Gertha's Lovers
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1902. First Edition thus. Scarce. Partially uncut. Original stiff printed Japan vellum wraps with large red initial on front cover. Limited Edition of only 425 copies.
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1902. First Edition thus. Scarce. Partially uncut. Original stiff printed Japan vellum wraps with large red initial on front cover. Limited Edition of only 425 copies.
London: Reeves and Turner, 1889. First Edition. Inscribed presentation copy from Morris to Ford Madox Brown, dated December 1888. An exceptional Pre-Raphaelite association. Brown was a British painter closely aligned with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an “old and intimate” friend of Morris, and a founding partner of Morris’s design company.....
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1896. First trade edition. First Trade Edition (i.e. not the Kelmscott edition). “[O]ne of the most complex and beautiful fantasy quests ever written.” Mathews, Fantasy, the Liberation of Imagination (2002, pg. 44). “A romance of old England, recount[ing] the travels of Ralph and his three.....