[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. MORRIS WILLIAM. The Defence of Guenevere 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. 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 inscribed by hand on the back."); Peterson A5.

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[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. MORRIS WILLIAM. The Defence of Guenevere 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. 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 inscribed by hand on the back."); Peterson A5.

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