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Golden Type

A roman typeface c. 1890-1891

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News from Nowhere, 1892, Hammersmith, Kelmscott Press

EXAMPLES ON THE ARCHIVE

The Defence of Guenevere

The Earthly Paradise

Poems by the Way

The Story of the Glittering Plain

News from Nowhere

Gothic Architecture 

An American Memorial to Keats

Troy Type 

A Gothic typeface c. 1892

18 point

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EXAMPLES ON THE ARCHIVE

The Life and Death of Jason

Love Is Enough

The Wood Beyond the World

Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile

The Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane

The Tale of Emperor Coustans and Over Sea

Chaucer Type

A Gothic typeface c. 1892

12 point

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Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair Volume 1, 1895, Kelmscott Press 

EXAMPLES ON THE ARCHIVE

Sigurd the Volsung

Well at the World's End

Water of the Wondrous Isles

The Sundering Flood

Child Christopher vol. 1

Child Christopher vol. 2

Beowulf

Morris and the Book Arts

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