Kelmscott Press - Morris, William
£800
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 3 September 2008 at 12:00 BST
Description
The wood beyond the world. Kelmscott Press, 1894. 8vo, limited to 358 copies of which this is one of 300 on paper, copy inscribed by Sydney Carlyle Cockerell during the month of publication ("To | Olive J. Cockerell | from S.C.C. Octr. 1894.") on preliminary blank, printed in red and black, wood-engraved frontispiece after Edward Burne-Jones, ornamental woodcut borders and initials, original limp vellum, three silk ties [of four], some spotting and browning, binding soiled, crease to spine, lacking one silk tie