The poem "The Last Ride" by Robert Browning seems to be known at either "so here then is the last ride" or "The last Ride together". Sources name the poetry collection "Men and Women" from 1855 as being where the poem was first published. Whether the poem is included in other poetry collections under a different title is unknown.

Elbert G. Hubbard (author, lecturer and entrepreneur) was deeply inspired by William Morrison after a long visit to the UK in 1890s and because of that he founded the Roycroft Printing Press in 1895 and The Roycroft Campus in East Aurora, New York, 1897. The Roycroft Campus was a part of the arts and crafts movement – a guild with an aim to produce books, furniture, leather and metal works of high quality by highly skilled craftsmen. Their aesthetic ideals were inspired by medieval Europe and Islamic art. The movement was a reaction to the mass-produced, "soulless", products factories produced in the Victorian era.

This time press publication of the single poem was printed and hand illumined at Roycrofts in 1900. The Royal Library's copy is No. 607 of 940, and was given to Edward VII presumably as a coronation present from a Mr. H. Ward Denys in 1902.