Nov 10, 2009 - Sale 2195

Sale 2195 - Lot 37

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(BIRD & BULL PRESS.) Morris, Henry. Guilford & Green I: A Visit to Hayle Mill. Illustrated. 8vo, full tan calf with green spine label by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; calf-edged slipcase. North Hills, 1970

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one of only two copies specially bound by morris for himself, so written, initialed, and dated on the colophon, from a total edition of 210. The first part of the book describes a visit made by Henry Morris to J. Barcham Green, the famous hand papermaking firm in England. It also gives a history of the firm and reproduces correspondence between William Morris and Joseph Batchelor regarding the production of paper.