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Description: Consists of 16 leaves (including title page) of mounted drawings and proofs, and one folded sheet by William Morris for initials, borders and illustrations for his poem "Love is enough". The title page has an illuminated initial colored in red. The remaining images are pencil or ink on paper. All images are mounted on rectos. Morris was apparently unable to find a complementary typeface for his designs and issued an undecorated book in 1873. In 1898, two years after his death, the Kelmscott Press published an illustrated version utilizing only a portion of the original ornaments. Some pages have ms. inscriptions in pencil, probably by S. C. Cockerell, Morris' secretary.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1870
Call number: 637673
Creator: Morris, William (1834-1896)

Unpublished woodcuts for the Tale of Cupid and Psyche

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Title page is manuscript in red and black with illuminated initial. Mounted on cardboard leaf. Contains drawings and proofs designed by Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) illustrating the William Morris (1834-1896) tale "Cupid and Psyche". Morris himself cut the majority of the blocks. The text and images were intended for "The Earthly Paradise: A Poem", but Morris was unable to find a satisfactory typeface for the images. The work was published in 1868 containing just one illustration. The plates are identified and numbered in manuscript by Sydney C. Cockerell (1867-1962). Plates are numbered 1-44 (some in multiple states) with several missing (9, 11, 14-17, 20, 33). Also includes woodcuts of Medusa’s Head, trial block proof for the Story of Pygmalian and the Image. Also includes a letter from S.C. Cockerell to H.C. Marillier (1865-1951). Ephemera laid into beginning include: handwritten inventory of plates by Cockerell, a sheet and a half of typewritten contents of the portfolio, a half sheet, typewritten describing the contents of the portfolio containing "Borders & initials for Love is enough" and a small envelope entitled: Cupid & Psyche Note, which contains an auction catalog clipping describing the contents of the portfolios and identifying George Wardle as the previous owner. Wardle was the general manager of Morris' Queen Square workshop.

637674

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-----. 1 telegram to Sir Emery Walker, 1851-1933, draft (1 p.), (1896, Oct. 6)

Manuscripts

In pencil, draft written on behalf of Harry Buxton Forman concerning the funeral of William Morris.

MOR 611

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Morris, William, 1834-1896. "Art, Wealth, and Riches:" [an Address delivered at…the Manchester Literary Club…], MS. (typewritten: 32 p.), (1883, Mar. 6)

Manuscripts

With autograph corrections and annotations, some in an unknown hand. Note: title page is marked: "No. 3".

MOR 14

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[Russell, Elizabeth Mary, Countess, 1866-1941.] "The Anonymous in Poetry:" [essay], MS. (typewritten: 20 p.), ([ca. 1930?])

Manuscripts

With note (in pencil): "This evidently is by Elizabeth of the Pomerania days," in an unknown hand. Also, label glued to title page for A.P. Watt & Son.

ER 16

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[Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962]. [Notes on the printing of The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye by the Kelmscott Press], A.MS. (1 p.), ([ca. 1900?])

Manuscripts

Also: index card with autograph note by Sanford Berger(?). Note: in pencil, written on Kelmscott Primrose watermarked paper; includes a quote by William Morris.

MOR 2

Glass drawing slate within a decorative wooden frame with paper border

Visual Materials

One glass drawing slate within a decorative wooden frame with paper border. Accompanying the slate are two sheets of images, one in color (patterns) and one in outline images, to be used with the drawing slate. The slate glass bears the pencil-drawn images of an elephant, cherries, and a flower. Title supplied by cataloger.

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Unpublished woodcuts for the Tale of Cupid and Psyche

-----. 1 telegram to Sir Emery Walker, 1851-1933, draft (1 p.), (1896, Oct. 6)

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[Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962]. [Notes on the printing of The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye by the Kelmscott Press], A.MS. (1 p.), ([ca. 1900?])

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