her Poems_, which received but little notice at the
time; but _The Life and Death of Jason_, published in 1867, attracted
general attention, and his reputation was further greatly increased by
_The Earthly Paradise_, a poem in four volumes, which appeared in
1868-70. From that period until the time of his death Mr. Morris
published a considerable number of other works, and, in collaboration
with Mr. Eirikr Magnusson, some translations from the Icelandic. In
1863, in conjunction with D.G. Rossetti, E. Burne-Jones, and Ford Madox
Brown, he established a factory for the production of artistic glass,
tiles, wall-paper, etc., which has greatly contributed to the
improvement of household decoration in England. A large number of the
designs were the work of Mr. Morris himself, his leisure hours being
devoted to literature, and it has been said of him 'that his poems were
by Morris the wall-paper maker, and his wall-papers by Morris the poet.'

In 1891 Morris established a printing-press near his residence,
Kelmscott House, on the Upper Mall, Hammersmith, from which he issued a
series of beautiful and sumptuous reprints, principally of old books,
with ornamentations by himself, and illustrations chiefly by Sir E.
Burne-Jones. Of these reprints, which at the present time fetch large
prices, that of _Chaucer's Poems_ is considered the finest. In 1898 the
trustees of Mr. Morris published 'A Note on his aims in founding the
Kelmscott Press. Together with a short description of the Press by C.S.
Cockerell, and an annotated list of the books printed thereat.' The list
gives fifty-three works in sixty-three volumes and nine leaflets. This
was the last book printed at the Kelmscott Press. It was finished at No.
14 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, on the 4th of March 1898. In it the aims of
Morris in founding the Press are given in his own words. 'I began
printing books,' he writes, 'with the hope of producing some which would
have a definite claim to beauty, while at the same time they should be
easy to read, and should not dazzle the eye, or trouble the intellect of
the reader by eccentricity of form in the letters.' Mr. Morris, who died
at Kelmscott House on the 3rd of October 1896, collected a fine and
extensive library, which passed into the hands of a Manchester collector
for, it is said, the sum of twenty thousand pounds. The purchaser, after
selecting the books he required--about half of the MSS. and one-third of
the printed books--sent