A collection of titles by or relating to William Morris, inc...

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£700

A collection of titles by or relating to William Morris, including William Morris designed Kelmscott Press [4]pp booklet loosely inserted titled 'When Adam Delved and Eve Span...', Kelmscott Press, 1894, one of 250 copies, wood engraved frontis by Burne-Jones, and extracts from Tennyson and Ruskin, wood-engraved initials, borders & press device designed by William Morris, plus 3 titles printed at The Chiswick Press for Longmans & Co, all first editions, all original cloth backed printed paper covered boards: 'Some Hints on Pattern Designing', 1899, with publisher's printed slip loosely inserted, 'Art and the Beauty of the Earth', 1898, 'An Address Delivered at the Distribution of Prizes to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb 21, 1894', 1898, plus William Morris: 'The Defence of Guenevere', Shakespeare Head Press for Basil Blackwell, 1925, original patterned paper wraps, 'Poems by the Way', London, Reeves & Turner, 1891, 1st edition, orig. cloth gilt, Duncan Robinson: 'William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and the Kelmscott Chaucer', L, Gordon Fraser, 1982, 1st edition, b/w ills. throughout, folio, original quarter cloth, glassine dust wrapper, 'The Typographical Adventure of William Morris', Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1957, foreword by Sydney Cockerell, oblong 4to, original wraps, plus 2 others (10)