Accession number
PML 127290
Creator
Morris, William, 1834-1896.
Published
London : Reeves and Turner, 1889.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1992.
Notes
1st edition.
"Chiswick Press--Charles Whittingham and Co."--Colophon.
One of 100 large-paper copies (perhaps one of the 11 copies not for sale).
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.
Manuscript of this work is housed in MA Dept. (MA 313)
"Chiswick Press--Charles Whittingham and Co."--Colophon.
One of 100 large-paper copies (perhaps one of the 11 copies not for sale).
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.
Manuscript of this work is housed in MA Dept. (MA 313)
Description
[6], 199 p. ; 28 cm.
Provenance
William Morris (posthumous Kelmscott House booklabel), probably May Morris, John A. Saks (bookplate), John Yamulla.
Binding
Bound in orange silk velvet brocade with blue and white highlights in a pomegranate pattern, interwoven with gold thread (fragment of tapestry woven at Morris and Co. from Morris's design "Granada". Cf. Parry & Vallance); in red cloth slipcase.
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