Visual Materials

Ephemera

Description: Box contains Kelmscott Press related stationery, programs, notices, certificate samples, and other ephemera. Also included are invitations and programs to memorials for John Keats and for William Morris. Majority of the items are circulars and order forms announcing publications printed by Kelmscott Press. The circulars and order forms are organized by date when known.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1891-1934, bulk 1891-1898
Call number: priBerger
Provenance: Purchased from Sanford and Helen Berger, October 1999.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

Sanford and Helen Berger collection of Kelmscott Press ephemera

Visual Materials

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.

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Vivian-Young; ephemera

Manuscripts

Contains letters, printed material, programs, menus, circulars, newspaper and magazine clippings.

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Exhibition Ephemera

Rare Books

Contains: Envelope labeled "Morris & Co. – The Textiles Label / Monterey Museum of Art" Envelope labeled "Kelmscott Press/ 100th Anniversary/ Exhibit Captions Sheets of labels for "William Morris: The Sanford & Helen Berger Collection" Folder labeled in ms pencil "Sandy's 1st Exhibit" Photocopies of exhibit floor plans for "William Morris: The Sanford and Helen Berger Collection" Miscellaneous photocopied exhibition lists Envelope of undated photographs from the Huntington's "William Morris: The Sanford & Helen Berger Collection" exhibition with an ms note to Berger from John & Cara Osborne. Envelope of proofs for announcement of 1975 Kelmscott Press exhibition – "Drawings and Trial Designs for the Kelmscott Press from the Collection of Sanford and Helen Berger" Commemoratives – "The Morris Work Book" and "The Morris Essay Book" from Morris & Co: Stained Glass Windows, Painted Tiles & Ceramics ... from the Collection of Sanford & Helen Berger at the Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University, 4 March - 4 May 1975 Box of exhibition number labels

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Proofs, illustrations, and paper samples

Visual Materials

Materials include prints, illustrations, proofs, paper samples, and other materials that measure 15 x 10 in. or smaller. Proofs and illustrations are organized alphabetically by project; some titles include: Ancoat's Brotherhood, Beowulf, the Golden Legend, the History of Reynard the Foxe, Poems by the Way, the Water of the Wondrous Isle, and more. Illustrations include sketches of borders and other ornamentation by William Morris. Prints include Edward Burne-Jones's illustrations for the Golden Legend, Love is Enough, the Wood Beyond the World, works by Geoffrey Chaucer and others. Also included is a print of Charles M. Gere's frontispiece for News from Nowhere. Paper samples are made with unmixed linen, possibly sourced from J. Batchelor & Son of Little Chart, Kent, and include watermarks of a flower (primrose). One of the paper samples is signed by William Morris and dated April 23, 1891. Some paper samples without watermarks are also included. The box also contains miscellaneous items such as acidity paper test samples, and Kelmscott Press reference materials acquired by Sanford Berger from the 1930s to 1990s.

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Fine press printing publications, woodcuts, and ephemera

Rare Books

This black three-ring binder contains mainly various Doves Press ephemera including order and subscription forms, announcements, prospectuses, catalogues, and lists ranging from the early 1900s to 1923.

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Ephemera and Miscellaneous

Manuscripts

Archival and manuscript portion of the Sanford and Helen Berger collection. In addition to the papers of William Morris and his associates, the collection also includes materials on nineteenth and twentieth century British Pre-Raphaelites, fine Printing and private presses -- Kelmscott Press, (including the Kelmscott Chaucer), and the Doves Press, architects, illustrators, and the Arts & Crafts movement .

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