[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. MORRIS, WILLIAM. The Defence of Guenevre and Other Poems. Hammersmith, 1892. Printed in Golden type in black and red, two pages of text with full woodcut page-borders, numerous 10-line and small initial capitals. Small 4to, original limp vellum, spine hand-lettered in ink "Guenevere", silk ties, uncut, light soiling. LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 copies of an edition of 310. Cockerell 5 ("It was the first book bound in limp vellum and the only one of which the title was insrcibed by hand on the back."); Peterson A5 -- [MORRIS, WILLIAM]. An autographed letter signed by William Morris. London, 1881. 8vo, one page. (5)

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[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. MORRIS, WILLIAM. The Defence of Guenevre and Other Poems. Hammersmith, 1892. Printed in Golden type in black and red, two pages of text with full woodcut page-borders, numerous 10-line and small initial capitals. Small 4to, original limp vellum, spine hand-lettered in ink "Guenevere", silk ties, uncut, light soiling. LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 copies of an edition of 310. Cockerell 5 ("It was the first book bound in limp vellum and the only one of which the title was insrcibed by hand on the back."); Peterson A5 -- [MORRIS, WILLIAM]. An autographed letter signed by William Morris. London, 1881. 8vo, one page. (5)

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