TALWIN MORRIS (1865-1911) FOR GRESHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY AND BLACKIE AND SON
LARGE COLLECTION OF WORKS IN BINDINGS DESIGNED BY MORRIS
£1,071
Auction: Day Two | Lots 253 to 490 | Thursday 17th April from 10am
Description
including:
Archer, Thomas, & Amelie Hutchinson Stirling. Queen Victoria. London: Gresham Publishing Company, 1901. 4 volumes, 4to, original red cloth gilt with enamel-effect decoration in light and dark green, all edges gilt, with the rare dust jackets;
Davidson, H. C. The Book of the Home. London: Gresham Publishing Co., 1906. 6 volumes, large 8vo, original blue-green decorated cloth lettered in gilt;
Blackie and Son (publishers). Poems by H. W. Longfellow, 1908; Poems by E. B. Browning, 1907; In Memoriam by Alfred Tennyson, 1906. 3 works, Red Letter Library editions, 12mo, original decorative japon;
and approx. 120 others including: a uniform run of 40 Blackie and Son editions of novels with Morris's stylised kidney-and-flowers design gilt to spines and covers (8vo, original varicoloured cloth); editions of various poets, some from the Red Letter Poets series (small 8vo, original cloth or suede bindings); and similar