Note William Morris Aims Founding by Kelmscott Press (4 results)
More imagesPublished by London County Council, Central School of Arts & Crafts [nd].
Seller: Adam Mills Rare Books, Cambridge, United KingdomAdam Mills Rare Books
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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.
More imagesPublished by Trustees of the Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1898
- Hardcover
Seller: SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS, ABA, ILAB, LONDON, United KingdomSOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS, ABA, ILAB
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One of 525 copies printed on paper (a further 12 copies were printed on vellum). Wood engraved frontispiece designed by Edward Burne-Jones and engraved by William Morris with a border on the first page of text, 3 ornaments (originally rejected for Love is Enough) and 4 initials (designed for the Froissart Chronicles) by William…Morris, engraved by Hooper. Printed in red and black in Golden type on Batchelor hand-made paper. 8vo., original quarter holland (linen backed blue paper covered boards), title printed in black on the upper cover. A superb, fresh copy housed in a contemporary drop-top box of brown morocco, lined with marbled paper, gilt lettering on spine with the title declaring this to be 'Manuscript' (sadly just a printed copy) The final posthumous publication from the Kelmscott Press and what is effectively William Morris's printing manifesto. The bibliography is very interesting as the notes by Cockerell give quite detailed of the history of each book's publication and production. Our copy is the Doheny copy with the green morocco and gilt booklabel on the front pastedown. A typed description from the Pasadena woman bookseller Alice Millard, under the name of George M. Millard Rare and Fine Imported Books is inserted loose and a pencil note at the rear declares this was bought from Millard in May 1934.
More imagesPublished by Sold by the Trustees of the late William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1898
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.Heritage Book Shop, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerHammersmith: 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. KELMSCOTT PRESS (illustrator). Signed.
More imagesA 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
(KELMSCOTT PRESS). MORRIS, WILLIAM and SYDNEY CARLYLE COCKERELL
Published by Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1898
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA)
Contact seller3-star seller210 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 dec…orative 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).
