Sanford and Helen Berger collection of Kelmscott Press ephemera

The Sanford and Helen Berger collection of Kelmscott Press ephemera contains proofs, drawings, paper samples, and additional ephemera from William Morris's Kelmscott Printing Press. The bulk of the materials date from approximately 1891 to 1898, though the collection also contains some reference files and other ephemera dating from the 1930s to the 1990s.

The collection contains prints by Arts and Crafts movement artists Edward Burne-Jones, Charles M. Gere, Walter Crane, Robert Catterson-Smith, Emery Walker, William Harcourt Hooper, and others.

Also included are proofs illustrated with William Morris's decorative initial and border ornamentation, and typography samples of the Golden, Troy, and Chaucer fonts. Many proofs include notes by Morris on design and text.

Some proofs of Kelmscott titles included are: Beowulf, the Golden Legend, the History of Reynard the Foxe, Poems by the Way, the Recuyelle of the Historyes of Troye, the Story of the Glittering Plain, the Water of the Wondrous Isle, the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, and others.

The collection also contains ephemera with notes by Morris's secretary Sir Sydney C. Cockerell, in addition to circulars, order forms, certificates, and paper samples watermarked with Morris's flower and perch designs.