Kelmscott Edition of Morris’ Own The Wood Beyond the World

 

Yes, ’tis true–The Rare Book Room has secured yet another title by the Kelmscott Press. This time ’tis William Morris’ own The Wood Beyond the World.

Call it fantasy fiction or romance, Morris, under the influence of C.S. Lewis perhaps, wrote The Wood Beyond the World in his later years. Lin Carter dubbed it “the first great fantasy novel ever written”… “in the Medieval sense” one might add.

Only five more to go until we complete the Kelmscott Press Collection. When the Library does complete this collection, it will have achieved a goal of its librarians past and present!

Another Kelmscott Press Acquisition

The Grosvenor Rare Book Room recently took delivery of the Kelmscott Press Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley and a beautiful edition/addition it is! Limited to 250 copies, this lovely 3-volume set inches  the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library a little closer to completing the Kelmscott Press collection according to William S. Peterson’s list in The Kelmscott Press.

This lovely octavo is bound in typical limp vellum with remnants of its silk ties and, curiously within the text, there is no red ink used in volume one, although it is used in the second volume and some in volume three. Every Kelmscott Press book is a wonder to behold. We gratefully celebrate the addition of this title to the Grosvenor Rare Book Collection!