The Virtual Library
Discover some of the treasures of the Emery Walker Library with our virtual books.
Turn a selection of the pages of some of our most beautiful books. This is a complete list of all our virtual books. Please choose the one you’d like to see.
Fragments translated, written out and decorated by William Morris from Sir Lancelot du Lac, the Saga of Howard the Halt, the Heimskringa Etc., 1890s
Author:William Morris
Text and illustrations by William Morris. Bound by Douglas Cockerell. CAGM1991.1016.996.Z2
Some Chapters of the Story of the Men of Weaponfirth, 1890s
Author: William Morris
Text and illustrations by William Morris from this unfinished story. Bound by Douglas Cockerell, 1902. CAGM1991.1016.996.Y7
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, 1896
Press: Kelmscott Press
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by F S Ellis
The triumph of the Kelmscott Press, illustrated by Morris’s life-long friend, the artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones. CAGM1991.1016.996.G1
The Kelmscott Press sample specimen book
This book was used by the Press to decide which borders and initials should be used, and has been annotated by William Morris. CAGM1991.1016.996.Z3
The Shepherdes Calendar, 1896
Press: Kelmscott Press
Author: Edmund Spenser
Illustrated by the Birmingham-based Arts and Crafts designer and artist Arthur Gaskin. CAGM1991.1016.996.X54
The English Bible, vol. 1, 1903
Press: The Doves Press
Editor: Rev. Scrivener
Initials drawn by the calligrapher Edward Johnson. CAGM1991.1016.996.Y9
Men and Women, vol. 1, 1908
Author: Robert Browning
Press: Doves Press
Hand flourished by the calligrapher Edward Johnson. CAGM1991.1016.996.X2
Lo Inferno, 1902
Author: Dante Alighieri
Press: Ashendene Press
Illustrated by Robert Catterson-Smith and decorated by Graily Hewitt. Copy on vellum. Bound by Katharine Adams. CAGM1991.1016.996.T14
Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe, 1933
Press: Ashendene Press
Author: Longus
Ancient Greek novel translated into French and illustrated by Gwen Raverat. CAGM1991.1016.D27
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1884
Press: Chiswick Press
Author: Robert Browning
The illustrations and type in this book were produced by Robert Dunthorne, Emery Walker’s brother-in-law. CAGM1991.1016.996.D61
Modern Painters, after 1843
Author: John Ruskin
Pages personally annotated by John Ruskin. 1991.1016.996.N73
The Prayer Book of King Edward VII, 1903
Press: Essex House Press
The masterpiece of the Essex Press, with illustrations by the founder of the press, the Arts and Crafts designer C R Ashbee. CAGM1986.1140
Sketchbook by Ernest Gimson, 1887
Author: Ernest Gimson
One of several sketchbooks by Gimson in Cheltenham’s collection, this from one 1887 from his travels in Italy. CAGM1941.225
The Story of Cupid and Psyche
Press: Kelmscott Press
Illustrator: Edward Burne-Jones, engraved on wood by William Morris and others
This collection of images by Burne-Jones was for an edition of Cupid and Psyche that was never produced. They were bound by Douglas Cockerell in 1902. CAGM1991.1016.996.Y3