The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems

London: Bell and Daldy, 1858. First edition, first printing. 12mo. viii, 248 pp. Original dark brown cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt, upper front joint cloth split, rear joint very lightly worn; all edges trimmed; light foxing to prelims; book-plate of English surveyor George Goyder on front paste-down.

Morris' first book. Only 500 copies were printed, and only 250 were bound.

George Goyder (1826-1898) was an English surveyor in the Colony of South Australia in the latter half of the nineteenth-century. He is remembered for devising the Gordon's Line, an east-west line across South Australia that designates arable and non-arable land based on annual rainfall.