Mar 13, 2003 - Sale 1963

Sale 1963 - Lot 84

Price Realized: $ 431
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
MORRIS, WILLIAM. Catalogue of a Portion of the Valuable Collection of Manuscripts, Early Printed Books, &c. of the Late William Morris, of Kelmscott House, Hammersmith. 4to, modern cloth with morocco spine label, soiled original wrappers bound in. J. R. Abbey booklabel. London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, [1898]

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1215 lots. Prices and buyers entered in ink throughout. The sale consisted of the substantial portion not retained by the Manchester collector Richard Bennett after he purchased Morris's library in April 1897. De Ricci, pages 172-73. For the catalogue of Bennett's library, which J. Pierpont Morgan acquired in 1902, see lot 121.