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Private Press, Books & Art
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Bloomsbury House
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Kelmscott Press.- Morris (William) The Story of the Glittering Plain..., one of 200 copies, printed in red and black in Troy and Chaucer types, wood-engraved title, borders and initials designed by Morris and wood-engraved illustrations by Walter Crane, original limp vellum with ties, uncut, very slightly soiled with small scratch to spine, lacking some ties, [Peterson A22], 4to, Kelmscott Press, 1894.***The only title printed twice at Kelmscott. It was the first title issued, in May 1891, and Morris had been so impatient to publish that he did not wait for Crane's illustrations and issued it with merely his own ornaments and initials, hence this later publication.. View Bloomsbury Auctions next auction.Similar lots up for auction |
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