(Association Copy). Shakespeare's Ovid: Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses. At the De La More Press, 1904; printed by Alexander Mooring.  Cloth spine over pale blue paper covered boards; quarto; un trimmed, board edge worn, corners bumped.  “Of this Edition of Shakespeare's Ovid 350 Copies were printed on Hand-made paper…copy no. 240.”  

Presentation inscription by the King’s Library Series editor and Shakespeare scholar, Israel Gollancz, to Scottish literary scholar W.P.Ker.  Gollancz was the general editor of the Temple Shakespeare, the Temple Classics, the King's Library, the King's Novels, the Medieval Library, etc.  The two were enormously influential to literary scholarship during the early 20th Century, as attested to by the prizes awarded in their honor:The British Academy awards the Sir Israel Gollancz prize for Early English Studies and the W. P. Ker Memorial Lecture is held at Glasgow University.   Curiously, both Ker and Gollancz are mentioned in an essay about Tolkien’s Beowulf lecture— 

“The two men belonged to different generations: Gollancz was born in 1863; Tolkien in 1892. The up-and-coming younger man who gave the memorial lecture in 1936 was also a rival seeking to displace a patriarchal older figure who was becoming unfashionable in the 1930s. The obvious, and explicit, target for Tolkien's criticisms in the lecture was another of the previous generation, the distinguished Scottish literary scholar, W. P. Ker (1855–1923), mentioned repeatedly in the lecture, even while Tolkien stressed that he honored him.”

Spencer, H. L. "The Mystical Philology of J.R.R. Tolkien and Sir Israel Gollancz: Monsters and Critics." Tolkien Studies, vol. 14, 2017, p. 9-32. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/tks.2017.0004.

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