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Morris and Kelmscott Bibliography

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1891The Story of the Glittering Plain. Which has also been called the land of living men or the acre of the undying. Written by William Morris.
1891Poems by the Way. Written by William Morris.
1892The Love-Lyrics and Songs of Proteus by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt with the Love-Sonnets of Proteus by the same author now reprinted…
1892The Nature of Gothic A Chapter of the Stones of Venice by John Ruskin.
[first printed separately in 1854 as a sixpenny pamphlet.]
1892The Defence of Guenevere, and other poems. By William Morris. [Set up from a copy of the edition published by Reeves & Turner in 1889]
1892A Dream of John Ball and a King’s Lesson by William Morris. [set up from a copy of Reeves & Turner’s third edition.
1892The Golden Legend. By Jacobus de Voragine. Translated by William Caxton. Edited by F.S. Ellis. Published by Bernard Quaritch. [based on a 1527 copy of the book by Wynkyn de Worde. [from a transcript of Caxton’s first edition, lent by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Library]. 3 vols.
1892The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. By Raoul Lefevre. Translated by William Caxton. Edited by H. Halliday Sparling. 2 vols. [First book printed in Troy type, first appearance of Chaucer type. It is a reprint of the first book printed in English.
1892Biblia Innocentium by J.W. Mackail
1893The History of Reynard the Foxe by William Caxton. Reprinted from his edition of 1481. Edited by H. Halliday Sparling. Published by Bernard Quaritch.
1893The Poems of William Shakespeare printed after original copies. Edited by F.S. Ellis.
1893News from Nowhere, William Morris. Set up from a copy of of one of Reeves & Turner’s editions.
1893The Order of Chivalry. Translated from the French by William Caxton and reprinted from his edition of 1484. Edited by F.S. Ellis.
1893The Life of Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal Archibishop of York Written by George Cavendish. Edited by F. S. Ellis from the author’s autograph MS.
1893The History of Godefrey of Boloyne and of the Conquest of Iherusalem. Reprinted from Caxton’s edition of 1481. Edited by H. Halliday Sparling. Fifth and last of the Caxton reprints.
1893Utopia. Sir Thomas More. A reprint of the second edition of Ralph Robinson’s translation, with a forward by William Morris. Edited by F.S. Ellis.
1893Maud, A Monodrama. By Alfred Lord Tennyson.
1893Gothic Architecture: A Lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by William Morris printed at the New Gallery during the Arts and Crafts exhibition in October and November, 1893.
1893Sidonia the Sorceress by William Meinhold Translated by Francesca Speranza Lady Wilde.
1893Ballads and Narrative Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
1893The Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane. Translated by William Morris from the French of the 13th century. Taken from a little volume called Nouvelles Francoises en prose du XIIIe siecle. Paris, Jannet, 1856.
1894The Story of the Glittering Plain by William Morris.
1894Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile. Done out of the ancient French by William Morris.
1894Sonnets and Lyrical Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Both volumes were read for the press by Mr. W. M. Rossetti.
1894The Poems of John Keats. Edited by F.S. Ellis.
1894Atalanta in Calydon: A Tragedy. By Algernon Charles Swinburne.
1894The Tale of the Emperor Coustans and of Over Sea. Done out of the ancient French by William Morris.
1894The Wood Beyond the World by William Morris.
1894The Book of Wisdom and Lies. A gook of traditional stories from Georgia in Asia. Translated by Oliver Wardrop from the original of Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani. Published by Bernard Quaritch.
1894The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I. Edited by F. S. Ellis.
1894Psalmi Penitentiales. And English rhymed version of the Seven Penitential Psalms. Edited by F. S. Ellis. Taken from a manuscript Book of Hours written at Gloucester in the first half of the fifteenth century, but the Re. Professor Skeat has pointed out that the scribe must have copied them from an older manuscript, as they are in the Kentish dialect of about a century earlier.
1894Epistola de Contemptu Mundi di Frate Hieronymo da Ferrara Dellordine de Frati Predicatori la quale manda ad elena buonaccorsisua madre per consolarla della morte del fratello, Suo Zio. Edited by Charles Fairfax Murry from the original autograph letter. Printed for Mr. C. Fairfax Murry, the owner of the manuscript.
1895The Tale of Beowulf. Done out of the Old English tonuge by William Morris and A. J. Wyatt.
1895Syr Perecyvelle of Gales. Overseen by F.S. Ellis after the edition edited by J.O. Halliwell from the Thornton MS in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral
1895The Life and Death of Jason, A Poem. By William Morris. The text, which had been corrected for the second edition of 1868, and for the edition of 1882, was again revised by the author.
1895The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Vol. II. Edited by F. S. Ellis.
1895Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair. By William Morris. 2 vols.
1895The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III. Edited by F. S. Ellis.
1895Hand and Soul. By Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Reprinted from The Germ for Messrs. Way & Williams, of Chicago. Shoulder-notes added by Mr. Morris.
1896Poems Chosen out of the Works of Robert Herrick. Edited by F. S. Ellis.
1896Poems Chosen out of the Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by F. S. Ellis. It is the last of the series to which Tennyson’s Maud and the Poems of Rossetti, Keats, Helley, and Herrick belong.
1896The Well at the World’s End. By William Morris. The edition published by Longmans was then being printed from the author’s manuscript at the Chiswick Press, and the Kelmscott Press edition was set up from the sheets of that edition.
1896The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Edited by F. S. Ellis.
1896The Earthly Paradise. By William Morris. Volume I. Prologue: The Wanderers., March: Atalanta’s Race. The Man born to be king. Seven volumes follow.
1896Latin poems taken from a Psalter written in England about A.D. 1220. Edited by S. C. Cockerell. Previously printed at Tegernsee in 1579 attributed to Stephen Langton.
1896The Earthly Paradise. By William Morris. Volume II. April: The Doom of King Acrisius. The Proud King.
1896The Floure and the Leafe, and the Boke of Cupide, God of Love, or the Cuckow and the Nightingale. Edited by F. S. Ellis. The poems were formerly attributed to Chaucer, but recent scholarship has proved that the Floure and the Leafe is much later than Chaucer, and that The Cuckow and the Nightingale was written by Sir Thomas Clanvowe about A.D. 1405-10.
1896The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Twelve Aeglogues, propotionateable to the twelve monethes. By Edmund Spenser. With twelve full-page illustrations by A. J. Gaskin.
1896The Earthly Paradise. By William Morris. Volume III. May: The Story of Cupid and Psyche. The writing on the Image. June: The Love of Alcestis. The Lady of the Land.
1896The Earthly Paradise. By William Morris. Volume IV. July: The Son of Croesus. The Watching of the Falcon. August: Pygmalion and the Image. Ogier the Dane.
1897The Earthly Paradise. By William Morris. Volume V. September: The Death of Paris. The Land East of the Sun and West of the Moon. October: The Story of Acontius and Cydippe. The Man Who Never Laughed Again.
1897The Earthly Paradise. By William Morris. Volume VI. November: The Story of Rhodope. The Lovers of Gudrun.
1897The Earthly Paradise. By William Morris. Volume VII. December: The Golden Apples The Fostering of Aslaug., January: Bellerophon at Argos. The Ring Given to Venus.
1897The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris. Another edition was published by Longmans on Oct., 1897.
1897The Earthly Paradise. By William Morris. Volume VIII. February: Bellerophon in Lycia. The Hill of Venus. Epilogue. L’Envoi.
1897Two Trial Pages of the Projected Edition of Lord Berners’ Translation of Froissart’s Chronicles.
1897Sire Degrevaunt. Edited by F. S. Ellis after the edition printed by J. O. Halliwell.
1897Syr Ysambrace. Edited by F. S. Ellis after the edition printed by J. O. Halliwell from teh MS. in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral, with some corrections. This is the third and last of the reprints from the Camden Society’s volume of Thornton Romances.
1898Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century Being thirty-five reproductions from books that were in the library of the late William Morris. Edited, with a list of principal woodcut books in that library, by S.C. Cockerell.
1898The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of Niblungs by William Morris. Morris considered his masterpiece.
1898The Sundering Flood Written by William Morris. The last romance by William Morris.
1898Love is Enough, or the Freeing of Pharamond: A Morality. Written by William Morris. Second book printed in three colors.
1898A Note by William Morris on his aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press. Together with a short description of the press by S. C. Cockerell, and an annotated list of the books printed thereat.

William Morris Bibliography

Collected poetry, fiction, and essays

  • The Hollow Land (1856)
  • The Defence of Guenevere, and other Poems (1858)
  • The Life and Death of Jason (1867)
  • The Earthly Paradise (1868–1870)
  • A Book of Verse (1870)
  • Love is Enough, or The Freeing of Pharamond: A Morality (1872)
  • The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (1877)
  • Hopes and Fears For Art (1882)
  • The Pilgrims of Hope (1885)
  • A Dream of John Ball (1888)
  • Signs of Change (1888)
  • A Tale of the House of the Wolfings, and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse (1889)
  • The Roots of the Mountains (1889)
  • News from Nowhere (or, An Epoch of Rest) (1890)
  • The Story of the Glittering Plain (1891)
  • Poems By the Way (1891)
  • Socialism: Its Growth and Outcome (1893) (with E. Belfort Bax)
  • The Wood Beyond the World (1894)
  • Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair (1895)
  • The Well at the World’s End (1896)
  • The Water of the Wondrous Isles (1897)
  • The Sundering Flood (1897) (published posthumously)
  • A King’s Lesson (1901)
  • The World of Romance (1906)
  • Chants for Socialists (1935)
  • Golden Wings and Other Stories (1976)

Translations

  • Grettis Saga: The Story of Grettir the Strong with Eiríkur Magnússon (1869)
  • The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-tongue and Raven the Skald with Eiríkur Magnússon (1869)
  • The Völsunga Saga: The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs, with Certain Songs from the Elder Edda with Eiríkur Magnússon(1870) (from the Volsunga saga)
  • Three Northern Love Stories, and Other Tales with Eiríkur Magnússon (1875)
  • The Aeneids of Virgil Done into English (1876)
  • The Odyssey of Homer Done into English Verse (1887)
  • Of King Florus and the Fair Jehane (1893)
  • The Tale of Beowulf Done out of the Old English Tongue (1895)
  • Old French Romances Done into English (1896)

Other

  • Lectures on Art delivered in support of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (Morris lecture on The Lesser Arts). London, Macmillan, 1882
  • Architecture and History & Westminster Abbey. Papers read to the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in 1884 and 1893. Printed at The Chiswick Press. London, Longmans, 1900