KELMSCOTT PRESS: COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor.

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Poems Chosen Out of the Works. First Kelmscott edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Morris on the second blank seven days before publication, "To Edward Burne-Jones from William Morris, April 5th 1896". Burne-Jones's book label, printed in Morris's Golden type, is on the front pastedown. This is one of 300 copies printed on paper.Burne-Jones designed books for the Kelmscott Press between 1892 and 1898. At the end of his life, the artist wrote: "Morris's friendship began everything for me; everything that I afterwards cared for". Morris and Burne-Jones met in 1853 as undergraduates at Exeter College, Oxford. Bonded by a mutual admiration for medieval culture and a desire to resist industrialization's impact on art, they abandoned their divinity studies and, at the suggestion of their friend Dante Gabriel Rossetti, moved together to London. Their collaboration became one of the most defining creative partnerships of the arts and crafts movement, shaping its ideals through their work in painting, design, and book arts. The text was edited by the bookseller and author Frederick Startridge Ellis (1830-1901), a close friend of Morris and Burne-Jones.

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