Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1903
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/138
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    384 385 386 387}! 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 30 OCTAVO Morris (Lewis) Poetical Works : Songs of Two Worlds, Epic of Hades, Gwen, the Ode of Life, Songs Unsung; 4 vol. olive morocco extra, uncut, t. & g. 1884 1894 ; FIRST EDITION, original cloth—The Blessed Damozel, as first written by Dante G. Rossetti, and first published in the “Germ,” in 1850, borders, 1898—Smith (Horace) Poetical Works, portrait, half calf, 1851 ; and another (5) Morris (William) Sir Galahad: a Christmas Mystery, folded, unbound 1858 *,* Mr. Morris’s jirst publication, it was afterwards included in the ‘‘ Defence of Guenevere.” Morris (W.) The Earthly Paradise: a Poem, parts I, III, and IV, FIRST EDITION, original cloth, uncut F. S. Ellis, 1868-70 Morris (W.) Wake, London Lads! A Question ; the Paris Com- mune, March 18, 1871 ; Help for the Miners, November, 1893 ; jour leaflets—All for the Cause, words by Wm. Morris, music by E. B. Bax . (5) Morris (W.) The Two Sides of the River, Hapless Love, and the Foray of Aristomenes, FIRST EDITION [not printed for sale] one of the rarest of Mr. Morris’s works, original wrapper, uncut 1876 Morris (W.) The Socialist Platform, No. 2, 4, and 6, 1886-88— Chants for Socialists, 1885— Monopoly, 1893—Principles of Socialism, 1884 Morris (W.) The Pilgrims of Hope: a Poem, in thirteen Books, FIRST EDITION, original wrapper 1886 Morris (W.) The Tables Turned: or Nupkins Awakened, 1887 —The God of the Poor, n. d.—The Reward of Labour, n. d.— Under an Elm-Tree, 1891 (4) Morris (W.) The Aims of Art, 1887—-Labour and Pleasure versus Labour and Sorrow, an Address, 1880—The Socialist Ideal of Art, 1891 ; and other pamphlets by Morris (6) Morris (W.) Letters on Socialism, with facsemales, PRINTED UPON VELLUM, impression limited to a few copies for private circulation only, the leaves folded 1894 Morris (W.) The Well at the World’s End, 2 vol. original boards, uncut Chiswick Press, 1896 Napier (G. G.) Homes and Haunts of Alfred Lord Tennyson, portrait and illustrations, JAPANESE VELLUM PAPER, limited issue, buckram, uncut, t. e. g. 1892—Walter (J. C.) In Tenny- son Land, plates, uncut, 1890 (2) Nettleship (J. T.) Robert Browning : Essays and Thoughts, FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER, one of 75 numbered and signed copies, original cloth, uncut, t. €. g. 1890 New (The) Amphion: the Book of the Edinburgh University Union Fancy Fair (contains contributions by Robert Brown- ing, Andrew Lang, R. Garnett, R. L. Stevenson, and others), illustrations, parchment gilt, r. e. Edin. 1886—Speculum Univer- sitatis: Alma Mater’s Mirror (containing contributions by R. L. Stevenson, A. Lang, Austin Dobson, Edmund Gosse, etc.)
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