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MORRIS, William. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Nibelungs. Hammersmith, 1898. 2o. Printed in Chaucer type (titles and headings in Troy type) in red and black, two full-page woodcut illustrations by W.H. Hooper after designs by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, both within full-page borders, each facing page with similar full border, numerous partial woodcut borders, 10-line and smaller initial capitals. Original limp vellum, spine gilt-lettered, silk ties, uncut (covers slightly bowing). LIMITED EDITION, one of 160 copies of an edition of 166. Cockerell 50 ("The two borders used in this book were almost the last that Mr. Morris desinged"); Peterson A50.
MORRIS, William. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Nibelungs. Hammersmith, 1898. 2o. Printed in Chaucer type (titles and headings in Troy type) in red and black, two full-page woodcut illustrations by W.H. Hooper after designs by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, both within full-page borders, each facing page with similar full border, numerous partial woodcut borders, 10-line and smaller initial capitals. Original limp vellum, spine gilt-lettered, silk ties, uncut (covers slightly bowing). LIMITED EDITION, one of 160 copies of an edition of 166. Cockerell 50 ("The two borders used in this book were almost the last that Mr. Morris desinged"); Peterson A50.

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MORRIS, William. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Nibelungs. Hammersmith, 1898. 2o. Printed in Chaucer type (titles and headings in Troy type) in red and black, two full-page woodcut illustrations by W.H. Hooper after designs by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, both within full-page borders, each facing page with similar full border, numerous partial woodcut borders, 10-line and smaller initial capitals. Original limp vellum, spine gilt-lettered, silk ties, uncut (covers slightly bowing). LIMITED EDITION, one of 160 copies of an edition of 166. Cockerell 50 ("The two borders used in this book were almost the last that Mr. Morris desinged"); Peterson A50.