The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum

Fragments translated, written out and decorated by William Morris from Sir Lancelot du Lac, the Saga of Howard the Halt, the Heimskringa Etc., 1890s

Author:William Morris

Text and illustrations by William Morris. Bound by Douglas Cockerell.  CAGM1991.1016.996.Z2

Some Chapters of the Story of the Men of Weaponfirth, 1890s

Author: William Morris

Text and illustrations by William Morris from this unfinished story. Bound by Douglas Cockerell, 1902. CAGM1991.1016.996.Y7

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, 1896

Press: Kelmscott Press, Author: Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by F S Ellis

The triumph of the Kelmscott Press, illustrated by Morris’s life-long friend, the artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones.  CAGM1991.1016.996.G1

The Kelmscott Press sample specimen book

This book was used by the Press to decide which borders and initials should be used, and has been annotated by William Morris. CAGM1991.1016.996.Z3

The Shepherdes Calendar, 1896

Press: Kelmscott Press, Author: Edmund Spenser

Illustrated by the Birmingham-based Arts and Crafts designer and artist Arthur Gaskin.  CAGM1991.1016.996.X54

The English Bible, vol. 1, 1903

Press: The Doves Press, Editor: Rev. Scrivener

Initials drawn by the calligrapher Edward Johnson. CAGM1991.1016.996.Y9

Men and Women, vol. 1, 1908

Press: Doves Press, Author: Robert Browning

Hand flourished by the calligrapher Edward Johnson. CAGM1991.1016.996.X2

Lo Inferno, 1902

Press: Ashendene Press, Author: Dante Alighieri

Illustrated by Robert Catterson-Smith and decorated by Graily Hewitt.  Copy on vellum.  Bound by Katharine Adams.  CAGM1991.1016.996.T14

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Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe, 1933

Press: Ashendene Press, Author: Longus

Ancient Greek novel translated into French and illustrated by Gwen Raverat.  CAGM1991.1016.D27

Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1884

Press: Chiswick Press, Author: Robert Browning

The illustrations and type in this book were produced by Robert Dunthorne, Emery Walker’s brother-in-law.  CAGM1991.1016.996.D61

Modern Painters, after 1843

Author: John Ruskin

Pages personally annotated by John Ruskin.  CAGM1991.1016.996.N73

The Prayer Book of Edward VII, 1903

Press: Essex House Press

The masterpiece of the Essex Press, with illustrations by the founder of the press, the Arts and Crafts designer C R Ashbee.  CAGM1986.1140

Sketchbook by Ernest Gimson, 1887

Author: Ernest Gimson

One of several sketchbooks by Gimson in Cheltenham’s collection, this from one 1887 from his travels in Italy.  CAGM1941.225

The Story of Cupid and Psyche

Press: Kelmscott Press, Illustrator: Edward Burne-Jones, engraved on wood by William Morris and others

This collection of images by Burne-Jones was for a book that was never produced. They were bound by Douglas Cockerell in 1902. CAGM1991.1016.996.Y3