MORRIS, WILLIAM, translator. The Aeneids of Virgil. London: Ellis and White 1876. 8vo, original blue cloth, paper label on spine, uncut, inch tear at top of front outer joint, half-morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY TO THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON, inscribed by Morris (in ink) in three places: (1) on the front free endpaper, "Theodore Walter Watts [later Watts-Dunton] With William Morris' Kindest regards"; (2) on the half-title, "I have written it on the blank page by mistake, William Morris"; and finally (3) on the title-page, "Theodore Walter Watts With William Morris' Kindest regards." (Maxwell)

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MORRIS, WILLIAM, translator. The Aeneids of Virgil. London: Ellis and White 1876. 8vo, original blue cloth, paper label on spine, uncut, inch tear at top of front outer joint, half-morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY TO THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON, inscribed by Morris (in ink) in three places: (1) on the front free endpaper, "Theodore Walter Watts [later Watts-Dunton] With William Morris' Kindest regards"; (2) on the half-title, "I have written it on the blank page by mistake, William Morris"; and finally (3) on the title-page, "Theodore Walter Watts With William Morris' Kindest regards." (Maxwell)