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Rare Books

Rare Book Division
Firestone Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-258-3184
Curator of Rare Books
609-258-9942

The Library has a small collection in the Graphic Arts department of books issued at the Kelmscott Press. Moreover, the Library holds several copies of Morris's masterpiece,  the Kelmscott Chaucer  For details see: "Kelmscott Chaucer" in the Princeton University Library Chronicle XIII, 4 (Summer, 1952) pp. 215-216 [full text].   In 2013, Robert Milevski completed a study of the Library's copies. See this announcement: Here beginneth the tales: Copies of the Kelmscott PressChaucer at Princeton