NMLP P-043981 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Well at the World's End

William Morris · Kelmscott Press (Hammersmith) — publication priority; Longmans, Green & Co. (London) — printing priority · 1896

Peterson A39) is limited to 350 copies on paper, printed in Chaucer type with chapter and shoulder titles in red, four large woodcut illustrations after Edward Burne-Jones, and Morris's woodcut initials and borders, issued in publisher's limp vellum with green silk ties; it spent longer in production than any other Kelmscott publication, printing from December 1892 to March 1896, and was originally to have been illustrated by Arthur J. Gaskin before Morris replaced his work with Burne-Jones's

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-043981 for "The Well at the World's End" by William Morris (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043981, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).