7. Programmes of the Kelmscott Press annual wayzgoose for the years 1892-5. These were printed without supervision from Mr. Morris.

8. Specimen showing the three types used at the Press for insertion in the first edition of Strange’s Alphabets. March, 1895. 2000 ordinary copies and 60 on large paper.

9. Card for Associates of the Deaconess Institution for the Diocese of Rochester. One side of this card is printed in Chaucer type; on the other there is a prayer in the Troy type enclosed in a small border which was not used elsewhere. It was designed for the illustrations of a projected edition of The House of the Wolfings. April, 1897. 250 copies.

A LIST OF THE BOOKS DESCRIBED ABOVE. page
[1]The Glittering Plain (without illustrations)[15]
[2]Poems by the Way[15]
[3]Blunt’s Love Lyrics and Songs of Proteus[16]
[4]Ruskin’s Nature of Gothic[16]
[5]The Defence of Guenevere[16]
[6]A Dream of John Ball[17]
[7]The Golden Legend[17]
[8]The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye[18]
[9]Mackail’s Biblia Innocentium[19]
[10]Reynard the Foxe[19]
[11]Shakespeare’s Poems and Sonnets[20]
[12]News from Nowhere[20]
[13]The Order of Chivalry[20]
[14]Cavendish’s Life of Wolsey[21]
[15]Godefrey of Boloyne[21]
[16]More’s Utopia[22]
[17]Tennyson’s Maud[22]
[18]Gothic Architecture, by William Morris[22]
[19]Sidonia the Sorceress[23]
[20]Rossetti’s Ballads and Narrative Poems[23]
[20a] ” Sonnets and Lyrical Poems[24]
[21]King Florus[23]
[22]The Glittering Plain (illustrated)[23]
[23]Amis and Amile[24]
[24]The Poems of Keats[24]
[25]Swinburne’s Atalanta in Calydon[25]
[26]The Emperor Coustans[25]
[27]The Wood beyond the World[25]
[28]The Book of Wisdom and Lies[25]
[29]Shelley’s Poems, Vol. I.[26]
[29a] ” ” II.[28]
[29b] ” ” III.[28]
[30]Psalmi Penitentiales[26]
[31]Savonarola, De contemptu Mundi[26]
[32]Beowulf[27]
[33]Syr Perecyvelle[27]
[34]The Life and Death of Jason[27]
[35]Child Christopher[28]
[36]Rossetti’s Hand and Soul[28]
[37]Herrick’s Poems[29]
[38]Coleridge’s Poems[29]
[39]The Well at the World’s End[29]
[40]Chaucer’s Works[30]
[41]The Earthly Paradise, Vol. I.[32]
[41a] ” ” ” II.[33]
[41b] ” ” ” III.[34]
[41c] ” ” ” IV.[34]
[41d] ” ” ” V.[34]
[41e] ” ” ” VI.[34]
[41f] ” ” ” VII.[35]
[41g] ” ” ” VIII.[35]
[42]Laudes Beatæ Mariæ Virginis[33]
[43]The Floure and the Leafe[33]
[44]Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender[33]
[45]The Water of the Wondrous Isles[35]
[46]Trial pages of Froissart[36]
[47]Sire Degrevaunt[37]
[48]Syr Ysambrace[37]
[49]Some German Woodcuts[38]
[50]Sigurd the Volsung[38]
[51]The Sundering Flood[39]
[52]Love is Enough[39]
[53]A Note by William Morris[40]

LEAFLETS, &c.
Various lists and announcements relating to theKelmscott Press[40]
[1. ]Hammersmith Socialist Society, invitations[40]
[2. ]Ancoats Brotherhood leaflet[41]
[3. ]Address to Sir Lowthian Bell[41]
[4. ]An American Memorial to Keats[41]
[5. ]Memorial to Dr. Thomas Sadler[41]
[6. ]L. C. C. Scholarship Certificates[41]
[7. ]Wayzgoose Programmes[41]
[8. ]Specimen in Strange’s Alphabets[41]
[9. ]Card for Associates of the Deaconess Institutionfor the Diocese of Rochester[41]

Other works announced in the lists as in preparation, but afterwards abandoned, were The Tragedies, Histories, and Comedies of William Shakespeare; Caxton’s Vitas Patrum; The Poems of Theodore Watts-Dunton; and A Catalogue of the Collection of Woodcut Books, Early Printed Books, and Manuscripts at Kelmscott House. The text of the Shakespeare was to have been prepared by Dr. Furnivall. The original intention, as first set out in the list of May 20, 1893, was to print it in three vols. folio. A trial page from Lady Macbeth, printed at this time, is in existence. The same information is repeated until the list of July 2, 1895, in which the book is announced as to be a ‘small 4to (special size),’ i. e., the size afterwards adopted for The Earthly Paradise. It was not, however, begun, nor was the volume of Mr. Watts-Dunton’s poems. Of the Vitas Patrum, which was to have been uniform with The Golden Legend, a prospectus and specimen page were issued in March, 1894, but the number of subscribers did not justify its going beyond this stage. Two trial pages of the Catalogue were set up; some of the material prepared for it has now appeared in Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century. In addition to these books, The Hill of Venus, as stated on [p. 38], was in preparation. Among works that Mr. Morris had some thought of printing may also be mentioned The Bible, Gesta Romanorum, Malory’s Morte Darthur, The High History of the San Graal (translated by Dr. Sebastian Evans), Piers Ploughman, Huon of Bordeaux, Caxton’s Jason, a Latin Psalter, The Prymer or Lay Folk’s Prayer-Book, Some Mediæval English Songs and Music, The Pilgrim’s Progress, and a Book of Romantic Ballads. He was engaged on the selection of the Ballads, which he spoke of as the finest poems in our language, during his last illness.

THE IDEAL BOOK: AN ADDRESS BY WILLIAM[!-- unnumbered --] MORRIS, DELIVERED BEFORE THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, MDCCCXCIII.

By the Ideal Book, I suppose we are to understand a book not limited by commercial exigencies of price: we can do what we like with it, according to what its nature, as a book, demands of art. But we may conclude, I think, that its matter will limit us somewhat; a work on differential calculus, a medical work, a dictionary, a collection of a statesman’s speeches, or a treatise on manures, such books, though they might be handsomely and well printed, would scarcely receive ornament with the same exuberance as a volume of lyrical poems, or a standard classic, or such like. A work on Art, I think, bears less of ornament than any other kind of book (“non bis in idem” is a good motto); again, a book that must have illustrations, more or less utilitarian, should, I think, have no actual ornament at all, because the ornament and the illustration must almost certainly fight.

Still whatever the subject matter of the book may be, and however bare it may be of decoration, it can still be a work of art, if the type be good and attention be paid to its general arrangement. All here present, I should suppose, will agree in thinking an opening of Schœffer’s 1462 Bible beautiful, even when it has neither been illuminated nor rubricated; the same may be said of Schussler, or Jenson, or, in short, of any of the good old printers; their books, without any further ornament than they derived from the design and arrangement of the letters, were definite works of art. In fact a book, printed or written, has a tendency to be a beautiful object, and that we of this age should generally produce ugly books, shows, I fear, something like malice prepense—a determination to put our eyes in our pockets wherever we can.