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MORRIS, William. The Story of the Glittering Plain which has been also called the Land of Living Men or the Acre of the Undying. Hammersmith, 1894. Large 4o. Printed in Troy type (with list of chapters in Chaucer type) in black and red, woodcut title-page, facing page with full woodcut page-border, 23 woodcuts (of various sizes, the largest measuring 133 x 103 mm.) by A. Leverett after Walter Crane, each with decorative woodcut border, numerous partial woodcut borders and 8-line and smaller woodcut initials. Original limp vellum, spine gilt-lettered, silk ties, uncut (covers bowing). LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 copies of an edition of 257. Cockerell 22 ("Neither the borders in this book nor six out of the seven frames round the illustrations appear in any other book. The seventh is used round the second picture in Love is Enough"); Peterson A22.
MORRIS, William. The Story of the Glittering Plain which has been also called the Land of Living Men or the Acre of the Undying. Hammersmith, 1894. Large 4o. Printed in Troy type (with list of chapters in Chaucer type) in black and red, woodcut title-page, facing page with full woodcut page-border, 23 woodcuts (of various sizes, the largest measuring 133 x 103 mm.) by A. Leverett after Walter Crane, each with decorative woodcut border, numerous partial woodcut borders and 8-line and smaller woodcut initials. Original limp vellum, spine gilt-lettered, silk ties, uncut (covers bowing). LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 copies of an edition of 257. Cockerell 22 ("Neither the borders in this book nor six out of the seven frames round the illustrations appear in any other book. The seventh is used round the second picture in Love is Enough"); Peterson A22.

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MORRIS, William. The Story of the Glittering Plain which has been also called the Land of Living Men or the Acre of the Undying. Hammersmith, 1894. Large 4o. Printed in Troy type (with list of chapters in Chaucer type) in black and red, woodcut title-page, facing page with full woodcut page-border, 23 woodcuts (of various sizes, the largest measuring 133 x 103 mm.) by A. Leverett after Walter Crane, each with decorative woodcut border, numerous partial woodcut borders and 8-line and smaller woodcut initials. Original limp vellum, spine gilt-lettered, silk ties, uncut (covers bowing). LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 copies of an edition of 257. Cockerell 22 ("Neither the borders in this book nor six out of the seven frames round the illustrations appear in any other book. The seventh is used round the second picture in Love is Enough"); Peterson A22.