May 17, 2007 - Sale 2114

Sale 2114 - Lot 143

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(KELMSCOTT PRESS.) Morris, William. The Wood Beyond the World. Printed in red and black Chaucer type. Wood-engraved frontispiece by W. Spielmeyer after a design by Sir Edward Burne-Jones; decorative woodcut borders and initials. 8vo, original vellum, lettered in gilt along spine, lacking green silk ties, small star-shaped sticker at bottom of spine, partly worn off and revealing lighter vellum beneath. Ex-collection U.S. diplomat and businessman Henry Morgenthau, with his book label. one of 350 copies. Peterson A27. (Hammersmith), 1894