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Sparling, H. Halliday.
The Kelmscott Press and William Morris Master-Craftsman.
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., Limited. London;
Date of Publication: 1924
Stock Code: 10088
First Edition. Octavo, pp., ix, [1]. 176, [2], 2 catalogue. Frontispiece portrait of Morris with tissue guard plus 19 illustrations to 16 plates. Publishers’ grey quarter linen with printed paper title-label to spine and blue paper-covered boards, in unclipped printed dust-jacket. Additional title label bound-in to rear; edges uncut. Spine lightly foxed; text-block edge foxed otherwise contents clean; no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket toned, particularly to spine, lightly foxed and entirely backed with plain white paper. A very good copy in like dust-jacket. Detailed study of the Kelmscott Press, its history and operation, by Morris’ son-in-law Henry Halliday Sparling; appendices include an annotated list of the books printed at the Press by S. C. Cockerell and a note on his aims in founding the Press by Morris himself. £125.00