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: Bell & Daldy, 1867. First Edition. First edition. With the ownership signature of Alfred Baldwin, notably the father of PM Stanley Baldwin, and on occasion in written correspondence with Morris. More notable as the brother-in-law of Georgiana Burne-Jones. His wife, Louisa, along with Jane Morris, and her sisters.....
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: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1893. First Edition. First Edition. Large paper issue which is number 257 of 275 on hand-made paper. None of Scott, Walsdorf, or Buxton Forman indicate whether the large copy or trade take precedence, but nevertheless, the large paper issue is more desirable. Buxton Forman.....
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.....
London: Macmillan & Co., 1882. First Edition. First edition of the collection of lectures by important individuals connected with the Society for the Protection of Ancient Monuments. William Morris was the Society's founder, primary mover, and who contributed to this work. Contents are R.S. Poole on "The.....