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London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 8 5/16" × 5 5/8" × 1/2" (21.1 × 14.3 × 1.3 cm) . Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. First Printing. Edited by Frederick Startridge Ellis, after the edition printed by J.O. Halliwell, from the Cambridge manuscript, with some additions and variations from the THORNTON ROMANCES manuscript, in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral. Illustrated by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Printed by and sold by William Morris. 8vo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 350 [at fifteen shillings] paper copies (plus 8 [at four guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). 81 [1] pp. Printed in black and red throughout in the Chaucer type designed by Morris for… Read More

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine. 9 7/16" × 6 7/16" × 5/16" (24 × 16.4 × .8 cm) . First Printing. Edited by Frederick Startridge Ellis. Printed by and sold by William Morris. Medium 4to. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 300 [at ten shillings] paper copies (plus 10 [at two guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the Apple watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). [viii], 1 (title), [ii], 47, [iii] pp. Printed in black and red throughout in the Troy type, with the “Note" and "Colophon" in the Chaucer type, both types designed by Morris for his press. The two stories opening with title printed in red and 15-line elaborate foliate woodblock initial words designed by Morris for his WORKS OF CHAUCER and engraved by William Harcourt… Read More

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Good+. 8 5/16" × 5 11/16" × 1/2" (21.1 × 14.4 × 1.3 cm) . First State. Printed by William Morris, and published by Macmillan & Co., Bedford Street, Strand. 8vo. Bound in custom hardcover full leather with tooled design. One of 500 [at two guineas] paper copies (plus 5 [not for sale] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). All edges gilt. [iv], 69, [70, imprint] pp. Printed in black and red throughout with the Golden type designed by Morris for his press, with stanza numbers in red. Woodcut title within a floral border, facing page with full woodcut floral page-border (borders 10a and 10). Numerous other floral edge borders at stanza heads. Three 12-line woodcut initial and numerous 6-line initials all designed by Morris, engraved by William… Read More

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1901–1902. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Very Good+. 11 5/8" × 8 1/4" (29.5 × 21 cm) . First Thus. Printed by Chiswick Press. Large 4tos. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with blue linen spine and paper title label. One of 315 (of which 300 were for sale) copies. Printed on fine, hand-made, W M and floral watermarked paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon. A.o.V. 238; A.I.&W. 163; H&FfA./SoC 106; & O.o.H. 293; R.o.t.M. 284; G.t.S. 177; H.o.t.W. 161 & V.S. 113 pp. A full set of the William Morris series comprising eight large quarto books printed at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by Morris for his Kelmscott Press, 1901–1902. Chapter headings in red and shoulder notes in red in some volumes. Spare labels tipped in. Loose insert from the press in "Hopes and Fears for Art, Sings of Change," that reads: "It has been found advantageous to make one volume instead of two of "Hopes and Fears for Art"… Read More

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1898. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine. 8 1/4" × 5 5/8" × 7/16" (21 × 14.3 × 1.1 cm) . Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. First Printing. Illustrated by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Printed by William Morris and sold by the Trustees of the late William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. 8vo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 525 [at ten shillings] paper copies (plus 12 [at two guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). [iv] + 70 + [1, colophon] + [1, blank] pp. Printed in black and red throughout with the Golden type designed by Morris for his press, with 5 pages in the Troy and Chaucer types he designed. Head-title and shoulder-notes in red. The frontispiece, "Psyche… Read More

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Very Good+. 8 7/16" × 5 11/16" × 3/8" (21.4 × 14.4 × 1 cm) . First Printing. Edited by Frederick Startridge Ellis. Printed by William Morris. 8vo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and paper title label. One of 300 [at seven shillings and sixpence] paper copies (plus 12 [at three guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). [ii], 63, [ii] pp. Printed in black and red throughout with the Chaucer type designed by Morris for his press. Head-titles in red. Numerous three-quarter woodcut ornamental borders and 6-, 5-, and 3-line initials all designed by Morris, engraved by William Harcourt Hooper. "Thus ends the rhymed version of the Penitential Psalms, found in a Manuscript of… Read More

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 8 5/16" × 5 5/8" × 1/2" (21.1 × 14.3 × 1.3 cm) . Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. First Printing. Edited by Ellis, Frederick Startridge, after the edition printed by J. 0. Halliwell, from the Cambridge manuscript, with some additions and variations from the THORNTON ROMANCES manuscript, in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral. Illustrated by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Printed by and sold by William Morris. 8vo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 350 [at fifteen shillings] paper copies (plus 8 [at four guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). 81 [1] pp. Printed in black and red throughout in the Chaucer type designed by Morris for… Read More

London: Reeves and Turner, 1890. Superior Edition. hardcover. Very Good+. 8 1/8" × 6 7/8" (20.6 × 17.5 cm) . First Thus. Printed by Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham & Co. Small 4to. Bound in publisher's original hardcover Morris & Co. "Honeysuckle" printed floral chintz cloth-covered boards (designed by the author & produced by his firm), with gilt titles to spine. One of 250 copies. Printed on fine, hand-made, watermarked "J Whatman 1889" paper. Uncut, deckled edges. [i–iv], [1], 2–424 pp. Printed in Basle Roman type. "Morris bought 'the whole making' of the Whatman paper on which [this book] is printed, and used the balance for catalogues and prospectuses when he founded his own Kelmscott Press. This book so satisfied its author that he never reprinted the work at his Kelmscott Press. He declared it to be the best-looking book issued since the seventeenth century." [Colbeck II p.582]. Morris wrote to Georgie Burne-Jones on 16 November, 1889: "I am so pleased with my book—typography,… Read More

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Good+. 8 5/16" × 5 5/8" × 5/8" (21.1 × 14.3 × 1.6 cm) . Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. First Printing. Edited by Frederick Startridge Ellis, after the edition printed by J. 0. Halliwell, from the Cambridge manuscript, with some additions and variations from the THORNTON ROMANCES manuscript, in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral. Illustrated by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Printed by William Morris. 8vo. Bound in contemporary hardcover full leather with gilt tooled design. One of 350 [at fifteen shillings] paper copies (plus 8 [at four guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). [8], [4], 98, [10] pp. Printed in black and red throughout with the Chaucer type designed by Morris for his press. Two full-page ornamental borders (13a and 13), with a… Read More

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. Limited First Edition. Very Good. 9 7/16" × 6 7/16" × 5/16" (24 × 16.4 × .8 cm) . First Printing. Edited by Frederick Startridge Ellis. Printed by and sold by William Morris. Medium 4to. Bound in contemporary dark red leather. One of 300 [at ten shillings] paper copies (plus 10 [at two guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the Apple watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). [viii], 1 (title), [ii], 256, [ii]; [iv], 1 (title) [i], 238, 1 (colophon), [iii] pp. Printed in black and red throughout in the Troy type, with the "Note" and "Colophon" in the Chaucer type, both types designed by Morris for his press. The two stories opening with title printed in red and 15-line elaborate foliate woodblock initial words designed by Morris for his WORKS OF CHAUCER and engraved by William Harcourt Hooper. Dated Aug. 21, issued Nov. 2, 1896, the first copy… Read More

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1898. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 8 1/4" × 5 5/8" × 7/16" (21 × 14.3 × 1.1 cm) . Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. First Printing. Illustrated by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Printed by William Morris, and sold by the Trustees of the late William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. 8vo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 525 [at ten shillings] paper copies (plus 12 [at two guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). [iv], 70 pp., [1, colophon], [1, blank]. Printed in black and red throughout with the Golden type designed by Morris for his press, with 5 pages in the Troy and Chaucer types he designed. Head-title and shoulder-notes in red. The frontispiece, "Psyche Borne… Read More

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. Limited First Edition. limp vellum. Very Good. 8 1/4" × 5 7/8" × 1 1/4" (21 × 14.9 × 3.2 cm) . First Printing. Edited by Frederick Startridge Ellis. Printed by William Morris, and sold by Reeves & Turner. 8vo. Bound in publisher's original limp vellum by J. & J. Leighton, with silk ties supplied by Morris & Co., with gilt titles to spine. One of 250 [at two guineas] paper copies (plus 6 [at ten guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper, with yapped edges. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). [vii], 1 (foreword),1 (title), 3 (prologue), 286, 1 (colophon), [vii] pp. Printed in black and red throughout in the Golden type designed by Morris for his press. Border 1. Head-title and shoulder-notes in red. 10-line and numerous 6- and one 4-line woodblock initial capitals all designed by Morris, engraved by William… Read More

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 5 13/16" × 4 1/8" × 3/4" (14.8 × 10.5 × 1.9 cm) . First Printing. Printed by and sold by William Morris. 16mo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 525 [at seven shillings and sixpence] paper copies (plus 20 [at two guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the Perch watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon. [iv], 130 pp. Printed in black and red throughout in the Chaucer type designed by Morris for his press. Woodcut frontispiece title within a floral border, and facing page with full woodcut floral page-border (borders 11a and 11). Numerous 7, 6-, and 3-line woodblock initial capitals all designed by Morris, engraved by William Harcourt Hooper. Shoulder notes and some lines (including colophon) in red.A medieval French tale translated by Morris. THE TALE OF EMPEROR COUSTANS… Read More

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Very Good+. 8 7/16" × 5 11/16" × 3/8" (21.4 × 14.4 × 1 cm) . First Printing. Edited by Frederick Startridge Ellis. Printed by William Morris. 8vo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and paper title label. One of 300 [at seven shillings and sixpence] paper copies (plus 12 [at three guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). [ii], 63, [ii] pp. Printed in black and red throughout with the Chaucer type designed by Morris for his press. Head-titles in red. Numerous three-quarter woodcut ornamental borders and 6-, 5-, and 3-line initials all designed by Morris, engraved by William Harcourt Hooper. "Thus ends the rhymed version of the Penitential Psalms, found in a Manuscript of… Read More

First Printing. Printed by William Morris, and sold by George Allen. Small 4to. Bound in publisher's original limp vellum by J. & J. Leighton, with silk ties supplied by Morris & Co., with gilt titles to spine. One of 500 [at thirty shillings] paper copies (plus none on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor paper, with yapped edges. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1) twice (at front and back). [viii], 1 (title), 5 (preface), 127, 1 (appendix/colophon) [vi] pp.Printed with the Golden type designed by Morris for his press. Elaborate woodcut border on opening page; nine 10- and numerous 6-line woodcut initials all designed by Morris and engraved by William Harcourt Hooper, along with 19 architectural figures. A handsome printing of the chapter from Ruskin's THE STONES OF VENICE, with a 5-page preface by Morris dated February 15. issued March 22, l892.John Ruskin (1819–1900) had a strong influence on William Morris and the arts… Read More