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[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. VORAGINE, Jacobus de (?1230-?1298). The Golden Legend. Translated by William Caxton. Edited by F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1892.
3 volumes, 4o (295 x 210 mm). Instructions to the binder slip tipped to free endpaper in volume one. Golden type. 6- and 10-line woodcut initials, woodcut title-page and facing page with full woodcut page-border, 2 full-page woodcuts designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. (Occasional insignificant browning at the sheet edges). Original cloth-backed boards, paper spine labels, uncut (labels worn and chipped, that to the first volume largely perished, spines somewhat frayed, some soiling to boards). Provenance: Lionel H. Pries (bookplate).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 copies on paper, of what was to have been Morris' first book at the Kelmscott Press, using Morris' favorite Golden type (from which it got its name). The great amount of work delayed publication and several smaller works appeared first. Cockerell 7; Peterson A7. (3)
3 volumes, 4
LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 copies on paper, of what was to have been Morris' first book at the Kelmscott Press, using Morris' favorite Golden type (from which it got its name). The great amount of work delayed publication and several smaller works appeared first. Cockerell 7; Peterson A7. (3)