London: Faber & Faber, 1958 (1959 printing). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 116 pages. Second impression of first edition. Illustrated. An important study. Price clipped. READ MORE about MODERN BOOK DESIGN FROM WILLIAM MORRIS TO THE PRESENT DAY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 34929
Fairlawn, NJ: Essential Books, 1959. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 116 pages. First U.S. edition. Illustrated. An important study. Jacket has small pieces missing along edge and is foxed. Pastedowns and endpapers also show foxing. READ MORE about MODERN BOOK DESIGN FROM WILLIAM MORRIS TO THE PRESENT DAY
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 60462
Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell Books, (1987). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 192 pages. Examines the influences on the Graphic Arts, from William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement to the present day. Well illustrated, most in color. READ MORE about GRAPHIC DESIGN SOURCE BOOK With an introduction by F.H.K. Henrion
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 24159
London: The Merrythought Press, 1963. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper title label. Unpaginated. Limited to 124 copies. Traces the ownership of the twelfth-century illuminated Psalter known as The Golden Psalter from its ownership by Richard Heber in the early 1830s. It was owned by several famous collectors, including William Morris, before it was given by Sir Sydney Cockerell to Mr. Cron in 1956. The color frontispiece shows, in original size, the beginning of Psalm..... READ MORE about THE RECENT OWNERS OF THE GOLDEN PSALTER
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 48167
Roswell, Georgia: The Hillside Press, 1983. miniature book (6 x 5.2 cm). cloth. (vi), vi, 56, (2) pages. Limited to 275 numbered copies signed by Mrs. Irwin of the Hillside Press; the first production of the press after its move to Georgia (Bradbury, Hillside, 58). With two handpainted devices after Morris on the endpapers. Reprints Mackail's life of Morris as given to the Hammersmith Socialist Society. Illustrated. READ MORE about WILLIAM MORRIS
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 2533
London: The Sylvan Press, 1949. tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 106 pages. First edition. Reprints THE TYPOGRAPHIC ARTS and THE ART OF PRINTING. (Appleton no.148c). With information on William Morris throughout. Jacket soiled and chipped with piece missing at head of spine. READ MORE about THE TYPOGRAPHIC ARTS, TWO LECTURES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 41995
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950. tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 106 pages. First U.S. edition. Reprints The Typographic Artsand The Art of Printing. (Appleton no.148c). With information on William Morris throughout. Jacket has pieces missing along edges. READ MORE about THE TYPOGRAPHIC ARTS, TWO LECTURES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 128441
University of Tampa Press, 2007. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 73 pages. The founding of the Kelmscott Press by William Morris in the late 19th century reinvigorated the world of printing and book arts. Morris's exceptional skill as a designer and printer owed much to his careful study of printing and its history. His knowledge served him well when he wrote his seminal essays on the subject. Richard Mathews, the Director of the University of Tampa..... READ MORE about THE IDEAL BOOK: THREE ESSAYS ON BOOKS AND PRINTING BY WILLIAM MORRIS / EDITED WITH AN...
Price: $14.00 Order nr. 116372
(Surrey, UK: William Morris Society, 1961). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 16 pages. A complete list of the published public addresses of William Morris, excluding newspaper reports, from 1877 until the end of his life, prefaced by an eight-page introduction. Morris devoted much of his time and energy to speaking in public, averaging almost 50 lectures yearly from 1884 to 1890, frequently billed as "The Author of the Earthly Paradise." Printed at the Dolmen Press..... READ MORE about A HANDLIST OF THE PUBLIC ADDRESSES OF WILLIAM MORRIS TO BE FOUND IN GENERALLY ACCESSIBLE...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 71778
London: William Morrris Society, 1989. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 32 pages. Sixth Annual Kelmscott Lecture. Illustrated. Uncommon pamphlet. READ MORE about MORRIS AND THE PRINTED BOOK, A RECONSTRUCTION OF HIS VIEWS ON TYPE AND BOOK DESIGN IN THE LIGHT...
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 32636
New York: The Typophiles, 1976. tall 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 26 pages. One of 850 copies of this Typophile Monograph. A semi- biographical talk about the Morris' many activities besides printing. It was given at the Annual Typophiles Christmas luncheon in 1974. READ MORE about ON THE HERITAGE OF WILLIAM MORRIS, SOME CONSIDERATIONS TYPOGRAPHIC & OTHERWISE
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 20827
N.P. (The William Morris Society, 1974). small 4to. paper wrappers. (28) pages. Limited to 300 copies. A series of different essays on Morris. Published for the William Morris Society and meant as a gift to the Typophiles. READ MORE about ANCOATS BROTHERHOOD FOLDER
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 16973
Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1993. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xv+(i), 294 pages. Katherine Lochnan of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Douglas Schoenherr of the National Gallery of Canada, and Carole Silver of Yeshiva University, New York, have joined forces to identify, select, and bring together a representative group of works from Canadian collectors. Contains nearly three thousand photographs, half in full color, and a dozen essays dealing with every facet of Morris's work. An..... READ MORE about THE EARTHLY PARADISE,ARTS AND CRAFTS BY WILLIAM MORRIS AND HIS CIRCLES FROM CANADIAN COLLECTIONS
Price: $38.00 Order nr. 55555
New York: Burt Franklin, (1969). 8vo. cloth. xv, 224 pages. Reprint of the 1897 first edition. A annotated bibliography. READ MORE about THE BOOKS OF WILLIAM MORRIS, DESCRIBED WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS DOINGS IN LITERATURE AND IN THE...
Price: $14.00 Order nr. 7044
New York: The Macmillan Company, (1962). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 288 pages. First American edition. The chapter "A Symposium of Styles" examines the links between Art Nouveau and the Pre-Raphaelites. Some mention of William Morris. Illustrated. Edgewear to dust jacket. READ MORE about THE SATURDAY BOOK 22
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 58145
London: The William Morris Society, 1960. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 31 pages. Printed at the Dolmen Press. READ MORE about THE MEDIEVAL VISION OF WILLIAM MORRIS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 6200
Exeter, NH: The Colophon Book Shop, 1996. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers with cloth taped-spine. 143+(1) pages. Well printed sales catalogue describing the collection of John J. Walsdorf. With a one page preface by Walsdorf. READ MORE about KELMSCOTT PRESS, WILLIAM MORRIS & HIS CIRCLE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 56267
By S.C. Cockerell.
New York: Typophiles, The, 1984. small 8vo. self paper wrappers. 32 pages. By S.C. Cockerell. Facsimiles of both these histories. Illustrated. READ MORE about THE KELMSCOTT PRESS: 1891 TO 1898 A NOTE BY WILLIAM MORRIS ON HIS AIMS IN FOUNDING THE KELMSCOTT...
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 2995
A lecture given to the William Morris Society on the 14th November 1958 at Caxton Hall, London
London: William Morris Society, 1961. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 29+(1) pages. A lecture given to the William Morris Society on the 14th November 1958 at Caxton Hall, London. Lecture about William Morris as a poet rather than about his more well known abilities as a craftsman, designer, and typographer. Spine split one inch from head, edges frayed, wrappers slightly soiled. READ MORE about WILLIAM MORRIS, WRITER
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 92392
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1907. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 22+(1) pages. A Lecture delivered in the Examination Schools, Oxford, at the Summer Meeting of the University Extension Delegacy on August 6, 1907. Some paper loss of covers and cover coming loose. READ MORE about WILLIAM MORRIS AND HIS CIRCLE
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 101515
8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 24 pages. Reprinted from the International Review of Social History, 1971, Vol. XVI, Part 2. READ MORE about AN UNPUBLISHED LECTURE OF WILLIAM MORRIS; "HOW SHALL WE LIVE THEN."
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 96452
Los Angeles: Roxburghe-Zamorano Club, 1986. 9.5" x 12.5" Single sheet. Printed in an edition limited to 200 copies from a letter from The Sanford & Helen Berger Collection, printed at The Scenic Road Press. Morris writes to Dearle about estimates for the east window. READ MORE about WILLIAM MORRIS'S LETTER TO DEARLE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 58243
N.P. Macdonald Orbis, (1988). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 328 pages. First edition. A study of Morris's life through his own words and work. Contains extracts from his letters, poems, etc. Lavishly illustrated throughout with over 200 color plates. Many of the illustrations have never been reproduced before. A nice book. READ MORE about WILLIAM MORRIS BY HIMSELF, DESIGNS AND WRITINGS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 61086
N.P. Gallery 303, n.d. 8vo. self paper wrappers. (16) pages. Keepsake supplied by Gallery 303 to the participants in the Heritage Series. READ MORE about A NOTE BY WILLIAM MORRIS ON HIS AIMS IN FOUNDING THE KELMSCOTT PRESS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 16431
Edited by Willam S. Peterson.
New York: The Grolier Club, 1996. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover. 78 pages. Edited by Willam S. Peterson. To celebrate the Morris centenary year, the Grolier Club and the William Morris Society in the United States published this enlarged and corrected version of the very last book published by the Kelmscott Press. This autobiographical history of Morris and his Kelmscott Press includes passages related to Morris's approaches to paper, type design, ink, page design and..... READ MORE about A NOTE BY WILLIAM MORRIS ON HIS AIMS IN FOUNDING THE KELMSCOTT PRESS
Price: $45.00 save 20% $36.00 Order nr. 106615
