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1. [KELMSCOTT PRESS] Morris, William.
Biblia Innocentium: Being the Story of God's Chosen People Before The Coming Of Our Lord Jesus Christ Upon Earth, Written Anew For Children [Mackail, John William].
Upper Mall,Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1892. [2], viii, 249, [1] pp. 21x14.5 cm. Woodcut border to first leaf of text; woodcut initial letters throughout. One of 200 copies on Flower paper, printed in Golden type. Spectacular binding by Zaehnsdorf, with their gilt name stamp on front doublure (dated 1900) and their small pictorial stamp on rear endleaf. Bookplate of M.C.D. Borden on verso of front endleaf and of George Edward Dimock on recto of rear endleaf. The first octavo volume issued by the press. The author a sometime fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. PETERSON A9. Finely bound in full tan morocco, elaborate acanthus leaf pattern stamped in brown, with borders of gilt and brown rules, matching full morocco doublures with acanthus leaf devices at corners, ruled borders, morocco endleaves with ruled borders, untrimmed. Aeg. $12,500.00
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2. [KELMSCOTT PRESS] Morris, William.
Child Christopher And Goldilind The Fair.
Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895. 256 and 239 pages. 15 x 11 cm, printed in Chaucer type, in black and red, and is uniform in size with the romances from the French. Wood engraved title, borders and initials designed by Morris. Limited edition, one of 600 copies. FORMAN pp. 182-183, and in his introduction notes [this title] "Morris got back to a thoroughly human story racy of British earth in the old days, - the story admirably conceived and laid-out and the characters drawn with the consistency and vigour to be expected from the liberal hand......" SCOTT, p102. PETERSON. A35. "When you come to look at it, and see that you get a book like this.........it would be impossible to refuse buying them. I love my books, and I love making them, and I think these little octavos quite the most charming things issued from my press. [Morris in "The Ideal Book]. Decorated boards, quarter stitched vellum. Teg. Fine. Two vols. $4,250.00
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3. [KELMSCOTT PRESS] Morris, William.
The Defence Of Guenevere And Other Poems.
Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1892. 170 pages. 20 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 300 printed in red and black in Golden type on hand-made paper, and complete with three terminal blanks. Full woodcut page border, numerous 10-line and smaller woodcut initials. The only Kelmscott Press book with a hand lettered title calligraphic title executed by F.S. Ellis, and the first book bound in limp vellum. PETERSON A3 & A5. Our copy in blindstamped brown morocco, decorated endpapers, raised bands, spine labels printed in gilt. Binding signed "HCF 1916." Full brown morocco front and back covers decorated in blind. Teg. Near fine. $4,500.00
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4. [KELMSCOTT PRESS] Morris, William.
Laudes Beatae Mariae Virginis.
Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. 34 pages. 29 x 21.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 250 of a total edition of 260 printed in Troy type. The first Kelmscott Press printed in three colors -- black, red and blue and with decorative borders and initials. Poems herein taken from a Psalter written by an English scribe, most likely in one of the Midland counties, early in the 13th century. "Morris purchased an early thirteenth-century English Psalter, which he called the Nottingham Psalter. One section of the Psalter, A Laudes Beatae Mariae Virginis, which Morris printed, was attributed to Stephen Langton or to John Peckham." PETERSON A42. Orig. cloth backed boards. Fine. $3,900.00
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5. [KELMSCOTT PRESS] Morris, William.
The Life Of Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal Archbishop of York Written by George Cavendish.
Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. 287 pages. 20.8 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 250 printed in red and black in Golden type. Woodcut ornaments and initials designed by William Morris. Transcribed after the autograph manuscript of the author, now in the British Museum. PETERSON A14. Slight fade to gilt of "Life" on spine title. Interior contents very fresh and clean. Orig. limp vellum, yapp edges and cloth ties. Near fine. $6,450.00
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6. [KELMSCOTT PRESS] Morris, William.
The Love-Lyrics & Songs Of Proteus By Wilfrid Scawen Blunt With Love-Sonnets Of Proteus By The Same Author Now Reprinted In Their Full Text With Many Sonnets Omitted From The Earlier Editions.
Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1892. 251 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 300 copies, printed in red and black in Golden Type. There is a separate title to each of the four parts into which the poems are divided. William Morris border on page one. The only Kelmscott book with initials in red. Morris wrote to Jenny Morris, "'...it looks very gay & pretty with its red letters, but I think I prefer mine in style of printing'". Two woodcut borders, numerous woodcut initials, printer's device on colophon page. Gilt spine lettering bright, partly unopened. PETERSON 3. SCOTT pp.83-84. Orig. limp vellum, yapp edges and cloth ties. Fine. $4,500.00
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7. [KELMSCOTT PRESS] Morris, William.
Maud. A Monodrama [Tennyson, Alfred, Lord].
Hammersmith: Kelmscott, 1893. 69 pages. 25.1 x 14 cm. Printed in red and black, title and first leaf with full woodcut borders, woodcut initials and decorations designed by William Morris. Limited Edition, one of 500 copies of a total edition of 505. Peterson A17. Title and first leaf with decorative woodcut borders, decorative woodcut initials, decorations and devices, stanza numbers printed in red. Following the discovery of some typographical errors "four cancellans leaves were printed...and were perhaps inserted in at least a few copies of Maud." (see: Peterson). Original limp vellum, yapp edges, spine lettered in gilt, silk ties. Fine in near fine original green card slipcase with front cover gilt lettering. Full vellum. $4,850.00
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8. [KELMSCOTT PRESS] Morris, William.
Poems Chosen Out Of The Works Of Robert Herrick.
Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895. 295 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Printed in red and black, wood-engraved title and ornaments. Limited edition, one of 250 copies printed on Flower paper (of a total of 258). According to Peterson, this work was very popular, with only four copies unsold two days prior to publication. As Peterson notes, Morris was not particularly enthusiastic over Herrick and only remarked "I like him better than I though I should: I daresay we shall make a pretty book of it". PETERSON. A37. Contemporary tan morocco in the Arts and Crafts style, spine in six compartments, five raised bands, gilt-lettered in one, marbled endpapers. Teg. Fine. $5,750.00
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9. [KELMSCOTT PRESS] Morris, William.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel [Hand & Soul].
Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott , 1895. 56 pages. 14.5 x 11 cm. Printed in Golden type in black and red. Wood-cut title page. This was the only book Morris printed for the American public, and the only Kelmscott book to bear the name of an American publisher. The English and American copies have a slightly different colophon. The shoulder-notes were added by Morris. Way became a personal disciple of Morris, and later visited England to see him at Kelmscott House, where he was told how Morris "wanted to make some nice books, but had no thought of developing such a business as has come to the Press." Way then described their arrangement for the joint book, which was to be Rosetti's "Hand and Soul." SPARLING 36. SCOTT p103. Fresh, crisp copy. Book plate of Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928) poet, author and critic. Limited edition one of 525 copies of a total edition of 546 (311 copies for the American, 235 copies for the English market). This copy sold by Way and Williams, Chicago. PETERSON. A36. Stiff vellum, beveled edges. Fine. $4,600.00
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10. [KELMSCOTT PRESS] Morris, William.
Syr Ysumbrace.
Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897. 41 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Frontispiece, a woodcut designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Uniform with Sire Degravaunt, from the same source: an ancient metrical romance, reprinted from the Thornton MS, in the library of Lincoln Cathedral is printed in Chaucer type, in black and red. The third in series from the "Thornton Romances." Edited by F.S. Ellis after the edition printed by J.O. Halliwell. Limited edition, one of 350. PETERSON A48. SCOTT p.110. Spine labels upside down. Full brown morocco, marbled endpapers. Near Fine. $3,595.00
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11. [KELMSCOTT PRESS] Morris, William.
The Tale Of the Emperor Coustans And Of Over Sea.
Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. 130 pages. 16mo, 15 x 11 cm, printed in Chaucer type, in black and red, and is uniform in size with the romances from the French -- in this instance two tales. Limited edition, one of 525 copies. The first of these stories, which was the source of "The Man Born To Be King" in THE EARTHLY PARADISE was announced as in preparation in the list of March 31, 1894. FORMAN (153) notes "Page 39 is a half-title" for the start to the second title, THE HISTORY OF OVER SEA. SCOTT, p.98. Armorial bookplate George Allison Armour. Text bright and clean, tiny nick at backstrip head. Original holland-backed boards. Near fine. $3,595.00
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