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Total number of records: 36

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Books and printed items28
Indexes5
Archives3

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Brotherton Collection28
Letters Database6
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection2
Herbert Read Collection1
Incunabula1

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socialism7
architecture, gothic3
arts and crafts movement2
letter writing2
anglo-saxon poetry1
art1
bookbinding1
chivalry1
manuscripts, english1
printing1

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London, United Kingdom2
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Morris, William36
Morris, William (1834-1896)28
Kelmscott Press13
Cowden Clarke, Charles4
Ellis, Frederick Startridge4
Ellis, Frederick Startridge (1830-1901)4
Eirikr Magnusson3
Eirikr Magnusson (1833-1913)3
Hyndman, H M (1842-1921)3
Ruskin, John3

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Cowden Clarke, Charles to Morris, William

Aug 1868

Handwritten draft of a letter from Charles Cowden Clarke to the designer, poet and artist William Morris, praising Morris's poems 'The Life and Death of Jason' and 'The Earthly Paradise' and mentionin...

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Morris, William to Cowden Clarke, Charles

Aug 1858

Handwritten letter from the designer, poet and artist William Morris to Charles Cowden Clarke, thanking Cowden Clarke for his letter and sympathy for his work, noting Cowden Clarke's connection to Kea...

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Sender: Cowden Clarke, Charles

Recipient: Morris, William

Letters: 1

Date(s): Aug 1858

Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection

Note: Rough Draft. In W. Morris's "Earthly Paradise".

Sender: Morris, William

Recipient: Cowden Clarke, Charles

Letters: 1

Date(s): 17 Sep 1868

Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection

Note: In W. Morris's "Earthly Paradise".


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The nature of Gothic : a chapter of The stones of Venice

Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Morris, William (1834-1896); Kelmscott Press

1892

First edition.

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The nature of Gothic : a chapter of The stones of Venice

Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Morris, William (1834-1896); Kelmscott Press

1892

First edition.

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The story of Grettir the Strong

Eiríkr Magnússon (1833-1913); Morris, William (1834-1896); Chiswick Press

1901

Colophon: Here ends The story of Grettir the Strong, translated from the Icelandic by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris. First printed in 1869, and now reprinted at the Chiswick Press with the Golde...

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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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The tale of Beowulf

Morris, William (1834-1896); Wyatt, A J (1858-1954); Kelmscott Press

1895

Colophon: 'Done out of the Old English tongue by William Morris and A. J. Wyatt'. Limited edition of 300 paper copies and 8 vellum copies. Printing: printed in black and red. Imprint taken from ...

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Psalmi penitentiales

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

1894

Edition limited to 300 copies. From Colophon "...this rhymed version of the Penitential Psalms found in manuscript of Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis, written at Gloucester about the year 1440..." Im...

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The tale of the Emperor Coustans and of Over sea

Morris, William (1834-1896); Kelmscott Press

1894

Colophon: 'Done out of ancient French and into English by William Morris'.

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