Nov 24, 2015 - Sale 2400

Sale 2400 - Lot 269

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
(VILLAGE PRESS.) Morris, William. The Hollow Land. Printed in red and black Village type by Fredric and Bertha Goudy. Wood-engraved frontispiece by Walter J. Enright within elaborate woodcut border also used on adjacent title page, one text illustration after B. J. O. Nordfeldt, double border, title and initial by Fredric Goudy. Small 4to, rebound in crimson and green morocco with decorative gilt-stamped borders with red berry onlays on covers, by Andrée M. Clarke, signed at rear; custom 1/4 green morocco gilt and red cloth clamshell box, also by Clarke, spine faded. one of 220 unnumbered copies. (Hingham, 1905)

Additional Details

with--Morris, William. A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson. Frontispiece illustration. Small 8vo, bound in 3/4 green morocco with gilt-stamped leaf design and spine lettering by female bookbinder Andrée M. Clarke; custom linen clamshell box. One of 250 copies; a reprint of the 1892 Kelmscott Press edition. London: Longman's, 1903.