4 1885b
Publication Date: London: The Socialist League Office, 1885
This edition contains seven poems, the last one being "Down Among the Dead Men." The first edition of 1885 contained only six poems, omitting the last one mentioned above. The 1885 edition with seven poems was reissued in 1892.
Chants for Socialists by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5078.C4 1892
Publication Date: London: The Socialist League, 1892
Reissue of the edition containing seven poems, first published in 1885 in addition to the six-poem edition. The seventh poem is entitled "Down among the Dead Men."
Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5079.C5 1900
Publication Date: Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1900
450 copies on Van Gelder handmade paper. Walsdorf notes that this is an "unusual binding, vellum overboards, with an underlay design imitative of embroidery, and two inlaid green leather labels. [Walsdorf #78]
A Christmas Carol by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5078.C47
Publication Date: New York: Poets Guild, n.d.
One of a series published by the Poets Guild entitled "The Unbound Anthology."
Christmas Eve at the Blue Closet
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks PR 5080.C575
Publication Date: Mount Vernon, New York: Golden Eagle Press, c. 1946
Limited to 2000 copies on Tweedweave White Antique rag paper. [Walsdorf #152]
The Collected Works of William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5071.S6
Publication Date: London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1910-1915
With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris. 24 vols. This edition was limited to 1050 copies, of which only 1000 were for sale. This is copy 593. [Walsdorf #113]
Communism. A Lecture by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks HX 626.M6 1907
Publication Date: London: The Fabian Society, 1907
Fabian Tract no. 113. This is an October 1907 reprint of a March 1903 publication.
A Comparison of a Trial Design and a Final Version of the Frontispiece for the Kelmscott Press Edition of "News from Nowhere."
Call Number: Special Collections Folio HX 811 1890.M77 1973
Publication Date: N.P.: Sanford L. Berger, n.d. [c. 1973]
Limited to 300 copies for private distribution. Printed by Lawton Alfred Kennedy. [Walsdorf #178]

D

The Decorative Arts Their Relation to Modern Life and Progress by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks NK 1132.M8 1878
Publication Date: London: Ellis and White, 1878.
Subtitled "An Address delievered before the Trade's Guild of Learning." The first English edition, followed in the same year by an American edition.
The Decorative Arts: Their Relation to Modern Life and Progress. An Address by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks NK 1132.M8 1878b
Publication Date: Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1878
First U.S. edition, published the same year as the English edition. The name of owner and date are written in ink on the front page cover and title page.
The Defence of Guenevere. A Book of Lyrics Chosen from the Works of William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5078.D4 1896
Publication Date: Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1896
Walsdorf #64 describes this book as being dated on the title page MDCCCXCV, but stamped on the spine "Bibelot Series 1896" like this copy. His original inventory also lists the date of publication as 1895, but this is almost certainly an error that was perpetuated in his Bibliography. Limited to 925 copies.
The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR5078.D4 1896b
Publication Date: London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1896
Reprinted without alteration from the first edition of 1858. It bears a label which reads, "From the library of Andrew Lang. Sold by Messrs. Sotheby Dec. 5th, 1912."
The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5078.D4 1904b
Publication Date: The King's Poets Series. London: Alexander Moring Ltd., The De La More Press, 1904
The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5078.D4 1904
Publication Date: London: John Lane, the Bodely Head, 1904
Illustrated by Jessie M. King. This is a very rare illustrated edition with the binding also illustrated by King.
The Defence of Guenevere by William Morris
Call Number: Special Collections Stacks PR 5078.D4 1925
Publication Date: Stratford-Upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1925
Limited to 55 copies on Batchelor's Kelmscott handmade paper, of which this is number VII. Bound in full vellum. [Walsdorf #122]
La Difesa di Genevra [The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems]
Call Number: Rare Folio PR 5078.D416 1898
Publication Date: Venice: Carlo Ferrari, 1898
Translated by Eugenio Barera. First edition in Italian.
The Doom of King Acrisius
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5078.D66 1902
Publication Date: New York: R. H. Russell, 1902
Illustrated with Pictures by Sir Edward Burne-Jones.
A Dream of John Ball by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks 5079.D8 1922
Publication Date: Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, [1922?]
Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 37 Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius.
A Dream of John Ball and A King's Lesson by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5079.D8
Publication Date: London: Reeves & Turner, 1888
A Dream of John Ball, Being an Idyll in Prose by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5079.D8 1898
Publication Date: East Aurora, New York: Roycroft Shop, 1898
This is no. 270 of an edition limited to 650 copies. There was another limited edition of 100 on Whatman paper. [Walsdorf #70]
A Dream of John Ball by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5079.D8 1902
Publication Date: Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1902
Limited to 925 copies on Van Gelder paper. [Walsdorf #99]
A Dream of John Ball and A King's Lesson by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5079.D8 1903
Publication Date: London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903
Limited to 250 copies on handmade paper; Walsdorf notes that "this copy is bound in full leather with extensive use of gilt, much in the style of a Doves binding."

E

The Early Romances of William Morris in Prose and Verse
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks PR 5074.A3E94 1907
Publication Date: Everyman's Library. London: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton, [1907]
Edited by Earnest Rhys. With an introduction by Alfred Noyes.
The Earthly Paradise. A Poem by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5075.A1 1868
Publication Date: London: F. S. Ellis, 1868
First edition of the very rare first part of this famous long poem by Morris. Presentation copy from William Morris to his mother, and bears the inscription: "Emma Morris from her affectionate Son the author." Bound in half green morocco with gilt by Riviere.
The Earthly Paradise. A Poem by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5075.A1 1890
Publication Date: London: Reeves & Turner, 1890
Presentation copy with inscription by Morris: "To Elizabeth Burden from her affectionate Brother, William Morris, Christmas, 1890." Forman says of the binding, "the cover, which the poet specially designed for it, is very elegant."
The Earthly Paradise by William Morris
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks PR 5075 .A1 1900
Publication Date: London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900.

F

Fearless Rest and Hopeful Work
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks PR 5080.L47 1954
Publication Date: San Marino, California: Castle Press, 1954
Limited to 100 copies, printed by Grant Dahlstrom for members of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs. [Walsdorf #156]
Five Arthurian Poems: The Defense of Guenevere., King Arthur's Tomb. Sir Galahad, A Christmas Mystery. The Chapel in Lyoness. A Good Knight in Prison
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5074.A1 1902
Publication Date: New Rochelle, New york: Elston Press, 1902
Limited to 178 copies. [Walsdorf #95]

G

The Gateway to Romance: Tales Retold by Emily Underdown from "The Earthly Paradise" of William Morris
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks PN 687.U6
Publication Date: London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1914?]
Gertha's Lovers: A Tale
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5079.G4 1902
Publication Date: Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1902
Limited to 425 copies on Japanese Vellum. [Walsdorf #100]
Gossip About an Old House on the Upper Thames
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5080.G67 1901
Publication Date: Flushing, New York: J. E. Hill, 1901
Limited to 100 copies on Japanese Vellum, of which 75 were for sale. This is no. 12. [Walsdorf #88]
Gossip about an Old House on the Upper Thames
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks PR 5080.G67 1976
Publication Date: New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976
Limited to 750 copies. Printed in Cambridge, England, at the Cambridge University Press in Golden type designed by Morris. [Walsdorf #192]
Guenevere. Two Poems by William Morris: "The Defence of Guenevere" and "King Arthur's Tomb."
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks PR 5078.G84 1930
Publication Date: London: Franfolico Press, 1929
With Eight Decorations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and a Foreword by Gordon Bottomley. Limited to 450 copies for sale: this is no. 285. Printed in Weiss Antiqua type on Barcham Green vellum, with eight collotypes by Rossetti. [Walsdorf #131]

H

Hand and Brain: A Symposium of Essays on Socialism by William Morris, Grant Allen, George Bernard Shaw, Henry S. Salt, Alfred Russell Wallace, and Edward Carpenter
Call Number: Rare Stacks HX 15.H3
Publication Date: East Aurora, New York: Roycroft Shop, 1898
This is no. 114 of an edition of 725 copies printed on handmade Kelmscott paper. [Walsdorf #71]
The History of Over Sea. Done out of the Ancient French into English
Call Number: Rare Stacks PQ 1485.H4E56 1899
Publication Date: Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1899
Limited to 425 copies printed on Japanese Vellum. [Walsdorf #75]
The History of Over Sea.
Call Number: Rare Stacks PQ 1485.H4E56 1902
Publication Date: New York: R. H. Russell, 1902
With Decorations by Louis Rhead
The Hollow Land: A Tale
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5079.H65 1900
Publication Date: Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1900
Limited to 425 copies on Japanese Vellum. [Walsdorf #80]
The Hollow Land and Other Contributions to the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5079.H65 1903
Publication Date: London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903
Limited to 315 copies, of which 300 were for sale. Printed at the Chiswick Press in Golden type. [Walsdorf #104]
The Hollow Land
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5079.H65 1905
Publication Date: Hingham, Massachusetts: Village Press, 1905
This edition was limited to 220 copies, but it is thought that the fire of 1908 which destroyed Goudy's press, types, and books, also destroyed all but about 85 copies of this book. With the bookplate of Pickford Waller. [Walsdorf #110]
Hopes and Fears for Art
Call Number: Rare Stacks N 7445.M85 1882
Publication Date: Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1882
Hopes and Fears for Art
Call Number: Rare Folio N 7445.2.M677 1902
Publication Date: London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1902
The House of the Wolfings by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Folio PR 5079.T25 1901
Publication Date: London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1901
Limited printed by the Chiswick Press.
How I Became a Socialist by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks HX 246.M8 1896
Publication Date: London: Twentieth Century Press, Limited, (1896)

I

The Ideal Book. An Address
Call Number: Rare Stacks Z 116.A4M67 1899
Publication Date: New York: Calumet Press, 1899
Limited to 250 paper copies, of which this is no. 206. [Walsdorf #72]
The Ideal Book, An Address Delivered by William Morris in 1893
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks Z 116.A4M67 1931
Publication Date: New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1931
[Walsdorf #133]
"Introduction." Good King Wenceslas by A Carol by Dr. Neale. Pictures by Arthur Gaskin. Introduction by William Morris.
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5103.N2G64 1904
Publication Date: Hingham, Massachusetts: The Village Press, 1904
The printing was limited to 185 copies. However, this is a very rare edition, Walsdorf observes, because "it is noted in the Village Press bibliography that about a hundred copies were destroyed in the Parker Building fire." With the bookplate of Pickford Waller. [Walsdorf #109]
"Introductory Note." Good King Wenceslas by A Carol written by Dr. Neale and pictured by Arthur J. Gaskin with an Introduction by Willim Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5103. N2G64 1895
Publication Date: Birmingham: Messrs. Cornish Brs., 1895
Limited to 125 copies, of which 113 were for sale. [Walsdorf #59A]

K

A King's Lesson
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks PR 5079.K55 1934
Publication Date: Madison, New Jersey: Golden Hind Press, 1934
With a Woodcut by Charles W. Smith. Limited to 145 copies on arak paper. This is no. 38. Signed by the printer A. W. Rushmore, and the frontispiece signed by Charles W. Smith. [Walsdorf #137]

U

Under an Elm-Tree; Or, Thoughts in the Country-side
Call Number: Rare Stacks HX 246.M6777 1891
Publication Date: Aberdeen: James Leatham, 1891
One of a series of socialist "Penny Pamphlets" published by Leatham.
Useful Work v. Useless Toil by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks HX 246.M85 1885
Publication Date: London: Socialist League Office, 1885
With the emblem of the Socialist League on the cover and "The Socialist Platform. - No. 2." The same work was published again by the Freedom Library in 1890 with the same page numbering (19-39 pp.) (?n.d.) and by the Hammersmith Socialist Society in 1893.
Useful Work Versus Useless Toil by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks HX 246.M85 1890z
Publication Date: London: W. Reeves, n.d.
The Freedom Library.
Useful Work v. Useless Toil by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks HX 246.M85 1893
Publication Date: London: The Hammersmith Socialist Society, 1893
With the emblem of the Hammersmith Socialist Society. In this edition, the pagination runs (2)-19.
Useful Work Versus Useless Toil by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks HX 246.M85 1896
Publication Date: London: The Freedom Library, (1896?)

L

Lectures on Art delivered in support for the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
Call Number: Rare Stacks N 7443.2.P65 1882
Publication Date: London: Macmillan and Co., 1882
Contains a lecture by William Morris entitled "The Lesser Arts of Life," pp. 174-232.
Letters on Socialism
Call Number: Rare Stacks HX 246.M68 1894
Publication Date: London: Privately Printed, 1894
This item was printed for Thomas J. Wise, now best known for his forgeries of more than 50 titles. The book states: "The impression of this book is limited to thirty-four copies for private circulation only." [Walsdorf #60]
The Life and Death of Jason. A Poem. by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5076.A1 1869
Publication Date: London: F. S. Ellis, 1869
Fourth edition bound in full leather with gilt by J. Sotheran and Co., London.
The Life and Death of Jason. A Poem.
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5076.A1 1886
Publication Date: Boston: Roberts Brohers, 1886
Designated by the publishers as "Author's Edition."
The Life and Death of Jason. A Metrical Romance. by William Morris
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks PR 5076.A1 1900
Publication Date: London: Headley Brothers, [1900?]
Decorated by Maxfield Armfield.
The Life and Death of Jason.
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks PR 5076.A1 1911
Publication Date: London: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., [1911]
Love is Enough or The Freeing of Pharamond. A Morality.
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5078.L5 1873
Publication Date: London: Ellis and White, 1873.
Proof copy of the first edition, inscribed on the front wrapper in Morris's hand, "Unbound proof copy-- Will be published November 25th--" The copy has been subsequently bound in full red leather with gilt by S.S. and dated 1905.

M

Manifesto of the Joint Committee of Socialist Bodies.
Call Number: Rare Stacks HX 11.J65M26 1893
Publication Date: London: 1893.
Cover title "Manifesto of English Socialists." A joint statement signed by William Morris, Geo. Bernard Shaw, Sydney Webb, and others.
The Manifesto of the Socialist League
Call Number: Rare Stacks HX 11.S63M26 1885
Publication Date: London: Socialist League Office, 1885.
A New Edition, Annotated by William Morris and E. Belfort Bax.
Masters, in this Hall
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks PR 5079.M38 1929
Publication Date: [New York: Harbor Press, 1929?]
This copy is signed by "John S. Fass." [Walsdorf #127]
The Message of the March Wind
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks PR 5078.M37 1963
Publication Date: Leicester: Leicester College of Art, 1963.
Monopoly, or How Labour is Robbed by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks HX 246.M7 1891
Publication Date: London: Office of "Freedom," [1891]
Monopoly, or How Labour is Robbed by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks HX 246.M7 1890
Publication Date: London: Office of "The Commonweal," 1890
The Commonweal was the weekly journal of the Socialist League. This publication is also labeled at the head of the cover title "The Socialist Platform." No. 7.
Monopoly, or How Labour is Robbed by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks HX 246.M7 1893
Publication Date: Hammersmith: The Hammersmith Socialist Society, 1893.

N

News From Nowhere; or, An Epoch of Rest, Being Some Chapters from A Utopian Romance by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks HX 811 1890.M77
Publication Date: Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890
The U.S. imprint is the first edition, since the U.K. edition did not appear until the Spring of 1891. The book includes a Walter Crane cartoon, "Labour's May-Day," was used as the Frontispiece and is bound in dark red cloth with gray lettering on the front cover and a gold stamped terrestrial hemisphere with the legend "Solidarity of Labour."
News From Nowhere or an Epoch of Rest by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks HX 811 1891.M77
Publication Date: London: Reeves & Turner, 1891
Large paper edition, limited to 250 copies. Inscribed by Morris: "Littleton Forbes Winslow from William Morris March 26th 1891." Original blue paper boards with a white paper spine and label in a blue cloth box. Contains the bookplate of Efrem Zimbalist. [Walsdorf #56]
News from Nowhere or an Epoch of Rest, Being Some Chapters from A Utopian Romance by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks HX 811 1891. M77
Publication Date: London: Reeves & Turner, 1891
Standard first English edition (see note on U.S. 1890 edition above) with the bookplate of Edmund William Gosse, poet and biographer of Swinburne.
A Note by William Morris on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press together with a Short Description of the Press by S.C. Cockerell by William Morris
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks Z 232.M87M83 1934
Publication Date: London: Central School of Arts and Crafts, 1934
Second printing of a large paper edition completed in November 1934. Bound in quarter leather with Cockerell paper boards. This copy bears the book label of the papermaker John Mason, signed by his father, the printer, "J.H. Mason given to me by Mr. Rooke, Nov. or Dec. 1935." [Walsdorf #135]
Note by William Morris on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press by William Morris
Call Number: Special Collections Stacks Z 232.M87M83 1962
Publication Date: Syracuse, New York: Spare Moments Press, 1962
Limited to 300 copies. [Walsdorf #167]
"A Note on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press" and [with Emery Walker] "Printing." Kelmscott, Doves, and Ashendene: The Private Press Credos by William Morris. With an introduction by Will Ransom.
Call Number: Special Collections Stacks Z 231.R35
Publication Date: New York: The Typophiles, 1952
This edition was limited to 700 copies, designed by Ward Ritchie, and printed by Anderson & Ritchie in Los Angeles. [Walsdorf #155]

O

The Odyssey of Homer, Done into English Verse by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PA 4025.A5M6 1887
Publication Date: London: Reeves & Turner, 1887
2 vols. This first edition is a very rare copy which bears a note on the front fly leaf: "This book contains overleaf two pages of the original manuscript of William Morris's translation of the Odyssey of Homer. See pages 68 &80, Vol. I. Presented to me by Thomas J. Wise, 29th November 1897. J.M. [John Morgan]"
The Odyssey of Homer Done into English Verse
Call Number: Rare Folio PA 4025.A5M6 1901
Publication Date: London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1901
Printed at the Chiswick Press in Golden type on handmade paper with the Morris "Daisy" watermark. [Walsdorf #84]
Old French Romances by Done into English by Wiliam Morris, with an Introduction by Joseph Jacobs.
Call Number: Rare Stacks PQ 1391.M6 1896
Publication Date: London: George Allen, 1896
First edition.
On Art and Socialism. Essays and Lectures
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks HX 521.M6
Publication Date: London: John Lehmann Ltd., 1947
Selected with an introduction by Holbrook Jackson.
"On the Artistic Qualities of the Woodcut Books of Ulm and Augsburg in the Fifteenth Century." Bibliographica: Papers on Books, Their History and Art. Volume I, Part IV.
Call Number: Special Collection Folio
Publication Date: London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1895
pp. 437-455.
Outlanders, Whence Come Ye Last?
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks PR 5078.O98 1927
Publication Date: New York: Privately printed for George A. Nelson, 1927
Printed by William E. Rudge in an edition limited to 245 copies {Walsdorf #125]

P

The Pilgrims of Hope, a Poem in XIII Books
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5078.P55 1901
Publication Date: Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1901
Limited to 400 copies on Van Gelder handmade paper. [Walsdorf #90]
Poems by the Way by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5078.P4 1891b
Publication Date: London: Reeves & Turner, 1891
Only 100 large paper copies were printed, of which this is No. 59. Forman states that these copies "are choicely printed and most agreeable to read." Inscribed by Forman: "Lilian Braby with love and best wishes from H. Buxton Forman 15 March 1895." Contains the bookplate of Graham Pollard [Walsdorf #54]
Poems by the Way by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5078.P4 1891c
Publication Date: London: Reeves and Turner, 1891
First trade edition, issued immediately after the publication of the Kelmscott Press edition. Inscribed by Edmund H. New, a friend of Morris and a member of the Birmingham School.
Poems of William Morris by Edited, with an introduction by Nelson Antrim Crawford.
Call Number: Special Collections Stacks PR 5074.A3C72 1924
Publication Date: Little Blue Book no. 492. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Co., [1924]
"Praise of Wine" and "Untitled Sonnet." Praise of Wine by Ward Ritchie
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks PR 5078.P73R5 1958
Publication Date: Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1958
Limited to 300 copies. Printed for members of the Roxburghe Club and the Zamorano Club. The pamphlet is Ritchie's description of how he acquired a manuscript in Morris' hand with the poem, "Praise of Wine," on one side, and an unfinished and previously unpublished sonnet on the other. [Walsdorf #159]
Pre-Raphaelite Ballads
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5078.P74 1900
Publication Date: New York: A. Wessels Co., 1900
500 numbererd copies on Old Stratford paper and 250 copies on Imperial Japanese paper, of which this is copy no. 34. [Walsdorf #82]
"Preface" and [with Emery Walker] "Printing." The Revival of Art in Craft
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks Z 151.5.R4
Publication Date: [London]: Wynkyn de Worde Society in Association with the William Morris Society, [1968]
Number 422 of an edition limited to 650 copies. [Walsdorf #172].
Printing
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks Z 124.M87
Publication Date: Park Ridge, Illinois: Village Press, 1903
Of this edition of 231 copies, 200 of which were for sale, this is no. 121. It bears the bookplate of Pickford Waller. [Walsdorf #107]
Prose and Poetry (1865-1870)
Call Number: Special Collections Stacks PR 5072.P76 1920
Publication Date: London: Oxford University Press, 1920
Second edition.
Pygmalion and the Image by Illustrated with Pictures by Sir Edward Burne-Jones.
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5075.A3R86 1903
Publication Date: New York: R.H. Russell, 1903

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The Reward of Labour: A Dialogue
Call Number: Rare Stacks HD 4909.M67 1893
Publication Date: Hammersmith: The Hammersmith Socialist Society, n.d.
"Being no.1 of the Hammersmith Socialist Library."
"Riding Together," "The Blue Closet," and "Golden Wings." An Anthology of Pure Poetry by Edited with an introduction by George Moore
Call Number: Special Collections Stacks PR 1175.M6 1924a
Publication Date: New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924
This is no. 692 of a first edition of 1000, signed by George Moore.
The Roots of the Mountains Wherein is Told Somewhat of the lives of the Men of Burgdale, Their Friends, Their Neighbors, Their Foemen and Their Fellows in Arms by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5079.R65 1890
Publication Date: London: Reeves & Turner, 1890
Special first edition on Whatman paper was limited to 250 copies, printed by Charels Whittingham and Co. The binding is printed tapestry designed by Morris and made specially for this edition. Inscribed by Morris' friend and publisher, F.S. Ellis: "P.M. Ellis with her father's fond love, Christmas 1889." Morris considered this book to be "the best-looking book issued since the 17th Century" according to Cockerell, and Forman states that "this volume treads upon the threshold of the Kelmscott Press in matter of style."
The Roots of the Mountains by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Folio PR 5079.R65 1901
Publication Date: London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1901
Limited edition printed by the Chiswick Press.

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The Saga of Hen Thorir
Call Number: Rare Stacks PT 7269. H22E5 1903
Publication Date: Cincinnati, Ohio: Byway Press, 1903
With Decorations by A.E. Goetting. Copy no. 167 of 350 printed on handmade M.B.M. French paper.
Selected Poems by Edited and introduced by Jack Linsay
Call Number: Special Collections Stacks PR 5074.A315
Publication Date: Crown Classics Series. London: Grey Walls Press, 1948
Selected Writings by Edited and introduced by William Gaunt
Call Number: Special Collections Stacks PR 5072.G386 1948
Publication Date: London: Falcon Press, 1948
Shameful Death
Call Number: Special Collections Stacks PR 5078.S52 1969
Publication Date: Leamington Spa, England: Gazebo Press, 1969
With Three Drawings by Barry Burman. Walsdorf notes that, "The colophon states that 120 copies were printed, but only 96 copies were actually printed." [Walsdorf #173]
A Short Account of the Commune of Paris by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks DC 318.B39 1886
Publication Date: London: Socialist League Office, 1886
The pamphlet shows the emblem of the Socialist League on the cover title and is identified as the "Socialist Platform No. 4."
Sir Galahad: A Christmas Mystery by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5075.S5 1858
Publication Date: London: Bell and Daldy, 1858
A Thomas J. Wise forgery. Bound in half leather wit bookplate of John Saks and J.A. Dunbar.
Sir Galahad, A Christmas Mystery by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Folio PR 5078.S5 1902
Publication Date: New Rochelle, New York: Elston Press, 1902
Limited to 180 copies. This copy is bound in blue morocco, with a single line gilt border on cover and spine by Birdsall. Inserted is an A.L.S. from A. Herve Browning presenting this book to C.R. Ashbee, with Ashbee's book label. [Walsdorf #96]
Sir Galahad. A Christmas Mystery by William Morris
Call Number: Special Collections Stacks PR 5078.S4 1904
Publication Date: Chicago: Blue Sky Press, 1904
Limited to 500 copies on paper and 25 copies on Japanese Vellum. This is no. 18 on Japanese Vellum. [Walsdorf #108]
Socialism: Its Growth and Outcome
Call Number: Rare Stacks HX 21.M7
Publication Date: London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1893
Socialism: Its Growth and Outcome
Call Number: Special Collections Stacks HX 21.M7 1913
Publication Date: Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1913
Some Hints on Pattern-Designing
Call Number: Rare Stacks TT 520.M83 1899
Publication Date: London: Longmans & Co., 1899
Printed at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type. [Walsdorf #73]
Some Notes on Early Woodcut Books, with a Chapter on Illuminated Manuscripts
Call Number: Rare Stacks Z 1023.M87 1902
Publication Date: New Rochelle, New York: Elston Press, 1902
Limited to 120 copies. [Walsdorf #94]
Some Thoughts on the Ornamented MSS. of the Middle Ages. Printed on his Hand Press, with an Account of its Travels from the Closing of the Kelmscott Press to the Present Day by William Morris
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks ND 2920.M67 1934
Publication Date: New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1934
"A modest number of copies printed damp on Arnold Unbleached" paper. This cover shows an embossed illustration of the Press and was done by Warren Chappell. [Walsdorf #145]
Stories From the Earthly Paradise by William Morris. Told in Prose, with Copius Extracts in Verse.
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5075.A3M27 1880z
Publication Date: ondon: The Masterpiece Library, "Review of Reviews" Office, n.d.
The Penny Poets-XI.
Stories from the Earthly Paradise. Retold by Madaleine Edgar.
Call Number: Rare Stacks R 5075.A3E34 1906
Publication Date: London: George C. Harrap and Co., 1906
The Story of Amis & Amile. Done out of the Ancient French into English by William Morris.
Call Number: Rare Stacks PQ 1425.A35E49 1896
Publication Date: Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1896
Limited to 425 copies. [Walsdorf #65]
The Story of Cupid and Psyche
Call Number: Special Collections Stacks PR 5078.S8 1974
Publication Date: London: Clover Hill Editions, 1974
With illustrations designed by Burne-Jones, mostly engraved on wood by William Morris. Introduction by A.R. Dufty. 2 vols. This edition was printed in Kelmscott Troy type by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. Consult Walsdorf note for details. [Walsdorf #181]
The Story of Grettr the Strong
Call Number: Rare Folio PT 7269.G6E5 1901
Publication Date: London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1901
Limited edition printed by the Chiswick Press.
The Story of Kormak, The Son of Ogmond
Call Number: Special Collections Folio
Publication Date: London: William Morris Society, 1970
With an introduction by Grace J. Calder and a Note on the Manuscript Work of William Morris by Alfred Fairbank. [Walsdorf #175]
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5077.A1 1887
Publication Date: London: Reeves and Turner, 1887
Fourth edition; one of 50 large paper copies. Brown calf binding with elaborate gilt tooling and floral elements, signed G.P. Putnam's Sons.
The Story of the Glittering Plain, which has also been called the Land of the Living Men or the Acre of the Undying by WIlliam Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5079.S7 1891b
Publication Date: Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891
Photofacsimile of the Kelmscott Press edition (the first title from the Kelmscott Press) was limited to 500 copies. [Walsdorf #57]
The Story of the Unknown Church and other Tales
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5079.S79 1902
Publication Date: Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1902
Limited to 425 copies on Japanese Vellum. [Walsdorf #101]
The Sundering Flood by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5079.S9 1897
Publication Date: London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1898
Svend and his Brethren, A Tale
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5079.S84 1901
Publication Date: Aiken, South Carolina: Palmetto Press, 1901
This is no. 7 of an edition limited to 79 copies on Kelmscott paper. [Walsdorf #91]
Svend and his Brethren. A Tale of the Ancient Days
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5079.S84 1906
Publication Date: Englewood, New Jersey: Hillside Press, 1906
Limited to 55 copies on French handmade paper. This copy is inscribed to "Mrs. Wilbur Larremore with the compliments of the printer. Englewood, November 19, 1906." [Walsdorf #111]

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The Tables Turned; or Nupkins Awakened. A Socialist Interlude
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5080.T33 1887
Publication Date: London: Office of "The Commonweal," 1887
First edition which lists on the verso of front wrapper the original cast for this comedy, including Morris as the Archbishop of Canterbury and Morris' daughter May as Mary Pinch.
The Tale of King Coustans the Emperor. Done out of the Ancient French into English
Call Number: Rare Stacks PQ 1113.T3M6 1899
Publication Date: Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1899
Limited to 425 copies on Japanese Vellum. [Walsdorf #74]
A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and Verse
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5079.T25 1890
Publication Date: Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890
First U.S. edition, completed in February 1890 shortly following the first English edition of December 1889. The typography of the title page is the same in both editions.
Tales From the Earthly Paradise by Selected and Arranged in Prose by W.J. Glover.
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks PR 5075.A37G5 1913
Publication Date: London: Adam and Charles Black, 1913
With twelve full-page illustrations in colour from drawings by Isabel Bonus.
"The Teaching of John Ruskin," "Pleasure and Health in Work," " A Medieval Church," and "Country Crafts of the Middle Ages." [Essays] Craftmen All: Some Readings in Praise of Making and Doing
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks TT 145.P4
Publication Date: Leichester: Dryad Handicrafts, 1926
Thirteenth Century Prose Tales
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks PR 5079.A2 1923
Publication Date: Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Co., 1923
Introduction by Charles J. Finger. Little Blue Book no. 352.
Three Northern Love Stories, and Other Tales Translated fromt he Icelandic. Morris, William, and Eirikr Magnusson by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson
Call Number: Rare Stacks PT 7262.E5T47 1875
Publication Date: London: Ellis and White, 1875
First edition inscribed by Morris, "Louise Baldwyn from her affectionate friend, William Morris." Pasted into the inside front cover is a reproduction of a water color by May Morris entitled "Kelmscott Manor."
True and False Society by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks HX 246.M87 1888
Publication Date: London: Socialist League Office, 1888
The Socialist Platform" : No. 6.
True and False Society by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks HX 246.M87 1893
Publication Date: London: The Hammersmith Socialist Society, 1893
With the emblem of the Hammersmith Socialist Society. Also published in 1888 by the Socialist League Office.
The Two Sides of the River. Hapless Love and the First Foray of Aristomenes
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5078.T8 1876
Publication Date: London: n.p., 1876
First edition, green paper wrappers, in morocco solander case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. A Wise forgery (see Barker and Collins, A Sequel to an Enquiry, p. 210-212). Tipped in a one page Morris holograph draft of corrections or variations on eleven lines of Hapless Love, possibly of the text on p. 13.
The Two Sides of the River and Other Sorrows
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks PR 5074.A3W55 1974
Publication Date: N.P.: Douglas Wilson, n.d. [c. 1974]
This is no. 2 of an edition limited to 21 copies. [Walsdorf #179]

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Volsunga Saga. The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs with Certain Songs from Elder Edda by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson, trans.
Call Number: Rare Stacks PT 7287.V7E55 1870
Publication Date: London: F.S. Ellis, 1870
Buxton Forman observes that "there were only 750 copies of Volsunga printed" and "The book was issued in a peculiarly fine green cloth, stamped in gold all over the sides and back from a most beautiful design by Morris." (Forman, p. 64) [Note: Binding actually by Philip Webb.] This first edition is inscribed "J.T. Nettleship from his friend William Morris." Walsdorf writes that Nettleship was an artist known for his "Blake-like illustrations." The book bears bookplates of Alfred Autro and Mark Samuels Lasner.
Volsunga Saga
Call Number: Rare Folio PT 7287.V7E55 1901
Publication Date: London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1901
Limited edition printed by the Chiswick Press.

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William Morris: Artist, Writer, Socialist
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks PR 5083.M7
Publication Date: Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1936
2 vols. A collection of Morris' previously unpublished writings and materials not included in the Collected Works. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press in an edition limited to 750 copies. [Walsdorf #147]
William Morris by Selected and Edited by Henry Newbolt
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks PR 5072.N4 1920z
Publication Date: London: Thomas Nels & Sons Ltd., n.d. (192-?]
William Morris: Stories in Prose, Stories in Verse, Shorter Poems, Lectures and Essays by Edited by G.D.H. Cole
Call Number: Special Collection Stacks PR 5072.C6
Publication Date: Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1934
Unlimited edition printed at the Camelot Press. [Walsdorf #141]
The Wood Beyond the World by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5079.W6 1895b
Publication Date: Boston: Roberts House, 1895
Limited to 500 copies. [Walsdorf #63]
The Wood Beyond the World by William Morris
Call Number: Rare Stacks PR 5079.W6 1895
Publication Date: London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1895
First edition.