{"id":10802,"date":"2026-04-30T11:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.typeandforme.com\/?p=10802"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:53:36","slug":"william-morris-the-defence-of-guenevere-kelmscott-press-1892-1st-kelmscott-press-ed-one-of-300-copies-on-flower-paper-4750","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.typeandforme.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/william-morris-the-defence-of-guenevere-kelmscott-press-1892-1st-kelmscott-press-ed-one-of-300-copies-on-flower-paper-4750\/","title":{"rendered":"William Morris: The Defence of Guenevere&#8230;, 1892 &#8211; 1st Kelmscott Press ed., one of 300 copies on &#8216;Flower&#8217; paper. \u00a34,750"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>THE KELMSCOTT PRESS EDITION OF MORRIS\u2019S&nbsp;<em>DEFENCE OF GUENEVERE<\/em>,<\/strong><br><strong>WHICH CONTAINS \u2018SOME OF THE MOST POWERFUL POEMS OF THE MID-CENTURY\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MORRIS, William.<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems<\/em>.&nbsp;Hammersmith: \u2018printed at [&#8230;] the Kelmscott Press [&#8230;] Sold by Reeves &amp; Turner\u2019, 1892.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quarto (205 x 145mm), pp. [2 (blank l.)], [2 (half-title, contents)], 169, [1 (colophon)], [2 (blank)]. Printed in Golden type in red and black. 2 full wood-engraved borders and one wood-engraved corner-border, six- and ten-line wood-engraved initials, and wood-engraved press device [Peterson no. 1], all after Morris. (A few light spots or marks, some unobtrusive light offsetting.) Original limp natural vellum with yapp fore-edges [by J. &amp; J. Leighton], spine calligraphically lettered in black ink [by Herbert M. Ellis], light green silk ties [supplied by Morris &amp; Co.], uncut, a few quires partially unopened. (A few light marks, covers slightly cockled, ties lightly faded and spotted, slightly frayed at ends.) A very good copy in the original vellum binding.&nbsp;<em>Provenance<\/em>: Bernard Quaritch Ltd, London (list \u2018Bernard Quaritch Ltd 47th California Book Fair [&#8230;] 7-9 February 2014 Pasadena\u2019, no.&nbsp;59; pencilled stock number on lower pastedown).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"654\" src=\"https:\/\/www.typeandforme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3181_08.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.typeandforme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3181_08.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.typeandforme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3181_08-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.typeandforme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3181_08-241x350.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First Kelmscott Press edition, this one of 300 on \u2018Flower\u2019 paper&nbsp;<\/strong>from an edition of 310 copies.&nbsp;<em>The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems<\/em>&nbsp;was&nbsp;the first book published by the writer, printer, and designer William Morris (1834-1896), and was originally issued at the author\u2019s own expense in March 1858, just before his twenty-fifth birthday. The volume also had the distinction of being the first book of Pre-Raphaelite poetry to be published, and it \u2018accordingly drew scorn from a critical establishment still uneasy about the influence of the Brotherhood founded ten years previously.&nbsp;<em>The Spectator<\/em>&nbsp;was representative in speaking of the \u201cfaults of affectation and bad taste\u201d in the poems, although there were a few favourable responses. What seemed affectation to conventional minds was what attracted younger readers to poems that carry the Romantic impulse strongly forward in the narrative form which [&#8230;] held the strongest appeal for Morris. These are some of the most powerful poems of the mid-century\u2019 (P. Faulkner, \u2018The Writer\u2019 in L. Parry (ed.),&nbsp;<em>William Morris<\/em>&nbsp;(London, 1996), pp. 44-48, at p. 45). Similarly,&nbsp;Morris\u2019s biographer&nbsp;Fiona McCarthy judges that \u2018[t]hese are difficult poems, unsettling and demanding. Not all are successful [&#8230;]. But at their best they have a brilliance, a freshness and a quirkiness that Morris\u2019s poetry did not achieve again\u2019 (F. McCarthy,&nbsp;<em>William Morris: A Life for our Time<\/em>&nbsp;(London, 1994), p. 143). Despite the initial critical reception, later in the nineteenth century Algernon Swinburne and Gerard Manley Hopkins expressed their admiration for these poems, while in the twentieth century both Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats admired them, and the first edition of 1858 was followed by a number of reprints.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"639\" src=\"https:\/\/www.typeandforme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3181_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.typeandforme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3181_02.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.typeandforme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3181_02-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.typeandforme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3181_02-219x350.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kelmscott Press edition of&nbsp;<em>The Defence of Guenevere<\/em>&nbsp;was set from a Reeves &amp; Turner reprint of 1889, with minor alterations, and was the fifth book published by Morris\u2019s Kelmscott Press. It was published on 19 May 1892, and the edition was composed of 310 copies, 300 of which were printed on the first size of \u2018Flower\u2019 paper made by Joseph Batchelor for Morris (as here) and were sold for 2 guineas each (the remaining 10 copies were printed on vellum and sold for about 12 guineas each).<em>&nbsp;<\/em>This Kelmscott Press edition of<em>&nbsp;The Defence of Guenevere<\/em>&nbsp;is notable as both the first book from the press to be bound in limp vellum and the only one to have a hand-lettered title on the spine (the calligraphy was by H.M. Ellis, the son of Morris\u2019s friend, literary associate, and executor, F.S. Ellis).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>E. Le Mire,&nbsp;<em>Bibliography of William Morris<\/em>, A-2.04; W.S. 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