NMLP P-043985 · Book-club / reprint tell · 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
No book-club edition is documented in the sources consulted for either 1896 issue. Reprint tells are structural rather than textual: the Longmans first is a 2-volume set in linen-backed boards with printed paper spine labels, so any one-volume 'Well at the World's End' in ordinary publisher's cloth is a later printing or reprint. A Kelmscott claim must be supported by Chaucer type, the four Burne-Jones woodcuts, the Morris borders and initials, and the limp vellum with ties, since modern facsimiles and reprints exist and the Kelmscott name is often loosely applied to trade reprints of the text.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-043985 for "The Well at the World's End" by William Morris (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043985, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).