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Bayiltmiş Öğütcü, Oya. ‘A Pictorial Utopia: The Kelmscott Chaucer.’ Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 57.2 (2017): 1055-69.
Boos, Florence. "The Critique of the Empty Page: Kelmscott Press and William Morris's Theories of Book Design."
William Morris and Everyday Life
, ed. Wendy Parkins, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar Press, 2010, 65-85.
Braesel, Michaela. "The Influence of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts on the Pre-Raphaelites and the Early Poetry of William Morris."
JWMS
15.4 (Summer 2004): 41-54.
Braesel, Michaela. “Women and Trees – The Transfer of an Idea: Reflections on the Title Page of ‘A Book of Verse.’”
Useful and Beautiful
, William Morris Society in the United States, Spring 2017: 14-16.
Brown, Hannah. “Binding Two Kelmscott Press Publications: A Contemporary View.”
The Journal of William Morris Studies
, vol. XXIV, no. 1-2, 2020.
Buxton Forman, H.,
The Books of William Morris Described
. London: Frank Hollings, 1897 [reprinted 1976]. Formerly the standard bibliography of Morris's books despite the inclusion of forgeries and piracies perpetrated by the author and his friend Thomas J. Wise; for the current standard bibliography, see Eugene LeMire,
A Bibliography of William Morris
, below.
Carlin, Jane. “The Lasting Legacy of the Kelmscott Press.”
Useful and Beautiful
, William Morris Society in the United States, Summer 2021: 3-12.
Chapman, Alison Georgina. “Ornament and Distraction: Peripheral Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century.”
Victorian Literature and Culture
45.2 (2017): 233–255.
Cockerell, Sydney C., "History of the Kelmscott Press" and "An Annotated List of the Books Printed at the Kelmscott Press," in William Morris,
A Note on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press
. [Kelmscott Press, 1898].
Coupe, Robert L. M.,
Illustrated Editions of the Works of William Morris in English: A Descriptive Bibliography
. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. Second edition, 2011.
Coupe, Robert. “William Morris and Collins Clear Type Press.”
Useful and Beautiful
, William Morris Society in the United States, January 2014: 3-11.
Cowan, Yuri. "Translation, Collaboration, and Reception: Editing Caxton for the Kelmscott Press."
To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss: William Morris and the Embodiment of Dreams,
Mc-Gill-Queens University Press, 2014, 316-63.
Davidson, Joshua. “Whose Book is This, Anyway? Editing at the Kelmscott and Hogarth Presses.”
Useful and Beautiful
, William Morris Society in the United States, January 2011: 14-19.
Donachuk, Aaron. “After the Letter: Typographical Distraction and the Surface of Morris’s Kelmscott Romances.” Victorian Studies, 59.2 (Winter 2017): 260-87.
Dunlap, Joseph R.,
The Book That Never Was
. New York, 1971. Account of the projected illustrated edition of Morris's
The Earthly Paradise,
which partially came to fruition a century later in the Rampant Lion Press version of
The Story of Cupid and Psyche
produced in 1974.
Dunlap, Joseph R. "Morris and the Book Arts Before the Kelmscott Press."
Victorian Poetry
13.3 and 4 (1975), 141-157.
Faulkner, Peter. "The Kelmscott Chaucer and the Golden Cockerel Canterbury Tales," JWMS 19.1 (Winter 2010), 66-88.
Frankel, Nicholas. "William Morris and the 'Moral Qualities' of Ornament," Socialist Studies/Etudes sociaistes (Canada), 13.1 (Spring 2018), 23-35.
Kooistra, Lorraine Janzen. “Fundamental Sympathy: The Gothic, the Fin-De-Siècle Printing Revival and the Digital.”
The Journal of William Morris Studies
, vol. XXIV, no. 1-2, 2020.
LeMire, Eugene D.
A Bibliography of William Morris,
London: British Library; Newark, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2006.
Life, Alan, "Illustration of Morris's 'Ideal Book,'" and Joseph R. Dunlap, "Morris and the Book Arts Before the Kelmscott Press,"
Victorian Poetry
(1975). This was a special issue of the journal devoted to Morris, illustrated.
Marsh, Jan. "Books in Bottles? William Morris and the Demise of Printing," JWMS 20.2 (Summer 2013).
Peterson, William S.,
A Bibliography of the Kelmscott Press
. Oxford UP, 1984. Definitive, detailed information on the Kelmscott Press: includes provenance information and notes on particular copies and related materials.
The Kelmscott Press Golden Legend: A Documentary History of its Production, Together with a Leaf from the Kelmscott Edition
, ed. William S. Peterson. [College Park], 1990. Leaf book with introduction and facsimiles of related documents.
Peterson, William S.,
The Kelmscott Press: A History of William Morris's Typographical Adventure
. Oxford UP, 1991. By far the best book on the subject, offering not only a detailed history of the Press but analysis of Morris's aesthetic seen in the context of Victorian printing. An essential work, superseding almost everything else written on the subject.
Peterson, William S. “The Kelmscott Press in a Nineteenth-Century Context.”
The Journal of William Morris Studies
, vol. XXIV, no. 1-2, 2020.
Peterson, William S. “Morris & Company: Essays on Fine Printing.” New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2020.
Samuels Lasner, Mark,
William Morris: The Collector as Creator
. New York: Grolier Club, 1996. Checklist of the exhibition held at the Grolier Club, 1996–97, listing books owned and read by Morris and examples of Morris's own works in literature, politics, and the book arts.
Sparling, Henry Halliday,
The Kelmscott Press and William Morris, Master Craftsman
. London, 1924. Earlier history of the Kelmscott Press, incorporating Cockerell's checklist. Now superseded by Peterson's
History.
Stirling, John. “The People of the Kelmscott Press.”
The Journal of William Morris Studies
,
vol. XXIV, no. 1-2, 2020.
The Typographical Adventure of William Morris
. [London: William Morris Society, 1957]. Catalogue of a traveling exhibition organized by the William Morris Society in 1957. Places Morris's work in context of other printers and designers from 1850 to 1940.
William Morris And the Art of the Book
, ed. Charles Ryskamp. New York: Oxford UP, 1976. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1976. With essays: "William Morris: Book Collector" by Paul Needham; "William Morris: Calligrapher" by Joseph Dunlap; and "William Morris: Typographer" by John Dreyfus. Detailed and illustrated, an essential source.
Taylor, Michelle M. “How Well Did Morris Recreate 15th Century Paper for the Kelmscott Press?”
Useful and Beautiful
, William Morris Society in the United States, Winter 2021: 19-21.
Thompson, Susan Otis,
American Book Design and William Morris
. New York, 1977; reprinted Newark, DE, 1996. Pioneering study of the influence of Morris's Kelmscott Press on American publishers and printers.
Tidcombe, Marianne. “Cobden-Sanderson and Morris: Friends and Sparring Partners.”
The Journal of William Morris Studies
, vol. XXIV, no. 1-2, 2020.
Walsdorf, John,
William Morris in Private Press And Limited Editions
. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1983. Useful bibliographical catalogue of books by and about Morris issued 1890-1982 in limited or fine editions.
Woody, Christine Marie. "The Newspaper and the Novel: William Morris’s
News from Nowhere
in
Commonweal
."
Victorian Periodicals Review
, 50.1, 2017.