Kelmscott press

Part of the Douglas Schoenherr donation, books and related ephemera produced by the Kelmscott Press illustrate the artistry of its founder William Morris and artists such as Edward Burne-Jones and Arthur J. Gaskin.

William Morris’s The Wood Beyond the World (1894) relates the adventures of Golden Walter, a man who seeks to escape his mundane life and sets out on a sea voyage, eventually gaining control of the kingdom of Stark-Wall and the love of a beautiful maiden. The book was published by the Kelmscott Press, a private

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Jane Morris, William Morris, May Morris, Jenny Morris, Pre Raphaelite, Dante Rossetti

'The Story of the Glittering Plain: Which Has Been Also Called the Land of Living Men or the Acre of the Undying' is a medieval tale of knightly adventure written by the Victorian polymath William Morris. The book was the first publication of Morris's Kelmscott Press. In addition to the typography, which Morris based on fonts by great 15th-century German printers, the book features his rich ornamental designs. Kelmscott revolutionised printing turning book publishing into high art.

‘The Romance of Sire Degrevant’, printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press in 1896

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1895. A detail of the beautiful work that William Morris' Kelmscott Press produced in the 1890's, England

Kelmscott manor, William Morris' home