A Note by William Morris etc. was the last book to have been printed at the Kelmscott Press before its closure and the original illustration is set in one of the open-work vine borders which Morris designed for his K.P. books.
The wood-engraved illustration, ‘Psyche borne off by Zephyrus’, designed by Burne-Jones and cut by Morris, was one of those originally made for the projected illustrated edition of Morris’s The Earthly Paradise 1865-68. After Morris’s death in October 1896, an attempt was made to print the Story of Cupid and Psyche from The Earthly Paradise together with the original wood engravings made in 1865-68; this edition, to be printed at the Kelmscott Press, was to have been published by Bernard Quaritch, and a few trial pages were pulled in January 1897. [see K774 and K775] at the closure of the Kelmscott Press in 1898, the printing was to have been carried out by the Chiswick Press, but following the death of Burne-Jones, who was to have revised some of the illustrations for this edition, in June 1898, the edition was abandoned.
525 copies were printed on paper at 10s, 12 and on vellum at 2 guineas.
