Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair

Child Christopher, a king's son raised in ignorance of it, and Goldilind, a queen kept prisoner in her own castle by the man who governs for her — they meet in a wood, as outlaws. Morris took the plot from the medieval romance of Havelok the Dane and rewrote it in his late deliberate English; his wallpapers are still in production, and this romance, printed at his own Kelmscott Press, was made to be beautiful as an object first. Fifty-eight plates of river light and English landscape, from Constable and Turner to Whistler, run through this tale of a king's son and a captive queen.