[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. The Order of Chivalry. Translated from the French by William Caxton. Edited by F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1892. - L'Ordene de Chevalerie. With Translation by William Morris. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893.
[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. The Order of Chivalry. Translated from the French by William Caxton. Edited by F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1892. - L'Ordene de Chevalerie. With Translation by William Morris. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893.

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[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. The Order of Chivalry. Translated from the French by William Caxton. Edited by F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1892. - L'Ordene de Chevalerie. With Translation by William Morris. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893.

Small 4°. Printed in red and black in Chaucer type. Wood-engraved frontispiece after a design by Edward Burne-Jones, full woodcut border, and numerous 10-line and smaller initials. Original limp vellum, yapp edges, silk ties, gilt-lettered on spine (lacking silk ties, laid in). Provenance: Robert Hoe (1839-1909) American book collector (morocco bookplate on pastedown).

LIMITED EDITION, one of 225 copies from a total edition of 235. THE ROBERT HOE COPY, with his bookplate. Peterson A13; Tomkinson p.110.

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