![Item #46 The Earthly Paradise [12 volumes]. William Morris](/pictures/thumb/46.jpg?v=1600532645)
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905. Bound in original blue paper boards with blue cloth spines, lettered in black to the front boards and numbered in red to the spine. Produced almost a decade after Morris's death in a style reminiscent to that of Kelmscott. 12 volumes. 8vo.
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: 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: Edward Moxon, 1857. First illustrated edition with medallion frontispiece. The so-called “Moxon Tennyson” which features over 50 woodcut illustrations by Rossetti, Millais, Hunt, and other Pre-Raphaelites. Moxon sought to publish a successful, artistic book for the Christmas gift book market but ultimately ended up with something that.....
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.....
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1861. First Edition. First Edition of Rossetti’s first regularly published book, one of around 600 copies (and given institutional holdings, not likely too many remaining in private hands). 8vo. xxxvi, 464pp., bound without half-title or errata. Fennell 19; Fredeman 23.3; W.M. Rossetti 9; NCBEL.....
Hannover [und Leipzig]: Hahn’sche Buchhandlung, 1891[,] 1892[, and] 1898. Sydney C. Cockerell’s copy, with his signature and abbreviated address on the front free endpaper in each volume. Cockerell was a friend of Ruskin and Morris, and notably served as secretary to the Kelmscott Press and as Morris’s literary executor...
