Lot 360
VALLANCE, Aymer
Auction: 19 April 2005 at 14:00 BST
Description
The Art of William Morris … with reproductions from designs and fabrics printed in the colours of the originals, examples of the type and ornaments used at the Kelmscott Press and many other illustrations also a classified bibliography by Temple Scott. London: Printed at the Chiswick Press and published by George Bell & Sons, 1897
1st edition, folio, titlepage in red and black, mounted portrait photogravure as frontis., black and white illustrations in the text, black and white photographic plates and 40 {= 39, as plate 39 although listed as in colour is in black and white), original quarter buckram, linen boards, t.e.g., others uncut, corners slightly knocked, inner joints cracked
Note: No 174 of an edition of 220 copies.