A large collection from the personal library of British artist, author and socialist William Morris (1834–1896), including many works marked with his Kelmscott House bookplate.
Images from the collections
![Here begynneth the orcharde of Syon, in the whiche is conteyned the Revelacyons of Seynt Katheryne of Sene, with ghostly fruytes and precyous plants for the helthe of mannes soule / [Catherine].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0021220/full/320%2C/0/default.jpg)
![De frugum historia liber unus. Ejusdem epistolae duae, una de farre, chondro, trago, ptisana, crimino et alica. Altera de zytho et cerevisia / [Rembert Dodoens].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0050144/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Kreutterbuch. Von aller Kreutter, Gethier, Gesteyne unnd Metal, Natur, Nutz und Gebrauch. Distillier Zeug und Bericht, allerhandt kostbarliche Wasser zubrennen, halten unnd gebrauchen / [Eucharius Rösslin].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0050141/full/320%2C/0/default.jpg)
![De frugum historia liber unus. Ejusdem epistolae duae, una de farre, chondro, trago, ptisana, crimino et alica. Altera de zytho et cerevisia / [Rembert Dodoens].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0050145/full/320%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Quarta impressio ornatissima: continens omnes Galeni libros alias impressos ... Emittensque alios ejusdem libros nunquam cum aliis impressos / [Galen].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0027085/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Beskrivelse over Finmarkens Lapper, deres tungemaal, levemaade og forrige afgudsdyrkelse = Canuti Leemii De Lapponibus Finmarchiæ : eorumqve lingva, vita et religione pristina commentatio / med J.E. Gunneri ... anmaerkninger; og E.J. Jessen-S. ... Afhandling om de Norske Finners og Lappers hedenske religion. Canuti Leemii ... De Lapponibus Finmarchiae eorumque lingua, vita et religione pristina, commentatio ... una cum J.E. Gunneri notis; et E. J. Jessen-S. ... Tractatu singulari de Finnorum Lapponumque Norvegic. religione pagana. [In Danish and Latin].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0025889/full/320%2C/0/default.jpg)
![De mundi et spherae ac utriusque partium declaratione cum planetis et variis signis historiatis / [Hyginus].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0012490/full/320%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Here begynneth the orcharde of Syon, in the whiche is conteyned the Revelacyons of Seynt Katheryne of Sene, with ghostly fruytes and precyous plants for the helthe of mannes soule / [Catherine].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0021214/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Here begynneth the orcharde of Syon, in the whiche is conteyned the Revelacyons of Seynt Katheryne of Sene, with ghostly fruytes and precyous plants for the helthe of mannes soule / [Catherine].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0004374/full/320%2C/0/default.jpg)
Works from the collections
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Plant studies for artists, designers, and art students / by George Charles Haité.
Haité, George Charles.Date: 1886- Books
Antiquitates Celto-Normannicae, containing the Chronicle of Man and the Isles, abridged by Camden, and now first published complete, from the orginal ms. in the British musæum; with an English translation, and notes. To which are added extracts from the Annals of Ulster, and Sir J. Ware's Antiquities of Ireland: British topography by Ptolemy, Richard of Cirencester, the Geographer of Ravenna, and Andrew Bishop of Cathness: together with accurate catalogues of the Pictish and Scottish kings / By the Rev. James Johnstone. [In Latin and English].
James JohnstoneDate: 1786
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A compendious history of the Goths, Swedes, and Vandals, and other northern nations / Written by Olaus Magnus.
Olaus MagnusDate: 1658
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Comoediae / [Terence].
TerenceDate: 11 Feb. 1499- Books
Íslenzkir Annálar, sive annales Islandici, ab anno Christi 803 ad annum 1430 / Ex Legati Arnæ-Magnæani et Magnæ bibliothecæ regiæ hafniensis melioris notæ codicibus membranaceis et chartaceis, cum interpretatione latina, variis lectionibus, prolegomenis, nec non indice personarum, locorum & rerum. [In Icelandic and Latin].
Date: 1847
13 works
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The collected letters of William Morris / edited by Norman Kelvin.
William MorrisDate: [1984-<1987>]- Books
The art of the book, William Morris and after, 1892-1977 : an exhibition in the Adeane Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 14 March-23 April 1978.
Date: [1978]- Books
William Morris and the art of the book / with essays on William Morris as book collector / by Paul Needham ; as calligrapher / by Joseph Dunlap ; and, as typographer / by John Dreyfus ; [edited by Paul Needham].
Paul NeedhamDate: 1976- Books
William Morris : the collector as creator handlist of a centenary exhibition held at the Grolier Club of New York, 11 December 1996 to 15 February 1997.
Mark Samuels LasnerDate: 1996- Videos
Darwin's dangerous idea. Part 3, Life and death.
Date: 2009