Chapter XII: The End (2)

As far back as June 11, 1891, Mr. Morris spoke of printing a Chaucer
with a black-letter fount, which he hoped to design. Four months
later, when most of the Troy type was designed and cut, he expressed
his intention to use it first on John Ball, and then on a Chaucer,
and perhaps a _Gesta Romanorum_. By January 1, 1892, the Troy type was
delivered, and early in that month two trial pages, one from _The
Cook's Tale_ and one from _Sir Thopas_, the latter in double columns,
were got out. It then became evident that the type was too large for a
Chaucer, and Mr. Morris decided to have it re-cut in the size known as
pica. By the end of June he was thus in possession of the type which,
in the list issued in December, 1892, he named the Chaucer type. In
July, 1892, another trial page, a passage from _The Knight's Tale_, in
double columns of fifty-eight lines, was got out, and found to be
satisfactory. The idea of the Chaucer as it now exists, with
illustrations by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, then took definite shape.

In a proof of the first list, dated April, 1892, there is an
announcement of the book as in preparation, in black-letter, large
quarto, but this was struck out, and does not appear in the list as
printed in May, nor yet in the July list. In that for December, 1892,
it is announced for the first time as to be in Chaucer type "with
about sixty designs by E. Burne-Jones." The next list, dated March 9,
1893, states that it will be a folio, and that it is in the press, by
which was meant that a few pages were in type. In the list dated
August 1, 1893, the probable price is given as twenty pounds. The next
four lists contain no fresh information, but on August 17, 1894, nine
days after the first sheet was printed, a notice was sent to the trade
that there would be 325 copies at twenty pounds, and about sixty
woodcut designs by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Three months later it was
decided to increase the number of illustrations to upwards of seventy,
and to print another 100 copies of the book. A circular letter was
sent to the subscribers on November 14th, stating this, and giving
them an opportunity of cancelling their orders. Orders were not
withdrawn, the extra copies were immediately taken up, and the list
for December 1, 1894, which is the first containing full particulars,
announces that all paper copies are sold.[20]

Mr. Morris began designing his first folio border on February 1, 1893,
but was dissatisfied with the design and did not finish it. Three days
later he began the vine border for the first page, and finished it in
about a week, together with the initial word "Whan," the two lines of
heading, and the frame for the first picture, and Mr. Hooper engraved
the whole of these on one block. The first picture was engraved at
about the same time. A specimen of the first page (differing slightly
from the same page as it appears in the book) was shown at the Arts
and Crafts Exhibition in October and November, 1893, and was issued to
a few leading booksellers, but it was not until August 8, 1894, that
the first sheet was printed at 14, Upper Mall. On January 8, 1895,
another press was started at 21, Upper Mall, and from that time two
presses were almost exclusively at work on the Chaucer. By September
10th, the last page of _The Romaunt of the Rose_ was printed. In the
middle of February, 1896, Mr. Morris began designing the title. It was
finished on the 27th of the same month and engraved by Mr. Hooper in
March. On May 8th, a year and nine months after the printing of the
first sheet, the book was completed. On June 2nd, the first two copies
were delivered to Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Mr. Morris. Mr. Morris's
copy is now at Exeter College, Oxford, with other books printed at the
Kelmscott Press.

Besides the eighty-seven illustrations designed by Sir Edward
Burne-Jones, and engraved by W. H. Hooper, the Chaucer contains a
woodcut title, fourteen large borders, eighteen different frames
around the illustrations, and twenty-six large initial words designed
for the book by William Morris. Many of these were engraved by C. E.
Keats, and others by W. H. Hooper and W. Spielmeyer.

In February, 1896, a notice was issued respecting special bindings, of
which Mr. Morris intended to design four.

Two of these were to have been executed under Mr. Cobden-Sanderson's
direction at the Doves Bindery, and two by Messrs. J. & J. Leighton.
But the only design that he was able to complete was for a full white
pigskin binding, which has now been carried out at the Doves Bindery
on forty-eight copies, including two on vellum.[21]

41. _The Earthly Paradise._ By WILLIAM MORRIS. Volume I. _Prologue: The Wanderers._ March: _Atalanta's Race. The Man Born to be King._ Medium 4to. Golden type. In black and red. Borders 27a, 27, 28a, and 28, and woodcut title. 225 on paper at thirty shillings, 6 on vellum at seven guineas. Dated May 7, issued July 24, 1896. Published by William Morris. Bound in limp vellum.

This was the first book printed on the paper with the apple
water-mark. The seven other volumes followed it at intervals of a few
months. None of the ten borders used in the _Earthly Paradise_ appear
in any other book. The four different half-borders round the poems to
the months are also not used elsewhere. The first border was designed
in June, 1895.

42. _Laudes Beatae Mariae Virginis._ Latin poems taken from a Psalter written in England about A.D. 1220. Edited by S. C. Cockerell. Large 4to. Troy type. In black, red, and blue. 250 on paper at ten shillings, 10 on vellum at two guineas. Dated July 7, issued August 7, 1896. Published by William Morris. Bound in half holland.

This was the first book printed at the Kelmscott Press in three
colours.[22] The manuscript from which the poems were taken was one of
the most beautiful of the English books in Mr. Morris's possession,
both as regards writing and ornament. No author's name is given to the
poems, but after this book was issued the Rev. E. S. Dewick pointed
out that they had already been printed at Tegernsee in 1579, in a 16mo
volume in which they are ascribed to Stephen Langton. A note to this
effect was printed in the Chaucer type in December 28, 1896, and
distributed to the subscribers.

41a. _The Earthly Paradise._ By WILLIAM MORRIS. Volume II. April: _The Doom of King Acrisius. The Proud King._ Medium 4to. Golden type. In black and red. Borders 29a, 29, 28a, and 28. 225 on paper at thirty shillings, 6 on vellum at seven guineas. Dated June 24, issued September 17, 1896. Published by William Morris. Bound in limp vellum.

43. _The Floure and the Leafe, and The Boke of Cupide, God of Love, or The Cuckow and the Nightingale._ Edited by F. S. Ellis. Medium 4to. Troy type, with note and colophon in Chaucer type. In black and red. 300 on paper at ten shillings, 10 on vellum at two guineas. Dated August 21, issued November 2, 1896. Published at the Kelmscott Press. Bound in half holland.

Two of the initial words from the Chaucer are used in this book, one
at the beginning of each poem. These poems were formerly attributed to
Chaucer, but recent scholarship has proved that _The Floure and the
Leafe_ is much later than Chaucer, and that _The Cuckow and the
Nightingale_ was written by Sir Thomas Clanvowe about A.D. 1405-10.

44. _The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Twelve Aeglogues, Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes._ By EDMUND SPENCER. Edited by F. S. Ellis. Medium 4to. Golden type. In black and red. With twelve full page illustrations by A. J. Gaskin. 225 on paper at a guinea, 6 on vellum at three guineas. Dated October 14, issued November 26, 1896. Published at the Kelmscott Press. Bound in half holland.

The illustrations in this book were printed from process blocks by
Walker & Boutall. By an oversight, the names of author, editor, and
artist were omitted from the colophon.

41b. _The Earthly Paradise._ By WILLIAM MORRIS. Volume III. May: _The Story of Cupid and Psyche. The Writing on the Image._ June: _The Love of Alcestis. The Lady of the Land._ Medium 4to. Golden type. In black and red. Borders 30a, 30, 27a, 27, 28a, 28, 29a, and 29. 225 on paper at thirty shillings, 6 on vellum at seven guineas. Dated August 24, issued December 5, 1896. Published at the Kelmscott Press. Bound in limp vellum.

41c. _The Earthly Paradise._ By WILLIAM MORRIS. Volume IV. July: _The Son of Croesus. The Watching of the Falcon._ August: _Pygmalion and the Image. Ogier the Dane._ Medium 4to. Golden type. In black and red. Borders 31a, 31, 29a, 29, 28a, 28, 30a, and 30. Dated November 25, 1896, issued January 22, 1897. Published at the Kelmscott Press. Bound in limp vellum.

41d. _The Earthly Paradise._ By WILLIAM MORRIS. Volume V. September. _The Death of Paris. The Land East of the Sun and West of the Moon._ October: _The Story of Acontius and Cydippe. The Man Who Never Laughed Again._ Medium 4to. Golden type. In black and red. Borders 29a, 29, 27a, 27, 28a, 28, 31a, and 31. Finished December 24, 1896, issued March 9, 1897. Published at the Kelmscott Press. Bound in limp vellum.

41e. _The Earthly Paradise._ By WILLIAM MORRIS. Volume VI. November: _The Story of Rhodope. The Lovers of Gudrun._ Medium 4to. Golden type. In black and red. Borders 27a, 27, 30a, and 30. Finished February 18, issued May 11, 1897. Published at the Kelmscott Press. Bound in limp vellum.

41f. _The Earthly Paradise._ By WILLIAM MORRIS. Volume VII. December: _The Golden Apples. The Fostering of Aslaug._ January: _Bellerophon at Argos. The Ring Given to Venus._ Medium 4to. Golden type. In black and red. Borders 29a, 29, 31a, 31, 30a, 30, 27a, and 27. Finished March 17, issued July 29, 1897. Published at the Kelmscott Press. Bound in limp vellum.

45. _The Water of the Wondrous Isles._ By WILLIAM MORRIS. Large 4to. Chaucer type, in double columns, with a few lines in Troy type at the end of each of the seven parts. In black and red. Borders 16a, 17a, 18a, 19, and 19a. 250 on paper at three guineas, 6 on vellum at twelve guineas. Dated April 1, issued July 29, 1897. Published at the Kelmscott Press. Bound in limp vellum.

Unlike _The Well at the World's End_, with which it is mainly uniform,
this book has red shoulder-notes and no illustrations. Mr. Morris
began the story in verse on February 4, 1895. A few days later he
began it afresh in alternate prose and verse; but he was again
dissatisfied, and finally began it a third time in prose alone, as it
now stands. It was first announced as in the press in the list of June
1, 1896, at which date the early chapters were in type, although they
were not printed until about a month later. The designs for the
initial words "Whilom" and "Empty" were begun by William Morris
shortly before his death, and were finished by R. Catterson-Smith.
Another edition was published by Longmans on October 1, 1897.

41g. _The Earthly Paradise._ By WILLIAM MORRIS. Volume VIII. February: _Bellerophon in Lycia. The Hill of Venus. Epilogue. L'Envoi._ Medium 4to. Golden type. In black and red. Borders 28a, 28, 29a, and 29. Finished June 10, issued September 27, 1897. Published at the Kelmscott Press. Bound in limp vellum.

The colophon of this final volume of _The Earthly Paradise_ contains
the following note: "The borders in this edition of _The Earthly
Paradise_ were designed by William Morris, except those on page 4 of
Volumes ii., iii., and iv., afterwards repeated, which were designed
to match the opposite borders, under William Morris's direction, by R.
Catterson-Smith, who also finished the initial words 'Whilom' and
'Empty' for _The Water of the Wondrous Isles_. All the other letters,
borders, title-pages, and ornaments used at the Kelmscott Press,
except the Greek type in _Atalanta in Calydon_, were designed by
William Morris."

46. Two trial pages of the projected edition of Lord Berners's Translation of Froissart's Chronicles. Folio. Chaucer type, with heading in Troy type. In black and red. Border 32, containing the shields of France, the Empire, and England, and a half-border containing those of Reginald, Lord Cobham, Sir John Chandos, and Sir Walter Manny. 160 on vellum at a guinea, none on paper. Dated September, issued October 7, 1897. Published at the Kelmscott Press. Not bound.

It was the intention of Mr. Morris to make this edition of what was
since his college days almost his favourite book a worthy companion to
the Chaucer. It was to have been in two volumes folio, with new cusped
initials and heraldic ornament throughout. Each volume was to have had
a large frontispiece designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones; the subject
of the first was to have been St. George, that of the second Fame. A
trial page was set up in the Troy type soon after it came from the
foundry, in January, 1892. Early in 1893 trial pages were set up in
the Chaucer type, and in the list for March 9th of that year the book
is erroneously stated to be in the press. In the three following lists
it is announced as in preparation. In the list dated December 1, 1893,
and in the three next lists, it is again announced as in the press,
and the number to be printed is given as 150. Meanwhile the printing
of the Chaucer had been begun, and as it was not feasible to carry on
two folios at the same time, the Froissart again comes under the
heading "in preparation" in the lists from December 1, 1894, to June
1, 1896. In the prospectus of _The Shepheardes Calender_, dated
November 12, 1896, it is announced as abandoned. At that time about
thirty-four pages were in type, but no sheet had been printed. Before
the type was broken up, on December 24, 1896, thirty-two copies of
sixteen of these pages were printed and given as a memento to personal
friends of the poet and printer whose death now made the completion of
the book impossible. This suggested the idea of printing two pages for
wider distribution. The half-border had been engraved in April, 1894,
by W. Spielmeyer, but the large border only existed as a drawing. It
was engraved with great skill and spirit by C. E. Keates, and the two
pages were printed by Stephen Mowlem, with the help of an apprentice,
in a manner worthy of the designs.

47. _Sire Degrevaunt._ Edited by F. S. Ellis after the edition printed by J. O. Halliwell. 8vo. Chaucer type. In black and red. Borders 1a and 1, and a woodcut designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. 350 on paper at fifteen shillings, 8 on vellum at four guineas. Dated March 14, 1896, issued November 12, 1897. Published at the Kelmscott Press. Bound in half holland.

This book, subjects from which were painted by Sir Edward Burne-Jones
on the walls of the Red House, Upton, Bexley Heath, many years ago,
was always a favourite with Mr. Morris. The frontispiece was not
printed until October, 1897, eighteen months after the text was
finished.

48. _Syr Ysambrace._ Edited by F. S. Ellis after the edition printed by J. O. Halliwell from the MS, in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral, with some corrections. 8vo. Chaucer type. In black and red. Borders 4a and 4, and a woodcut designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. 350 on paper at twelve shillings, 8 on vellum at four guineas. Dated July 14, issued November 11, 1897. Published at the Kelmscott Press. Bound in half holland.

This is the third and last of the reprints from the Camden Society's
volume of Thornton Romances. The text was all set up and partly
printed by June, 1896, at which time it was intended to include _Sir
Eglamour_ in the same volume.

49. _Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century. Being thirty-five reproductions from books that were in the library of the late William Morris._ Edited, with a list of the principal woodcut books in that library, by S. C. Cockerell. Large 4to. Golden type. In red and black. 225 on paper at thirty shillings, 8 on vellum at five guineas. Dated December 15, 1897, issued January 6, 1898. Published at the Kelmscott Press. Bound in half holland.

Of these thirty-five reproductions twenty-nine were all that were done
of a series chosen by Mr. Morris to illustrate a catalogue of his
library, and the other six were prepared by him for an article in the
fourth number of _Bibliographical_ part of which is reprinted as an
introduction to the book. The process blocks (with one exception) were
made by Walker & Boutall, and are of the same size as the original
cuts.

50. _The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs._ By WILLIAM MORRIS. Small folio. Chaucer type, with title and headings to the four books in Troy type. In black and red. Borders 33a and 33, and two illustrations designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and engraved by W. H. Hooper. 160 on paper at six guineas, 6 on vellum at twenty guineas. Dated January 19, issued February 25, 1898. Published at the Kelmscott Press. Bound in limp vellum, with blue silk ties.

The two borders used in this book were almost the last that Mr. Morris
designed. They were intended for an edition of _The Hill of Venus_,
which was to have been written in prose by him and illustrated by Sir
Edward Burne-Jones. The foliage was suggested by the ornament in two
Psalters of the last half of the thirteenth century in the library at
Kelmscott House. The initial A at the beginning of the third book was
designed in March, 1893, for the Froissart, and does not appear
elsewhere.

An edition of _Sigurd the Volsung_, which Mr. Morris justly considered
his masterpiece, was contemplated early in the history of the
Kelmscott Press. An announcement appears in a proof of the first list,
dated April, 1892, but it was excluded from the list as issued in May.
It did not reappear until the list of November 26, 1895, in which, the
Chaucer being near its completion, _Sigurd_ comes under the heading
"in preparation," as a folio in Troy type, "with about twenty-five
illustrations by Sir Edward Burne-Jones." In the list of June 1, 1896,
it is finally announced as "In the press," the number of illustrations
is increased to forty, and other particulars are given. Four borders
had then been designed for it, two of which were used on pages 470 and
471 of the Chaucer. The other two have not been used, though one of
them has been engraved. Two pages only were in type, thirty-two copies
of which were struck off on January 11, 1897, and given to friends,
with the sixteen pages of Froissart mentioned above.

51. _The Sundering Flood._ Written by WILLIAM MORRIS. Overseen for the press by May Morris. 8vo. Chaucer type. In black and red. Border 10, and a map. 300 on paper at two guineas. Dated November 15, 1897, issued February 25, 1898. Published at the Kelmscott Press. Bound in half holland.

This was the last romance by William Morris. He began to write it on
December 21, 1895, and dictated the final words on September 8, 1896.
The map pasted into the cover was drawn by H. Cribb for Walker &
Boutall, who prepared the block. In the edition that Longmans are
about to issue the bands of robbers called in the Kelmscott edition
Red and Black Skinners appear correctly as Red and Black Skimmers. The
name was probably suggested by that of the pirates called "escumours
of the sea" on page 154 of _Godfrey of Boloyne_.

52. _Love is Enough, or the Freeing of Pharamond; A Morality._ Written by William Morris. Large 4to. Troy type, with stage directions in Chaucer type. In black, red, and blue. Borders 6a and 7, and two illustrations designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. 300 on paper at two guineas, 8 on vellum at ten guineas. Dated December 11, 1897, issued March 24, 1898. Published at the Kelmscott Press. Bound in limp vellum.

This was the second book printed in three colours at the Kelmscott
Press. As explained in the colophon, the final picture was not
designed for this particular edition.

53. _A Note by William Morris on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press. Together with a Short Description of the Press_, by S. C. COCKERELL. And an Annotated List of the Books Printed Thereat. Octavo. Golden type, with five pages in the Troy and Chaucer types. In black and red. Borders 4a and 4, and a woodcut designed by Sir E. Burne-Jones. 525 on paper at ten shillings, 12 on vellum at two guineas. Dated March 4, issued March 24, 1898. Published at the Kelmscott Press. Bound in half holland.

Various Lists, Leaflets, and Announcements Printed at the Kelmscott Press:

Eighteen lists of the books printed or in preparation at the Kelmscott Press were issued to booksellers and subscribers. The dates of these are May, July, and December, 1892; March 9, May 20, May 27, August 1, and December 1, 1893; March 31, April 21, July 2, October 1 (a leaflet), and December 1, 1894; July 1 and November 26, 1895; June 1, 1896; February 16 and July 28, 1897. The three lists for 1892, and some copies of that for March 9, 1893, were printed on Whatman paper, the last of the stock bought for the first edition of _The Roots of the Mountains_. Besides these, twenty-nine announcements, relating mainly to individual books, were issued; and eight leaflets, containing extracts from the lists, were printed for distribution by Messrs. Morris & Co. The following items, as having a more permanent interest than most of these announcements, merit a full description:

1. Two forms of invitation to the annual gatherings of the Hammersmith Socialist Society on January 30, 1892, and February 11, 1893. Golden type.

2. A four-page leaflet for the Ancoats Brotherhood, with the frontispiece from the Kelmscott Press edition of _A Dream of John Ball_ on the first page. March, 189 Golden type. 2500 copies.

3. An address to Sir Lowthian Bell, Bart., from his employees, dated 30th June, 1894. Eight pages. Golden type. 250 on paper and 2 on vellum.

4. A leaflet, with fly-leaf, headed _An American Memorial to Keats_, together with a form of invitation to the unveiling of his bust in Hampstead Parish Church on July 16, 1894. Golden type. 750 copies.

5. A slip giving the text of a memorial tablet to Dr. Thomas Sadler, for distribution at the unveiling of it in Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead. November, 1894. Golden type. 450 copies.

6. Scholarship certificates for the technical Education Board of the London County Council, printed in the oblong borders designed for the pictures in Chaucer's Works. One of these borders was not used in the book, and this is its only appearance. The first certificate was printed in November, 1894, and was followed in January, 1896, by eleven certificates; in January, 1897, by six certificates; and in February, 1898, by eleven certificates, all differently worded. Golden type. The numbers varied from 12 to 2500 copies.

7. Programmes of the Kelmscott Press annual _Wayzgoose_ for the years 1892-95. These were printed without supervision from Mr. Morris.

8. Specimen showing the three types used at the Press for insertion in the first edition of Strange's _Alphabets_ March, 1895. 2000 ordinary copies and 60 on large paper.

9. Cards for Associates of the Deaconess Institution for the Diocese of Rochester. One side of this card is printed in Chaucer type; on the other there is a prayer in the Troy type enclosed in a small border which was not used elsewhere. It was designed for the illustrations of a projected edition of _The House of the Wolfings_, April, 1897. 250 copies.

INDEX.

A

_AEneid, The_, 122-124, 144

_AEschylus_, 262

_Agamemnon_, Browning's, 124

Allingham, William, 42, 48, 70

Amiens Cathedral, article on, by Morris, 34, 36-39

_Amis and Amile_, translation by Morris, 229

Archbishop of Canterbury, 177

Aristophanes, 262

Arnold, Matthew, 149

Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, The, 191

Art Worker's Guild, The, 192

_Atalanta in Calydon_, Swinburne's, 229

_Athenaeum, The_, 152

B

Bagehot, Walter, quoted, 36

_Ballads and Narrative Poems_, Rossetti's, 229

Batchelor, Mr., 221

Bax, E. Belfort, 218

_Beata Beatrix_, picture by Rossetti, 55

_Beauty of Life, The_, Morris's lecture on, 65

Belgium, 110

_Beowulf, The Tale of_, 230, 231, 262

Besant, Mrs., 180

Bethel, Alfred, article on, by Morris, 34

Bible, the, 262

_Biblia Innocentium_, Mackail's, 228

Bibliographical Society, The, 192

Birkbeck Hill, Dr., 47, 73

Birmingham Society of Artists, lecture to, 62

Blackburn, 168

Blake, William, 263

"Bloody Sunday," 179

Boccaccio, 263

_Book of Wisdom and Lies, The_, 230

Borrow, George, 263

British Museum, the woodblocks of Kelmscott Press in possession of, 235

Brown, Madox, 113

Browning, Robert, his poems, 37, 39, 40, 57-59

Bryant, William Cullen, his translation of _The Odyssey_ compared with
Morris's translation, 142

Bulgaria, 146

Burne-Jones, Edward, 1;
his first meeting with Morris, 23, 24;
the beginning of his art, 26;
his trip with Morris and Fulford through Northern France, 26, 27;
his decision to leave college and study art, 27;
his admiration for Rossetti, 26, 27 _et seq._

Bury Wood, 15, 16

Byron, 236

C

Cambridge University Library, 221

Canterbury Cathedral, Morris's early visit to, 6

_Canterbury Tales, The_, 115

_Captain Singleton_, 263

Carlyle, Thomas, 24, 150, 263

_Carmagnole, The_, song, 178

Carpets, 89

Catterson-Smith, R., 233

Catullus, 262

_Chants for Socialists_, 218

Chartres, 27

Chaucer, 115, 116, 119, 137, 231-234, 237, 238, 256, 262

Chaucer type, the, 224

_Child Christopher and Goldilands the Fair_, 231

Chingford Hotel, 15

Chiswick Press, the, 33, 205, 206

Clarke, William, 166

Clay Road, 15

Cockerell, S. C., 234

Coleridge's _Poems_, selection from, by Morris, 232, 263

_Colonel Jack_, 263

Colour, Morris's opinions on, 83, 84, 92

_Commonweal, The_, organ of the Socialist League, 175, 183, 185, 195,
201, 203, 209, 210, 218

Crane, Walter, 175, 192, 229

D

_Daily Chronicle, The_, Morris's letters to, concerning Epping Forest,
12-18;
letter by Morris on Socialism, 186-189

_Daily News, The_, quotation from, 146-148

_Daisy Chain, The_, its influence on Morris, 24

Dante, 262

Day, Lewis, 31, 78

_Defence of Guenevere, The_, 54, 59, 228

Democratic Federation, the, 157, 168, 170, 174, 180

De Vinne, Th., on the Kelmscott Press, 224

Dickens, Charles, 263

Dixon, Canon, 34

_Dream of John Ball, A_, 195, 201-203, 228

Dumas, Alexandre, 263

Duerer, 261

Dyes, Morris's preferences in, 91

E

_Earthly Paradise, The_, 59, 115, 116-120, 144, 219, 233

Eastern Question Association, The, 148

_Edda, The_, 262

Ellis, F. S., 221-232, 237

_English Illustrated Magazine, The_, 218

_Epistola de Contemptu Mundi_, 230

Epping Forest, Morris's early familiarity with, 7, 11;
his letters concerning its destruction, 11-18

_Erewhon_, Kingsley's, 163

_Eve of Crecy_, poem by Morris, 55

Exeter College, 193

_Exile, The_, 262

_Eyrbyggja Saga, The_, 144

F

Fair Mead Bottom, 15

Farringdon Road, 101, 177

Faulkner, Charles, 47, 70, 73, 108, 111, 263

_Floure and the Leafe, The_, 233

Forman, Buxton, 205, 206

Freeman, E. A., 149

Froissart, 57, 233

G

_Germ, The_, 33

_Gertha's Lovers_, 36

_Ghirlandata, The_, picture by Rossetti, 55

Giotto, 261

Gisli, 109

Glasgow, 168

_Glittering Plain, The_, 221, 229, 246, 248

Godefrey of Boloyne, Caxton's history of, 228

_Golden Legend_, Caxton's, 221, 223, 227, 228

Golden type, the, 221

_Goldilocks and Goldilocks_, 7, 228

_Good King Wenceslas_, ballad printed at the Kelmscott Press, 4, 5

_Gothic Architecture_, lecture by Morris, 228

Green, J. R., 149

Grettir, 109

Grimm, 263

Gudrun, 109

H

Hammersmith, 97, 107, 108, 176, 181, 257

Hammersmith Socialist Society, The, 185, 189

_Hand and Soul_, Rossetti's, 231

_Hardy Norseman's Home of Yore_, 149

Havre, 27

_Heir of Redclyffe, The_, 24

Herodotus, 262

Herrick's _Poems_, 231

Hesiod, 262

High Beach, 17

_History of Florence_, Arezzo's, 220

_History of Oversea_, translated by Morris, 230

_Historyes of Troye_, Caxton's, 223, 228

_Hollow Land, The_, 36, 40

Homer, 262

Hornbeams, Morris's liking for, 13

_House of the Wolfings, The_, 195, 203-205, 207, 239, 246

_Huckleberry Finn_, 263

Hughes, Arthur, 49

Hugo, Victor, 263

I

Iceland, Morris's first voyage to, 108-110;
second voyage, 110

_Idylls of the King_, Tennyson's, 126, 136

Irish National League, The, 180

J

_Jorrocks, Mr._, 263

_Justice_, organ of the Democratic Federation, 168, 169

K

Kalevala, 262

Keats, John, 24, 27, 34, 229, 238, 263

Kelmscott Church, 258

Kelmscott House, 108, 221

Kelmscott Books, prices of, 238

Kelmscott Manor House, 101-108

Kelmscott Press, The, 177, 219-239, 255

_King's Lesson, A_, 203

Kingsley, Charles, 24, 25

Koburger, Anthony, 223

L

Lang, Andrew, 122-124

_Laudes Beatae Mariae Virginis_, 233

_Laxdaela Saga, The_, 116

Lechlade, 101

Leeds, 168

Leicester, 168

Leonardo, 261

_Lesser Arts, The_, lecture by Morris on, 94

_Life and Death of Jason, The_, 114, 231, 238

_Life of Cardinal Wolsey_, Cavendish's, 228

Linnell, Alfred, 180, 181

_Looking Backward_, Bellamy's, 209

Loughton, 15

_Love is Enough_, 120-122, 219, 234

_Lovers of Gudrun, The_, 116

Lowell, J. R., quoted, 57, 229

Lucretius, 262

M

_Mabinogion_, 263

Mackail, Mr., 24, 33, 62, 71, 97, 110, 111, 120, 122, 150, 191, 193,
229, 263

Maeterlinck, Morris compared to, 57

Madox-Brown, Ford, 70

Magnusson, Mr., 108, 125

_Mahabbarata_, 262

_Making the Best of It_, lecture by Morris on house-decoration, 83

Manchester, 168

Marlborough College, Morris a student in, 6, 9

Marshall, Peter Paul, 70

_Maud_, Tennyson's, 228

Meinhold, William, 229

_Men and Women_, Browning's, reviewed by Morris, 34, 39

Merton Abbey, 175, 190

Milton, 263

_Moll Flanders_, 263

Monk Wood, 15

Morris, May (Mrs. Sparling), daughter of Wm. Morris, 177

Morris, Mrs., wife of William Morris, 51, 53, 59, 66

Morris and Co., 69;
formation of the firm, 69;
prospectus of, 71, 72;
dissolution of, 111-113

_Morte d'Arthur_, painting from, at Oxford Union, 49, 263

Murray, Fairfax, 230

N

_Nature of the Gothic, The_, 160, 228

_Newcomes, The_, quotation from, 30

Newman, Jno., 25

_News from Nowhere_, 98, 102;
quotation from, 103-107, 163-165, 195, 200, 209-212, 213, 238, 258

_Nibelungen Lied_, 262

Njal, 109

O

_Odyssey, The_, 142-144, 210

_Old Story Retold, An_, see _A King's Lesson_

_Omar Khayyam_, 262

Orbeliani, Sulkhan-Saba, 230

_Order of Chivalry, The_, Caxton's translation of, 228

_Ordination of Knighthood_, Morris's translation of, 228

Ovid, 262

Oxford, 191;
Morris's life at, 1-29;
abuses at, 22-23, 31, 41, 168, 193

_Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, The_, 33

Oxford Union, paintings for, 49-52, 54

P

_Pall-Mall Gazette, The_, 189, 261

Paper used at Kelmscott Press, 222

Patmore, Coventry, on Oxford Union paintings, 52, 120

_Penitential Psalms, The_, 230

Pennell, Joseph, 181

_Percyvelle of Gales, Syr_, 231

_Piers Plowman_, 262

_Pilgrims of Hope, The_, poem by Morris, 195-201

_Pilgrim's Progress_, 263

Plato, 262

_Pliny_, Jensen's 220

_Poems_, Keats's, 229

_Poems_, Shakespeare's, 228

_Poems by the Way_, 7, 227

Pollen, J. Hungerford, 49

_Praise of My Lady_, poem by Morris, 52, 53

_Prinsep_, Valentine, 49

_Prioress's Tale, The_, Burne-Jones's paintings from, 47

Professorship of Poetry at Oxford, Morris declines, 149

_Proserpine_, picture by Rossetti, 54

Pugin, 31

Q

Queen Square, Morris's residence in, 97, 101

_Quest, The_, article by Morris in, 102

R

Raphael, 261

_Rapunzel_, poem by Morris, 57

Red Lion Square, 46, 71, 81

Red House, The, 61-68, 96, 97, 101, 114

Rembrandt, 261

Restoration of ancient buildings, 32

_Reynard the Fox_, 263

_Robinson Crusoe_, 263

Robinson, Ralph, 213, 228

Rome, 61

_Roots of the Mountains, The_, 195, 207-209, 246

_Rosamond_, Swinburne's, 54

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1, 9, 27;
Morris's first meeting with, 40-42;
his service to Morris, 43-46;
at Oxford, 49-51;
and Jane Burden, 51;
_The Defence of Guenevere_ dedicated to, 54, 55;
his part in the formation of the firm "Morris, Marshall, Faulkner,
& Co.," 69-74;
at Kelmscott, 101-103, 108;
his attitude respecting the dissolution of the firm, 111-113;
his _Hand and Soul_, 231

Rossetti, William, 70, 112, 113

_Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The_, 144

Rubens, Jacobus, 220

_Ruin, The_, 262

Ruskin, 19, 23, 24, 27, 151, 160, 263

S

St. Mark's Cathedral, 154

Savernake Forest, Morris's early familiarity with, 7

Savonarola, 230

Schoeffer, Peter, 223

Scott, Gilbert, 31, 152

Scott, Walter, 5, 19, 263

_Shahnameh_, 262

Shakespeare, 24, 137

Shaw, Bernard, on _Nupkins Awakened_, 31, 179

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 24, 101, 230, 263

_Shepherde's Calender, The_, 233

_Sidonia the Sorceress_, Lady Wilde's, 228

_Signs of Change_, lectures by Morris, 218

Sigurd, 109

_Sir Galahad_, 54

_Sire Degravaunt_, 66, 234

Socialism, 162-218

_Socialism from the Root Up_, book by Morris and Bax, 218

Socialist League, The, 175-177, 180, 182, 185

Society for Protection of Ancient Buildings, The, 153, 157

Society of Antiquaries, 192

Sophocles, 262

_Spectator, The_, letter from Morris in, 252

Stanhope, Spencer, 49

Stanmore Tapestry, The, 99

Stead, William, 263

Stevenson, Robert Louis, his letter to his father, 9, 124

_Stones of Venice, The_, 27, 160, 228

_Story of the Glittering Plain, The_, 109, 218, 227, 243

_Story of Sigur the Volsung, The_, 125-142, 144, 146, 227, 234, 238

Street, George Edmund, 31, 42, 63

_Sundering Flood, The_, 234, 239, 240, 242, 257

Surts-hellir, cave at, 109

_Svend and his Brethren_, 36, 37

Swainslow, 256

Swinburne, A. C., 229

_Syr Ysambrace_, 234

T

_Tables Turned, The; or, Nupkins Awakened_, farce by Morris, 177

_Tale of the Emperor Constans, The_, translated by Morris, 230

_Tale of King Florus and Fair Tehane_, translated by Morris, 227

Taylor, George Warrington, Morris's business manager, 97

Tennyson, Alfred, 24, 177

_Teutonic Mythology_, 263

Tewkesbury, restoration of the Abbey Church at, 152

Thackeray, William M., 24

Theocritus, 262

_Thousand and One Nights, The_, 263

_Three Northern Love-Stories and Other Tales_, translations by
Morris, 125

Trafalgar Square, 161, 179-181

Troy Type, The, 223, 225

Tyndall, Prof., 177

U

_Uncle Remus_, 263

Upton, Morris's residence at, 62, 96

_Useful Work versus Useless Toil_, lecture by Morris, 165

_Utopia_, More's, 213-217, 228, 263

V

Van Eyck, his motto chosen by Morris, 68

Velasquez, 261

Verona, 61

Viollet-le-Duc, 31

Virgil, 122-124, 262

_Volsunga Saga, The_, 125

_Voyage Round the World_, 263

W

Wagner, Richard, 135, 141

_Wake, London Lads!_ ballad by Morris, 148

Walker, Emery, 22, 205, 209

Wall-papers, 81-83

Wallace, Alfred, his suggestion that Epping Forest be planted with
North American trees, 11

Walthamstow, 3, 10

Wardrop, Oliver, 230

Warren, Sir Charles, 179

_Water of the Wondrous Isles, The_, 233, 240, 245, 248-251

Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 69

Waverley Novels, the, Morris's early fondness for, 3

Weaving, 85, 86

Webb, Philip, architect of the Red House, 61, 70, 75, 82, 111

_Well at the World's End, The_, 232, 245, 248

Westminster Abbey, 154, 181

White Horse, The, 30

Whitney, Miss Anne, 229

Whittingham, Charles, 33

Wilde, Lady, 228

_Women and Roses_, Browning's, 39

_Wood beyond the World, The_, Morris's, 7, 230, 242, 252

Woodford Hall, home of the Morrises, 3

Working Men's College, Burne-Jones's visit to, 40

Wyatt, A. J., 230

Y

Yonge, Miss, 24

Z

Zainer, Gunther, 223

Messrs. MORRIS & COMPANY have appointed as their general agent Mr. A. E. Bulkley of 42 East 14th St., New York City, and he will be pleased to give all information respecting the various fabrics, etc., designed by the late Mr. Morris and sold by MORRIS & COMPANY. These may also be obtained of Mr. A. H. Davenport, 96-98 Washington St., Boston.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] When the _Utopia_ appeared with this introduction an Eton master who had ordered forty copies in advance, intending the books to be used as prizes for the boys in his school, withdrew his order, Young England not being allowed at that time to keep such Socialistic company.

[2] The trustees are now publishing the remainder of Morris's own works in the type of the Kelmscott Press, though without the ornaments, that a uniform edition may be had.

[3] The reader here is expected to note the correspondence between the names of the ladies and the titles of their lovers, and the same correspondence is carried out in the colour of the ladies' garments and the armour of the knights.

[4] Lewis F. Day.

[5] This bibliography is reprinted, with certain slight additions, from the bibliography prepared by S. C. Cockerell for the monograph entitled, "A Note by William Morris on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press."

[6] At the Ellis Sale (1901) a presentation vellum copy brought L114.

[7] The first sheet was printed on the 2d of March, the last on the 4th of April.

[8] At the Ellis Sale a presentation vellum copy brought L60.

[9] In this line as it originally stood, "dawn" was the rhyme provided for "corn." In the new line the rhyme for corn is "daylight new-born;" but Mr. Buxton Forman writes that Morris was wont to declare that "No South Englishman makes any difference in ordinary talk between dawn and morn for instance."

[10] "When Adam dalf and Eve span, who was thanne the gentleman."

[11] This book realised at the Ellis Sale L8.5s. for the paper copy, and L61 in vellum. Since its publication it has sold as low as L2.15s. for paper copies, and L29 for vellum.

[12] Mr. Ellis's presentation copy sold for L91.

[13] This "foreword" is a socialist document occupying pp. III to VIII.

[14] At the Ellis Sale a copy on vellum (not presentation) brought L9.10s.

[15] This story Morris said he translated in a day and a quarter.

[16] At the Ellis Sale a paper copy brought L25.10s., while in 1900 one brought L27.5s.

[17] Mr. Vallance says, "This is noteworthy as being the sole instance of a heraldic device among the _published_ designs of William Morris."

[18] In the list of Dec. 1st, 1894, the 2d and 3d volumes are announced to follow "early in the New Year." The third volume did not, however, appear until the autumn of 1895.

[19] Dull red silk ties. Gold lettering on back.

[20] Also that 7 of the 8 vellum copies have been subscribed for.

[21] In the prospectus the price for full white tooled pigskin binding executed under Mr. Cobden-Sanderson's direction is given at L13.

[22] The quotations heading each stanza are in red, the initial letters pale blue, the remaining text in black.