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Kelmscott Press

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Founded in 1891 by William Morris, Kelmscott Press represents the culmination of Morris’s career in the graphic arts. In a short period between 1891 and 1898, the Kelmscott Press produced 66 books which were printed by Morris and illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones. The famed Kelmscott Chaucer is rightly revered as one of the ultimate private press books, combining artistic skill with typographic beauty to produce a folio of outstanding and lasting supreme quality. The last of the 13 copies printed on vellum to appear at auction made $550,000 in 1997.

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Previously Sold

Kelmscott Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Works......now newly imprinted, edi...

Hammer: £32,000

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) The Earthly Paradise, 8 vol., one of 225 ...

Hammer: £16,000

Kelmscott Press.- Evetts (Deborah, binder).- Morris (William, ...

Hammer: £13,000

Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), accordi...

Hammer: £8,500

Kelmscott Press.- Design for the frontispiece to 'A Dream of John Ball&#...

Hammer: £8,500

Doves Press.- English Bible (The), 5 vol., [one of 500 copies on paper], Lau...

Hammer: £8,000

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the F...

Hammer: £6,500

Kelmscott Press.- Keats (John) The Poems, edited by F.S.Ellis, one of 300 co...

Hammer: £5,500

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) The Well at the World's End, [one of ...

Hammer: £5,500

William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones.- Catterson-Smith (Robert, artist, soc...

Hammer: £5,000

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) News from Nowhere: or an Epoch of Rest, b...

Hammer: £5,000

Morris (William) The Story of the Glittering Plain, [one of 250 copies on pa...

Hammer: £5,000

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) The Life and Death of Jason, one of 200 c...

Hammer: £4,200

Kelmscott Press.- Chaucer (Geoffrey) [The Canterbury Tales], cancelled proof...

Hammer: £4,200

Kelmscott Press.- Voragine (Jacobus de) The Golden Legend, translated by William Caxton, o...

Hammer: £4,200

Kelmscott Press.- Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Poems chosen out of the Works..., edited ...

Hammer: £4,000

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) The Story of the Glittering Plain, one of 250 copies on...

Hammer: £4,000

Kelmscott Press.- Keats (John) The Poems, edited by F.S.Ellis, one of 300 co...

Hammer: £3,800

Kelmscott Press.- Keats (John) The Poems, edited by F.S.Ellis, [one of 300 c...

Hammer: £3,800

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) A Note On His Aims in Founding the Kelmsc...

Hammer: £3,800

Kelmscott Press.- More (Sir Thomas) Utopia, edited by F.S.Elli...

Hammer: £3,500

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) Love is Enough, or The Freeing of Pharamo...

Hammer: £3,500

Kelmscott Press.- Mackail (J.W.) Biblia Innocentium: being the Story of God&...

Hammer: £3,200

Kelmscott Press.- Keats (John) The Poems, edited by F.S.Ellis, one of 300 co...

Hammer: £2,800

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) Poems by the Way,one of 300 copies on Flo...

Hammer: £2,800

Kelmscott Press.- [Orbeliani (Sulkhan-Saba)] The Book of Wisdom and Lies, tr...

Hammer: £2,400

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) A Note by William Morris on his Aims in F...

Hammer: £2,400

Kelmscott Press.- Shakespeare (William) The Poems, edited by F.S.Ellis, one ...

Hammer: £2,200

Kelmscott Press.- [Orbeliani (Sulkhan-Saba)] The Book of Wisdom and Lies, tr...

Hammer: £2,200

Kelmscott Press.- Lull (Ramòn). The Order of Chivalry, translated by Wi...

Hammer: £2,200

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) Poems by the Way, one of 300 copies on Fl...

Hammer: £2,200

Kelmscott Press.- Syr Isambrace, edited by F.S.Ellis, one of 350 copies on F...

Hammer: £2,000

Kelmscott Press.- [Gulielmus, Archbishop of Tyre.] The History...

Hammer: £2,000

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) The Wood beyond the World, [one of 350 copies on Flower...

Hammer: £2,000

Kelmscott Press.- [Guilelmus, Archbishop of Tyre.] The History...

Hammer: £1,900

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) The Dream of John Ball and A King's L...

Hammer: £1,900

Kelmscott Press.- Ancoats Brotherhood. When Adam Delved and Eve Span..., 4pp...

Hammer: £1,900

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) Poems by the Way, one of 300 copies on Fl...

Hammer: £1,900

Kelmscott Press.- [Gulielmus, Archbishop of Tyre.] The History of Godefrey o...

Hammer: £1,900

Kelmscott Press.- Ancoats Brotherhood. When Adam Delved and Eve Sp...

Hammer: £1,800

Kelmscott Press.- Menus for the Third and Fourth Annual Printers' Dinner...

Hammer: £1,800

Kelmscott Press.- Rossetti (Dante Gabriel) Sonnets and Lyrical Poems, [one o...

Hammer: £1,800

Kelmscott Press.- Blunt (Wilfrid Scawen) The Love-Lyrics & Songs of Pro...

Hammer: £1,800

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) The Well at the World's End, one of 3...

Hammer: £1,800

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) The Sundering Flood, one of 300 copies on...

Hammer: £1,800

Ashendene Press.- Thucydides. [History of the Peloponnesian War], [one of 260 copies], pri...

Hammer: £1,800

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) Poems by the Way, one of 300 copies on Fl...

Hammer: £1,700

Kelmscott Press.- Syr Ysambrace, edited by F.S.Ellis, one of 350 copies on F...

Hammer: £1,700

Kelmscott Press.- Meinhold (William) Sidonia the Sorceress, translated by Fr...

Hammer: £1,700

Kelmscott Press.- Meinhold (William) Sidonia the Sorceress, translated by Fr...

Hammer: £1,700

Kelmscott Press.- Meinhold (William) Sidonia the Sorceress, translated by Fr...

Hammer: £1,700

Kelmscott Press.- Syr Perecyvelle of Gales, one of 350 copies on Flower pape...

Hammer: £1,600

Kelmscott Press.- Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Poems chosen out of the Works......

Hammer: £1,500

Kelmscott Press.- Syr Ysambrace, edited by F.S.Ellis, one of 350 copies on Flower paper, p...

Hammer: £1,500

Kelmscott Press.- Sire Degrevaunt, edited by F.S.Ellis, one of 350 copies on...

Hammer: £1,400

Kelmscott Press.- Ephemera.- Ancoats Brotherhood. When Adam Delved and Eve S...

Hammer: £1,400

Kelmscott Press.- Syr Perecyvelle of Gales, edited by F.S.Ellis, one of 350 ...

Hammer: £1,400

Kelmscott Press.- Biblia Innocentium: being the Story of God's Chosen Pe...

Hammer: £1,400

Kelmscott Press.- Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) Maud, a Monodrama, o...

Hammer: £1,300

Carter (John) The Origins of Publishers' Cloth Binding, offprint from part 8 of 'The Colop...

Hammer: £1,300

Kelmscott Press.- Ancoats Brotherhood. When Adam Delved and Eve Span..., 4pp., one of 250 ...

Hammer: £1,300

Kelmscott Press.- Herrick (Robert) Poems chosen out of the Works, edited by ...

Hammer: £1,200

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) A Note by William Morris on his Aim...

Hammer: £1,200

Kelmscott Press.- Clanvowe (Sir Thomas) The Floure and the Lea...

Hammer: £1,100

Kelmscott Press.- Cavendish (George) The Life of Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal Arc...

Hammer: £1,100

Kelmscott Press.- Sire Degrevaunt, edited by F.S. Ellis, one of 350 copies on Flower ...

Hammer: £1,100

Kelmscott Press.- Blunt (Wilfrid Scawen) The Love-Lyrics & Songs of Prot...

Hammer: £1,000

Eragny Press.- Verhaeren (Emile) Les Petits Vieux, one of 230 copies on Japa...

Hammer: £1,000

Kelmscott Press.- Meinhold (William) Sidonia the Sorceress, translated by Fr...

Hammer: £1,000

Kelmscott Press.- Rossetti (Dante Gabriel) Hand and Soul, one of 525 copies on Flower pape...

Hammer: £1,000

Kelmscott Press.- Ruskin (John) The Nature of Gothic: a Chapter of The Stone...

Hammer: £950

Kelmscott Press.- Herrick (Robert) Poems chosen out of the Works, edited by ...

Hammer: £950

Kelmscott Press.- Herrick (Robert) Poems chosen out of the Works, edited by ...

Hammer: £950

Kelmscott Press.- Burne-Jones (Edward) The Beginning of the World: Twenty-Fi...

Hammer: £950

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair,...

Hammer: £950

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) Corrected proof sheet for Poems by the Wa...

Hammer: £900

Kelmscott Press.- Meinhold (William) Sidonia the Sorceress, translated by Fr...

Hammer: £900

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) The Sundering Flood, one of 300 copies on...

Hammer: £900

Kelmscott Press.- Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) Maud, a Monodrama, one of 500 copies on Flower p...

Hammer: £900

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) Poems by the Way, one of 300 copies on Fl...

Hammer: £850

Ashendene Press.- Longus. Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe, transla...

Hammer: £850

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair,...

Hammer: £800

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William, translator) The Tale of Kin...

Hammer: £750

Kelmscott Press.- Ruskin (John) The Nature of Gothic: a Chapter of The Stone...

Hammer: £750

Kelmscott Press.- Ruskin (John) The Nature of Gothic: a Chapter of The Stone...

Hammer: £750

Kelmscott Press.- Ruskin (John) The Nature of Gothic: a Chapter of the Stone...

Hammer: £750

Ruskin (John) The Nature of Gothic: a Chapter of the Stones of Venice, one o...

Hammer: £750

Morris (William).- Vallance (Aymer) The Art of William Morris: a Record, num...

Hammer: £750

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William, translator) Of the Friendsh...

Hammer: £700

Kelmscott Press.- Cockerell (Sydney C.) Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteent...

Hammer: £700

Ashendene Press.- Longus. Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe, transla...

Hammer: £700

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) Gothic Architecture: A Lecture for the Ar...

Hammer: £650

Kelmscott Press.- Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) Maud, a Monodrama, o...

Hammer: £650

Kelmscott Press.- Ruskin (John) The Nature of Gothic: a Chapter of The Stone...

Hammer: £650

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair,...

Hammer: £650

Morris (William).- Wagner (Richard) Die Walküre, first English edition,...

Hammer: £600

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William, translator) The Tale of Kin...

Hammer: £600

Kelmscott Press.- Sparling (H.Halliday) The Kelmscott Press and William Morr...

Hammer: £500

Taylor (Michael) & Brocard Sewell. Saint Dominic's Press: a Bibliogr...

Hammer: £420

Johnson (Samuel) Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. A Tale, [one of 310 copies o...

Hammer: £350

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) The Art and Craft of Printing: A Note...o...

Hammer: £280

McGrandle (Leith, editor) Europe: The Quest for Unity, number 458 of 475 copies ...

Hammer: £240

Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) Gothic Architecture: A Lecture for the Ar...

Hammer: £220

Kelmscott Press.- Specimen sheet for 'The Recuyell of the Historyes of T...

Hammer: £200

Burne-Jones (Georgiana) The Beginning of the World. Twenty-Five Pictures by ...

Hammer: £200

Printing ephemera.- Album of private press ephemera and earlier printing sam...

Hammer: £170

Kelmscott Press.- Ellis (F.S.) [Sale Catalogue] Catalogue of a small but val...

Hammer: £160

Morris (William) A Tale of the House of the Wolfings..., [one of 315 copies]...

Hammer: £160

Nouhuys (W.G. van) Egidius en de Vreemdeling, number 19 of 200 copies, portrait by J. Th.T...

Hammer: £160

Daniel (C.H.O.) The Daniel Press. Memorials...with a Bibliography...1845-1919, one of 500 ...

Hammer: £150

Jeremy Deller (b.1966) Printed on the Kelmscott Press Letterpress printed in...

Hammer: £140

Jeremy Deller (b.1966) Printed on the Kelmscott Press Letterpress printed in...

Hammer: £140

Morrow (Bradford) & Bernard Lafourcade. A Bibliography of the Writings o...

Hammer: £110

Morris (William).- Mackail (J.W.) William Morris: An Address delivered the X...

Hammer: £85

Morris (William) & C. Cockerell. The Kelmscott Press, "Large Paper ...

Hammer: £70

Essex House Press.- Cellini (Benvenuto) The Treatises...on Goldsmithing and ...

Hammer: £65

Bibliography.- Teerink (Herman) A Bibliography of the Writings of Jonathan Swift, Philadel...

Hammer: £60

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