(KELMSCOTT PRESS) Morris William The Story of the Glittering

Sale 2269 - Lot 150

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FIRST BOOK OF THE PRESS (KELMSCOTT PRESS.) Morris, William. The Story of the Glittering Plain. Decorative woodcut border and initials designed and engraved by W.H. Hooper. Small 4to, original stiff vellum with leather ties, severed at rear, gilt-lettered spine; some leaves tanned at margins; small offset on front blank recto from earlier bookplate. Norman J. Sondheim bookplate with residual offsetting to front free endpaper; Hartshorne armorial bookplate. (Hammersmith, 1891)

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one of 200 copies and the first edition of the first book printed at the kelmscott press. The only title issued twice - the second version appeared in 1894 with woodcuts after designs by Walter Crane that Morris deemed inferior. William Morris and the Art of the Book, p. 129; Peterson A1.