William Morris - The Kelmscott Press - Publications

Publications

Among the works issued by the Kelmscott Press were:

• William Morris, The Story of the Glittering Plain (1891)
• William Morris, The Defence of Guenevere and other Poems (1892)
• William Morris, A Dream of John Ball and A King's Lesson (1892)
• Raoul Lafevre, The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye (1892)
• William Shakespeare, The Poems (1893)
• William Morris, News from Nowhere (1893)
• William Caxton (trans.), The History of Reynard the Foxe (1893)
• William Caxton (trans.), The Order of Chivalry (1893)
• Guilelmus, Archbishop of Tyre, The History of Godefrey of Boloyne (1893)
• Sir Thomas More, Utopia (1893)
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Sonnets and Lyrical Poems (1893)
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ballads and Narrative Poems (1893)
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Hand and Soul (1894)
• Wilhelm Meinhold, Sidonia the Sorceress (1894)
• William Morris, The Story of the Glittering Plain (1894)
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon (1894)
• An American Memorial to Keats (1895)
• Sir Percyvelle of Gales (1895)
• William Morris, The Life and Death of Jason (1895)
• Geoffrey Chaucer, The Works (called the Kelmscott Chaucer) (1896)
• William Morris, The Earthly Paradise (1896)
• Sir Ysumbrace (1897)
• William Morris, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (1898)

The Kelmscott Press edition of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, with decorations by Morris and illustrations by Burne-Jones, is sometimes counted among the most beautiful books ever produced. Full-scale facsimiles of the Kelmscott Chaucer were published by the Basilisk Press in 1974 and by the Folio Society in 2002. More modest facsimiles were published by World Publishing in 1964 and Omega Books in 1985.