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(KELMSCOTT PRESS.) Voragine, Jacobus de. The Golden Legend of Master William Caxton. 3 volumes. 2 large wood-engraved illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones; typography, woodcut borders, printer's mark and initials by William Morris. Large 4to, each volume rebound in art binding by Andrée M. Clarke in a different style, using colored calf onlays and gilt stamping; custom 1/2 brown morocco clamshell boxes with gilt-stamped green morocco labels; scattered light usual foxing; bookplate and binding note by Morris laid into Volume 1. Hammersmith, 1892
one of 500 unnumbered sets. "This was to have been the first book from the press, but unforeseen difficulties with the size of the first stock of paper led to the delay in production"--Walsdorf 7; Peterson A7; Franklin page 215; Tomkinkson 7. The binder, Andrée M. Clarke, was born in the Tonkin region of French Indochina. She lived in France and in New York City where she studied French relieure under master bookbinders Catherine Stanescu and Deborah Evetts.
