Established by William Morris in 1891. Morris designed three types, Golden (1890), Troy (1891) and Chaucer (1892) and published all his books using special handmade paper and inks. In total the Press published some 17,565 volumes. When published they would have cost £143.35 for the lot. At current values they are worth between £45,625 and £72,050 (1995)

* = trans or reprints of William Caxton
1891-2
William MORRIS : The Story of the Glittering Plain (1891 2 guineas) - unillustrated. Ltd Ed 200
William MORRIS : Poems By the Way (1891 2 gns) - Ltd Ed 300
Wilfred Scawen BLUNT : The Love-Lyrics and Songs of Proteus (1892 2 gns) - Ltd Ed 300
John RUSKIN : The Nature of Gothic (1892 30/-) - Ltd Ed 500
William MORRIS : The Defence of Guenever & other Poems (1892 2gns) - Ltd Ed 300
William MORRIS : A Dream of John Ball (1892 30/-) - Ltd Ed 300
*Jacobus DE VORAIGNE : The Golden Legend (1892 5gns) - 3 vols. Ltd Ed 500
*Raoul LEFEVRE : The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye (1892 9 gns) - 2 vols. Ltd Ed 300
J W MACJAIL : Biblia Innocentum (1892 1 gn) - Ltd Ed 200
*ANON : The History of Reynard the Foxe (1892 3gns) - Ltd Ed 300

1893
William SHAKESPEARE : The Poems (1893 25/-) - Ltd Ed 500
William MORRIS : News from Nowhere (1892 2 gns) - Ltd Ed 300. illus by C M Gere
ANON : The Order of Chivalry (1893 30/-) - Ltd Ed 225. One illus Edward Burne-Jones
George CAVENDISH : The Life of Thomas Wolsey (1893 2gns) - Ltd Ed 260
*ANON : The History of Godefrey of Boloyne (1893 6 gns) - Ltd Ed 300
Thomas MORE : Utopia (1893 30/-) - Ltd Ed 300
Alfred TENNYSON : Maud (1893 2 gns) - Ltd Ed 500
William MORRIS : Gothic Architecture (1893 2/6) - Ltd Ed 1500
William MEINHOLD : Sidonia the Sorceress (1893 4 gns) - Ltd Ed 300
Dante Gabriel ROSSETTI : Ballads and Narrative Poems - Sonnets & Lyrical Poems
(1894-4 4 gns) - 2 vols. Ltd Ed 310
TRAD : The Tale of King Florus and Fair Jehane (1893 7/6) - Ltd Ed 350

1894
William MORRIS : The Story of the Glittering Plain (1894 5 gns) - Ltd Ed 250. Walter Crane
TRAD : Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile (1894 7/6) - Ltd Ed 500
John KEATS : The Poems (1894 30/-) - Ltd Ed 300
Algernon Charles SWINBURNE : Atalanta in Calydon : A tragedy (1894 2 gns) - Ltd Ed 250
TRAD : The Tale of the Emperor Coustans (1894 7/-) - Ltd Ed 525
William MORRIS : The Wood Beyond the World (1894 2gns) - Ltd Ed 350. Frontis by Burne-Jones
TRAD : The Book of Wisdom and Lies (1894 2 gns) - Ltd Ed 250
Percy Bysshe SHELLEY : The Poetical Works (1894-5 £3.15s) - Ltd Ed 250
TRAD : Psalmi Penitentiales (1894 7/-) - Ltd Ed 300
Hieronymo DA FERRARA : Epistola De Contemptu Mundi
(1894 printed for C Fairfax Murray) - Ltd Ed 150

1895
ANON : The Tale of Beowulf (1895 2 gns) - Ltd Ed 300
TRAD : Syr Perceyvelle of Gales (1895 15/-) - Ltd Ed 350
William MORRIS : The Life and Death of Jason (1895 5 gns) - Ltd Ed 200. 2 illus by Burne-Jones
William MORRIS : Child Christopher and Godilind the Fair (1895 15/-) - Ltd Ed 600. 2 vols
Dante Gabriel ROSSETTI : Hand and Soul (1895 10/-) - Ltd Ed 525

1896
Robert HERRICK : Poems (1896 1 gn) - Ltd Ed 250
Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE : Poems (1896 1 gn) - Ltd Ed 300
William MORRIS : The Well at the World's End (1896 5 gns) - Ltd Ed 350. 4 illus by Burne-Jones
Geoffrey CHAUCER : The Works (1896 £20) - Ltd Ed 425. 87 illus by Burne-Jones
Offered in 1971 for £1975
Geoffrey CHAUCER : The Works (1975 Basilisk Press) - facsimile Ltd Ed 515. 2 vols
William MORRIS : The Earthly Paradise (1896-7 £12) - Ltd Ed 225. 8 vols
TRAD : Laudes Beatae Mariae Virginis (1896 10/-) - Ltd Ed 250
TRAD : The Flour and the Leaf (1896 10/-) - Ltd Ed 300
Edmund SPENSER : The Shepheardes Calender (1896 1 gn) - Ltd Ed 225. 12 illus by A J Gaskin

1897-1898
TRAD : The Water of the Wondrous Isles (1897 3 gns) - Ltd Ed 250
FROISSART : The trial Pages of the projected Edition of Froissart's Chronicles
(1897 1 gn) - Ltd Ed 160 on vellum
TRAD : Sire Degrevaunt (1896[1897] 15/-) - Ltd Ed 350. 1 illus by Burne-Jones
TRAD : Syr Ysambrace (1897 12/-) - Ltd Ed 350. 1 illus Burne-Jones
(Ed) S C COCKERELL : Some German Woodcuts of the 15thC (1897[1898] 30/-) - Ltd Ed 225
William MORRIS : The Story of Sigurd the Volsung (1898 6 gns) - Ltd Ed 160. 2 illus Burne-Jones
William MORRIS : The Sundering Flood (1897 2 gns) - Ltd Ed 300
William MORRIS : Love is Enough (1897[1898] 2 gns) - Ltd Ed 400. 2 illus Burne-Jones
William MORRIS : A Note by WM on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press .. and an Annotated
List of the Books (by S C Cockerell) (1898 10/-) - Ltd Ed 525. 1 illus Burne-Jones

READING
H Halliday Sparling : The Kelmscott Press and William Morris Master-Craftsman
(1924 Macmillan) (1975 Dawson)
Paul Needham, Joseph Dreyfuss, John Dreyfuss : William Morris and the Art of the Book
(1976 Pierpoint Morgan Library, US)
William S Peterson : A Bibliography of the Kelmscott Press (1984 OUP)
William Peterson : The Kelmscott Press - A History of William Morris's Typographical
Adventure (1991 Clarendon Press)
Fiona MacCarthy : William Morris : A Life for Our Time (1994 Faber £25)