By William Morris; May Morris
London   Longmans Green and Company
9.5" by 6.5"
A limited edition illustrated set of the collected works of eminent literary and artistic figure, William Morris.
By William Morris; May Morris

1910-15 The Collected Works of William Morris

London   Longmans Green and Company
9.5" by 6.5"
A limited edition illustrated set of the collected works of eminent literary and artistic figure, William Morris.
£1,500.00
: 30kgs / : 922P37

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Description

Colour Plates, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

A limited edition of one thousand and fifty copies, of which one thousand were for sale. This set is numbered four hundred and ten.

In twenty-three volumes, lacking Volume I. 

A set of the collected works of William Morris.

Morris was an important poet, author, and textile designer of the Arts and Crafts movement in Victorian England.

This set contains;

Volume II, 'The Life and Death of Jason'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and one plate. 

Volumes III, IV, V, and VI, 'The Earthly Paradise'. Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume, as well as two plates to Volume IV, one folding plates and two plates to Volume V, and one plate to Volume VI.

Volume VII, 'The Story of Grettier the Strong, the Story of the Volsungs, and Niblungs'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and one folding map.

Volume VIII, 'Journals of Travel in Iceland 1871-1873'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding map, and three plates. 

Volume IX, 'Love is Enough, Poems By the Way'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. 

Volume X, 'Three Northern Love Stories, The Tales of Beowulf'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and one plate. 

Volume XI, 'The Aeneids of Virgil'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, one colour plate, and one plate.

Volume XII, 'The Story of Sigurd the Volsung, and the Fall of the Niblungs'. Illustrated with a frontispiece.

Volume XIII, 'The Odyssey of Homer Done into English Verse'. Illustrated with a frontispiece.

Volume XIV, 'The House of the Wolfings, The Story of the Glittering Plain'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and one plate.

Volume XV, 'The Roots of the Mountains'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and three plates.

Volume XVI, 'News From Nowhere, A Dream of John Ball, A King's Lesson'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and one plate. 

Volume XVII, 'The Wood Beyond the World, Child Christopher, Old French Romances'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and one plate.

Volumes XVIII and XIX, 'The Well at the World's End'. Both volume is illustrated with a frontispiece, in addition to one plate to Volume XVIII and two plates to Volume XIX. 

Volume XX, 'The Water of the Wondrous Isles'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates. 

Volume XXI, 'The Sundering Flood, Unfinished Romances'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and two plates.

Volume XXII, 'Hopes and Fears For Art, Lectures on Art and Industry'. Illustrated with one folding plate.

Volume XXIII, 'Signs of Change, Lectures on Socialism'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and one plate.

Volume XXIV, 'Scenes From the Fall of Troy and Other Poems and Fragments'. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and one plate.

Collated, all plates are present.

Condition

In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards. Externally, generally smart. Spines are age-toned. Bumping to the head and teal of the spines, lighter bumping to the extremities. Spine labels are a little rubbed with small chips. A few light marks to the boards and spines, a little heavier to the boards of Volume II and XXIII. Front hinge is starting but firm to Volumes III, IV, VIII, and XXIII. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Some pages are unopened to the top edge.

Very Good

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