Male : Poet and Craftsman. 1859 married Jane Burden. Established the Kelmscott (named after his house, Kelmscott Manor, near Lechlade) Press in 1890. Helped form the Socialist League in 1884

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Walthamstow, Nr Epping

Date of Birth : 1834 Date of Death : 1896 Age : 62

Other Work : Interior decorator

Education : Marlborough & Exeter College, Oxford

1858-1870
The Defence of Guinevere & other Poems (1858 Bell & Daldy)
The Earthly Paradise : A Poem (1868-70 Ellis) - 3 vols (1868-71 Roberts Bros, Boston)
The Life and Death of Jason (1867 Bell & Daldy)
The Story of Grettir the Strong (1869 Ellis)
The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs (1870 Ellis)

1871-1880
Love is Enough, or The Freeing of Pharamond (1873 Ellis & White, London) - 1500
Three Northern Love Stories & Other Tales (1875 Ellis & White) - 500. with Erik Magnusson
The Aeneids of Virgil (1875 E & W)
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung (1876 E & W)

1881-1886
Hopes and Fears for Art (1882 E & W) (1882 Roberts, Boston)
Chants for Socialists (1884 Socialist League)
Pilgrims of Hope (1886 PP by H Buxton Forman)
The Earthly Paradise (1886 Reeves & Turner) - 5 vols. Frontis Burne Jones

1887-1888
The Odyssey of Homer (1887 Reeves & Turner) - 2 vols
The Aims of Art (1887 The Commonweal)
The Tables Turned Or Nupkins Awakened : A Socialist Interlude (1887 The Commonweal)
A Dream of John Ball and A King's Lesson (1888 Reeves & Turner)
- 50 Large Paper. Frontis Burne Jones
True and False Society : Socialist Platform No 6 (1888 Socialist League Office, London)
A Tale of the House of the Wolfkings (1888 R & T) (1890 Roberts, Boston)
Signs of Change : Seven Lectures delivered on Various Occasions (1888 Reeves & Turner)

1889-1890
A Tale of the House of the Wolfings (1889 Reeves & Turner)
The Root of the Mountains (1890 R & T)
News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest (1890 Robert Bros, Boston)

1891-1895
News from Nowhere or An Epoch of Rest (1891 R & T) - 250
Address on the Collection of Paintings of the English Pre-Raphaelite School,
delivered Oct 2nd, 1891 (1891 E C Osborne, Birmingham)
Poems By the Way (1891 Reeves & Turner) - 100 Large Paper
The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm Tongue (1891 Chiswick Press) - 75 copies
The Story of the Glittering Plain (1891 R & T)
The Saga Library (1891-1895 B Quaritch) - 5 vols
Socialism : Its Growth and Outcome (1893 Swan Sonnenschein)
- with E Belfort Bax. 275 Large Paper
Gothic Architecture : A Lecture for the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society
(1893 Kelmscott Press) - 1500
Offered at £400 in 1998
(Trans) The Tale of the Emperor Coustans and of Over Sea (1894 Kelmscott Press) - 525
The Wood Beyond the World (1895 Lawrence & Bullen) - 1st Trade Ed

1896-1898
The Well at the World's End : A Tale (1896 Longmans, Green) - 1st trade ed. 2 vols
The Defence of Guenevere : A Book of Lyrics (1896 Mosher Press, Portland, Maine) - 925
The Water of the Wondrous Isles (1897 Longmans, Green) - 1st trade ed
An Address delivered at the Distribution of Prizes to Students of the Birmingham Municipal
School of Art on Feb 21, 1894 (1898 Chiswick Press)
The Sundering Flood (1898 Longmans, Green) - 1st Trade Ed
A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press (1898 Kelmscott Press) - 537
Art and the Beauty of the Earth : A Lecture .. Oct 13, 1881 (1898 Chiswick Press)
A Dream of John Ball (1898 Roycrofters, East Aurora) - 650

1899-1900
Some Hints on Pattern Designing : A Lecture .. Dec 10, 1881 (1899 Chiswick Press)
The Story of Amis & Amile Done Out of the Ancient French into English (1899 Mosher, Maine) - 425
Pre-Raphaelite Ballads (1900 Wessels, NY) - 500
Architecture and History, and Westminster Abbey (1900 Longmans)

1901-1910
The Roots of the Mountains (1901 Longmans, Green) - 300
Art and Its Producers (1901 Chiswick Press)
(Trans) The Story of Grettir the Strong (1901 Longmans Green) - with Erik Magnusson
Collected Works (1901-2 Longmans Green) - 8 vols. 300
A Tale of the House of the Volsungs and all the Kindreds of the Mark (1901 Longmans, Green)
Architecture, Industry and Wealth : Collected Papers (1902 Longmans, Green)
Five Arthurian Poems (1902 Elston Press, NY) - 178
The Doom of King Acrisius (1902 Russell, NY) - Burne Jones
The Hollow Land & Other Contributions to the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine
(1903 Chiswick Press) - 300
The Defence of Guenevere & Other Poems (1904 JL, Bodley Head) - Jessie M King
The Collected Works (1910 Longmans Green) - 1050. 24 vols

After 1911
Tales from the Earthly Paradise (1913 A & C Black)
The Early Poems (1914 Blackie) - Florence Harrison
The Sundering Flood (1914 Longmans Green)
The Life & Death of Jason (1915 Headley Bros, London) - Maxwell Armfield
The Defence of Guenevere and King Arthur's Tomb (1930 Fanfrolico Press)
- 450. Decorations by D G Rossetti
Some Thoughts on the Ornamented MSS of the Middle Ages (1934 Press of the Woolly Whale, NY)
Stories in Prose & Verse : Shorter Poems, Lectures & Essays
(1946 Nonesuch Press) - Centenary Ed, edited by G D H Cole
The Letters to His Family & Friends (1950 Longmans Green)
The Revival of Art in Craft (1968 Wynkyn de Worde Soc, Np) - 650
The Unpublished Lectures (1969 Wayne State UP, Detroit) - Edited by Eugene D Lemire

WORKS PRINTED AT THE KELMSCOTT PRESS
The Story of the Glittering Plain (1891) - 200
Poems By the Way (1891 Reeves & Turner, London) - 100 Large Paper
The Defence of Guinevere (1892)
A Dream of John Ball and A King's Lesson (1892)
News from Nowhere Or An Epoch of Rest (1893)
The Order of Chivalry and L'Ordene de Chevalerie (1893)
Gothic Architecture : A Lecture for the Arts & Crafts Exhibiton Society (1893)
The Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane (1893)
On the Friendship of Amis and Amilie (1894) - 500
The Tale of the Emperor Coustans and of Over Sea (1894) - 525
The Story of the Glittering Plain (1894) - 250. Engravings by Walter Crane
The Wood Beyond the World (1894) - 350 (1895 Lawrence & Bullen - 1st Trade Ed)
The Tale of Beowulf (1895)
The Life and Death of Jason (1895)
Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair (1895)
Old French Romances (1896)
The Floure and the Leafe & the Boke of Cupid (1896)
The Well at World's End (1896)
The Earthly Paradise (1896-7) - 6 vols
The Water of the Wondrous Isles (1897)
The Story of the Saundering Flood (1897) - 300
Offered in 1991 for £570 & £450
Love is Enough (1898)
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung & the Fall of the Niblungs (1898) - 160 on Hand-made paper
A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press (1898) - 537

READING
H Buxton Forman : The Books of William Morris (1897) (1976 Holland Press, London)
Aymer Vallance : William Morris - His Art, His Writings & His Public Life (1897)
J W Mackail : The Life of William Morris (1899 Longmans) - 2 vols
Elisabeth Luther Cary : William Morris - Poet, Craftsman, Socialist (1902 Putnam, NY)
Arthur Compton-Rickett : William Morris : A Study in Personality (1913 Jenkins, London)
Gerald H Crow : William Morris - Designer (1934 Studio, London)
Edward & Stephani Gpodwin : Warrior Bard - The Life of William Morris (1947 Harrap)
R Watkinson : William Morris as Designer (1967 Studio Vista)
Paul Thompson : The Work of William Morris (1967 Heinemann)
P Henderson : William Morris - His Life, Work & Friends (1967 Thames & Hudson)
Paul Needham : William Morris and the Art of the Book (1976 NY) - et al
E P Thompson : William Morris - Romantic to Revolutionary (1977 Pantheon, NY)
Roderick Marshall : William Morris and His Earthly Paradises (1979 Compton Press)
(1981 George Braziller $22.50)
Carole Silver : The Romance of William Morris (1983 Ohio UP £17.80)
Fiona MacCarthy : William Morris - A Life for Our Time (1994 Faber £25)
The Collected Letters of William Morris : Vol III 1889-1892
(1996 Princeton UP £35) - edited by Norman Kelvin
The Collected Letters of William Morris : Vol IV 1893-1896
(1996 Princeton UP £35) - edited by Norman Kelvin

[The William Morris Gallery, The Water House, Lloyd Park, Forest Road, London E17
was one of the earliest public institutions to commemorate
the life and work of a single artist, It was open to the public from 1950]