William Morris Society Publications
Publications of the William Morris Society are designed to disseminate knowledge of the life and work of Morris and his associates, and to help to make his works available to all. The Society therefore publishes a range of works about Morris and his associates, designed to a high typographical standard and available at very reasonable prices. These include the annual Kelmscott Lectures, delivered to the Society by Morris experts in a series which began in 1980.
The following are currently available at the prices indicated; postage and packing is additional:
Available Publications
| Bennett, Phillippa. 978 0 903283 23 9 |
The Last Romances and the Kelmscott Press. The 2006 Kelmscott Lecture 2009 paperback. £4.00 |
| Boos, Florence S. 9780903283298 |
Socialist Aesthetics & The Shadows of Amiens. The 2007 Kelmscott Lecture 2011 paperback £6 |
| Boos, Florence S. 0931332052 pb, 0931332060 hb |
The Juvenilia of William Morris. With a Checklist and Unpublished Writings 1983 hardback or paperback £6 |
| Coleman, Roger 0 903283 20 4 |
By Accident or Design? The 1992 Kelmscott Lecture 1996 paperback. £3.50 |
| Crawford, Alan 9780903283281 |
After Kelmscott The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Cotswolds The 2009 Kelmscott Lecture 2010 paperback £5 |
| Crick, Martin 9780903283304 |
The History of the William Morris Society 1955-2005 2011 paperback £15 |
| Dreyfus, John 0 903283 11 5 |
William Morris and the Printed Book. The 1986 Kelmscott Lecture 1989 paperback. £5 |
| Elletson, Helen 978 0 903283 27 4 |
A History of Kelmscott House. Published 2009; paperback with colour illustrations £5 |
| Faulkner, Peter 0 903283 16 6 |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and the Morrises. The 1980 Kelmscott Lecture 1981 paperback. £2 |
| Faulkner, Peter 0 903283 08 5 |
William Morris and Eric Gill. The 1963 Peter Floud Memorial Prize Essay 1975; reprinted 1997 paperback. £3.50 |
| Goldman, Lawrence 0903283239 |
From Art to Politics. John Ruskin and William Morris The 2000 Kelmscott Lecture 2005 paperback £4 |
| Goodwin, KL 0903183 04 2 |
A Preliminary Handlist of Manuscripts and Documents of William Morris. 1983 paperback. £3 |
| Hilton, Rodney 0 903283 12 3 |
The Change Beyond the Change: A Dream of John Ball. The 1989 Kelmscott Lecture 1990 paperback. £3 |
| Hodgson, Amanda 0 903283 21 2 |
The Witch in the Wood: William Morris’s Romance Heroines & the Late Victorian “New Woman”. The 1997 Kelmscott Lecture 2000 paperback. £4 |
| Holst, Imogen | Homage to Morris For bass voice and strings [musical score]. 1984 paperback. £2.50 |
| Kelvin, Norman 0 903283 20 4 |
Letters as Biography & Autobiography: Morris’s Letters to Jane & Jenny Morris. The 1996 Kelmscott Lecture 1999 paperback. £3 |
| Lethaby, W.R. | William Morris as Artist. 1926 lecture; 2007 paperback. Edited by Godfrey Rubens. £2 |
| Lethaby, W.R. no ISBN |
Simple Furniture Essay from a collection published in 1892 called ‘Plain Handicrafts’. Leaflet £1 |
| Levitas, Ruth 0 903283 24 7 |
Morris, Hammersmith and Utopia. The 2002 Kelmscott Lecture 2005 paperback. £6 |
| MacCarthy, Fiona 0 903283 19 0 |
Telling the Tale of Topsy: William Morris's Biographers. The 1993 Kelmscott Lecture 1996 paperback. £3 |
| Morris, Barbara 0 903283 10 7 |
William Morris and the South Kensington Museum. The 1985 Kelmscott Lecture 1987 paperback. £3 |
| Poulson, Christine 0 903283 22 0 |
Morris, Burne-Jones & the Quest for the Holy Grail. The 1998 Kelmscott Lecture 2001 paperback. £5 |
| Preston, Peter 978 0 903283 25 0 |
Dreaming London: The Future City in Morris & Others. The 2003 Kelmscott Lecture 2007 paperback. £6.50 |
| Purkis, John 0 903283 06 9 |
The Icelandic Jaunt: A Study of the Expeditions Made to Iceland in 1871 and 1973. The 1961 Peter Floud Memorial Prize Essay 1962; reprinted 1991 paperback. £3.50 |
| Thompson, Paul 0 903283 15 8 |
Why William Morris Matters Today: Human Creativity and the Future World Environment. The 1990 Kelmscott Lecture 1991 paperback. £4 |
| William Morris Society 0903283093 |
Memorial Folder with facsimiles of two Morris letters, his m/s draft of Unjust War, George Howard's drawing of Morris and an introduction by Ray Watkinson. 1984 folder £3 |
| William Morris Society 0903283174 |
Red House - A Guide 1993 paperback £2 |
Works by Morris Himself
Other Society publications include two works by Morris himself in modern editions:
| Morris, William 0903283 18 2 |
The Relations of Art to Labour, edited by Alan Bacon & Lionel Young. 2004 paperback £8 |
| Morris, William 978 0 903283 26 7 |
Our Country Right or Wrong, edited by Florence Boos. 2008 paperback £7 |
| Morris, William |
The Tables Turned or Nupkins Awakened A Socialist Interlude by William Morris Play performed by The New Factory of the Eccentric Actor 2010 Audio CD £8 |
PUBLICATIONS OF THE WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY IN AMERICA
| Hollow, J. (ed) 0931332028 |
The After Summer Seed: Reconsiderations of William Morris’s “The Story of Sigurd the Volsing” 1978 Paperback £4 |
| Timo, Helen A. (ed) 0931332079 |
The Widow’s House by the Great Water by William Morris 1990 paperback £5.50 |
The Journal of William Morris Studies
The Journal of William Morris Studies welcomes contributions on all subjects relating to the life and works of William Morris. Articles may therefore concern Morris’s own life and works, or those of his circle – as directly influenced by, or influencing, Morris himself and his interests – or the wider implications of Morris’s ideas in design, literature, printing, political thought and environmentalism. Please see the Journal Page for more information
Ordering Publications
To order any of these publications, please send a sterling cheque to the Office Manager at Kelmscott House, 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith London W6 9TA; the order will be sent with an invoice to cover postage. If you have any enquiries please contact us via the Contacts and Location Page.
Customers in North America should contact the William Morris Society at PO Box 53263, Washington, DC 20009, or email us@morrissociety.org