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Morris, William (1834-1896)48
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Ellis, Frederick Startridge18
Morris, William12
Caxton, William10
Caxton, William (1422-1491)10
Jacobus De Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298)6
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[Two trial pages of the projected edition of Lord Berners' translation of Froissart.] (oversize, folio)

Morris, William (1834-1896); Froissart, Jean (1338?-1410?); Morris, William (1834-1896); Berners, John Bourchier Baron (1533); Brotherton, Sir Edward Allen (1856-1930)

[1897]

Printed on the first recto: These two trial pages of the projected edition of Lord Berners' translation of Froissart were printed at the Kelmscott Press in September, 1897, to preserve the designs mad...

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Of the friendship of Amis and Amile

Morris, William (1834-1896); Kelmscott Press

1894

Limited edition of 500 copies.

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News from nowhere : or, An epoch of rest, being some chapters from a Utopian romance

Morris, William (1834-1896); Kelmscott Press

1892

Edition limited to 300 copies.

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The poems of William Shakespeare : printed after the original copies of Venus and Adonis, 1593. The rape of Lucrece, 1594. Sonnets, 1609. The lover's complaint

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Ellis, Frederick Startridge (1830-1901); Morris, William (1834-1896); Kelmscott Press

... and finished on the 17th day of January, 1893

Edited by Frederick S. Ellis.

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Syr Ysambrace

Ellis, Frederick Startridge (1830-1901); Kelmscott Press

1897

Edited by F. S. Ellis from the Camden Society edition of 'The Thornton Romances' edited by J. O. Halliwell, London 1844. Limited edition of 350 paper copies and 8 vellum copies. Printing: printed ...

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Poems chosen out of the works of Robert Herrick

Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Ellis, Frederick Startridge (1830-1901); Kelmscott Press

1895

Limited edition of 250 paper copies and 8 vellum copies. Imprint taken from colophon. Edited by F. S. Ellis from the 1648 edition. Printing: printed in black and red. Index. Indexed in: Cock...

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The wood beyond the world

Morris, William (1834-1896); Kelmscott Press

1894

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The Golden legend (v. 1)

Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298); Caxton, William (1422-1491); Ellis, Frederick Startridge (1830-1901); Kelmscott Press

1892

One of 500 copies. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 325-6. Decorated initials. Translated by William Caxton.

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The Golden legend (v. 2)

Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298); Caxton, William (1422-1491); Ellis, Frederick Startridge (1830-1901); Kelmscott Press

1892

One of 500 copies. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 325-6. Decorated initials. Translated by William Caxton.

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The Golden legend (v. 3)

Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298); Caxton, William (1422-1491); Ellis, Frederick Startridge (1830-1901); Kelmscott Press

1892

One of 500 copies. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 325-6. Decorated initials. Translated by William Caxton.

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The history of Godefrey of Boloyne and of the conquest of Iherusalem

William of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre (1130-1190); Caxton, William (1422-1492); Sparling, H Halliday; Morris, William (1834-1896); Kelmscott Press

1893

"This new edition of William Caxton's Godeffroy of Boloyne, done after the first edition, was corrected for the press by H. Halliday Sparling, and printed by me, William Morris, at the Kelmscott Press...

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The shepheardes calender: : conteyning twelve æglogues, proportionable to the twelve monethes

Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599); Ellis, Frederick Startridge (1830-1901); Gaskin, Arthur Joseph (1862-1928); Kelmscott Press; Walker and Boutall

1896

Edition: first published: London 1579. Imprint taken from colophon. Limited edition of 225 paper copies and 6 vellum copies. Printing: printed in black and red. Illustrations: twelve illustrat...

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