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LOVE IS ENOUGH, OR THE FREEING OF PHARAMOND: A MORALITY
by MORRIS, WILLIAM
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897. ONE OF 300 printed on paper. There were eight copies printed on vellum. Six olive-green ties, all complete. Spine lettered in gilt. Yapp fore-edges. All edges untrimmed. Two full-page woodcut illustrations by Sir Edward-Byrnes Jones, many ornamental initials and borders designed by Morris. Printed in three colors; red, blue, and black. One of only two Kelmscott Press publications using these three colors. This is a superb copy, without flaws. Protected in a generic slipcase. See Cockerell 52 , Tompkinson p.121, Sparling 52. William Morris (1834-1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer, translator, and social activist, a major contributor to the British Arts and Crafts movement. . First Edition. Full Limp Vellum. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Quarto.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015398
- Title
- LOVE IS ENOUGH, OR THE FREEING OF PHARAMOND: A MORALITY
- Author
- MORRIS, WILLIAM
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Kelmscott Press
- Place of Publication
- Hammersmith
- Date Published
- 1897
- Size
- Quarto
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- William Morris, Kelmscott, Fine Binding, Limited
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
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