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Tennyson Maud, Kelmscott Pres. Copy

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signed presentation copy from William Morris to William Harcourt Hooper, [one of 500 copies], this the first issue without the cancel ff., printed in red and black, woodcut decorative title, borders and initials, bookplates of William Harcourt Hooper and Gerhard Jensen to front pastedown, original limp vellum with ties, spine gilt, board slip-case, gilt, [Peterson A17], a fine copy, 8vo, Kelmscott Press, 1893.

***The inscription reads "To, William Harcourt Hooper, from, William Morris, Nov: 2nd, 1893.". Hooper was a wood-engraver for the Kelmscott Press..

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