Search Results: Authors starting with M from MRM Books

London: Hammersmith Publishing Society, 1902. First Trade Edition. hardcover. Good. 8 3/8" × 5 3/4" (21.3 × 14.6 cm) . First Printing. Printed by Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham & Co. Sold by The Hammersmith Publishing Society. 8vo. Bound in uncertain hardcover brown paper. Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor Anvil & Hammer hand-made paper under the direction of Cobden-Sanderson, and Emery Walker was surely involved paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon. Unpaginated. [vi], 34, [vi] pp. An address given on Morris's contribution in social policy and art by Mackail, after encouragement by Annie Cobden-Sanderson, the suffragette, wife of Thomas Cobden-Sanderson of the Doves Press and friend of Morris. It provides a superb overview of the life of William Morris. The address was given where Morris first started making carpets and which was later used for the meetings of the Hammersmith Socialist Society. Mackail wrote the first biography of William Morris in 1899. Mackail was Morris's biographer… Read More

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1898. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 8 1/4" × 5 5/8" × 7/16" (21 × 14.3 × 1.1 cm) . Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. First Printing. Illustrated by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Printed by William Morris, and sold by the Trustees of the late William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. 8vo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 525 [at ten shillings] paper copies (plus 12 [at two guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). [iv], 70 pp., [1, colophon], [1, blank]. Printed in black and red throughout with the Golden type designed by Morris for his press, with 5 pages in the Troy and Chaucer types he designed. Head-title and shoulder-notes in red. The frontispiece, "Psyche Borne… Read More

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1902. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 11 5/8" × 8 1/4" (29.5 × 21 cm) . First Thus. Printed by Chiswick Press. Large 4to. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with blue linen spine and paper title label. One of 315 (of which 300 were for sale) copies. Printed on fine, hand-made, W M and floral watermarked paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon. [iii], 106, [ii], 100, [iii] pp. Part of a William Morris series comprising eight large quarto books printed at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by Morris for his Kelmscott Press, 1901–1902. First printed in 1888. Chapter headings in red and some notes in red, with shoulder notes in black.Finished on the first day of May, 1902. Spare label tipped in. Label intact. The paper-covered boards have some fading. Some corners bumped. No edge toning. Spine uniformly faded from blue to brown-grey, showing only slight wear at the head and foot. Square and… Read More

London: Reeves and Turner, 1890. Superior Edition. hardcover. Very Good+. 8 1/8" × 6 7/8" (20.6 × 17.5 cm) . First Thus. Printed by Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham & Co. Small 4to. Bound in publisher's original hardcover Morris & Co. "Honeysuckle" printed floral chintz cloth-covered boards (designed by the author & produced by his firm), with gilt titles to spine. One of 250 copies. Printed on fine, hand-made, watermarked "J Whatman 1889" paper. Uncut, deckled edges. [i–iv], [1], 2–424 pp. Printed in Basle Roman type. "Morris bought 'the whole making' of the Whatman paper on which [this book] is printed, and used the balance for catalogues and prospectuses when he founded his own Kelmscott Press. This book so satisfied its author that he never reprinted the work at his Kelmscott Press. He declared it to be the best-looking book issued since the seventeenth century." [Colbeck II p.582]. Morris wrote to Georgie Burne-Jones on 16 November, 1889: "I am so pleased with my book—typography,… Read More

London and Cambridge: Clover Hill Editions with Douglas Cleverdon, 1974. Limited First Edition. Publisher's blue cloth clamshell box with leather title to spine. . Very Good+. 14 1/4" × 10 1/2" × 1 1/4" (36.2 × 26.7 × 3.2 cm) . Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Illustrated by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Printed by Designed & Printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. Publisher's blue cloth clamshell box with leather title to spine. Printed on fine, J. Barcham Green paper. Uncut, deckled edges. William Morris (1834–1896) and Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) began the plans for this magnificent illustrated edition of Morris's poem about Cupid and Psyche, in the 1860s. Morris engraved more than forty wood blocks of Burne-Jones's illustrations. But their ambitious plans were never brought to completion as a whole. These 44 wood engravings survived and are here printed for the first time with the text of the poem. Original tinplate cover with colored paper cover, leather… Read More

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1901–1902. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Very Good+. 11 5/8" × 8 1/4" (29.5 × 21 cm) . First Thus. Printed by Chiswick Press. Large 4tos. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with blue linen spine and paper title label. One of 315 (of which 300 were for sale) copies. Printed on fine, hand-made, W M and floral watermarked paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon. A.o.V. 238; A.I.&W. 163; H&FfA./SoC 106; & O.o.H. 293; R.o.t.M. 284; G.t.S. 177; H.o.t.W. 161 & V.S. 113 pp. A full set of the William Morris series comprising eight large quarto books printed at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by Morris for his Kelmscott Press, 1901–1902. Chapter headings in red and shoulder notes in red in some volumes. Spare labels tipped in. Loose insert from the press in "Hopes and Fears for Art, Sings of Change," that reads: "It has been found advantageous to make one volume instead of two of "Hopes and Fears for Art"… Read More

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1896. First Trade Edition. hardcover. Good. 9 1/4" × 5 1/4" (23.5 × 13.3 cm) . First Printing. Printed by Chiswick Press. Tall 8vos. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and paper title label. One of 750 copies. Printed on fine, hand-made, Charles Whittingham & Co., watermarked "B A S" paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Pages uncut. [i–iv] v–vii [viii], 1–378 [379: printer's imprint] [380: blank]; & [i–iv] v–vi, [1–2] 3–279 p.p. [280: printer's imprint], double flyleaves at front and rear of each volume. Printed in 1893 but delayed by the Kelmscott Press edition issued the same year (which edition was being set up from this edition). Unlike other authors who wrote of foreign lands or of dream worlds, Morris was the first to describe completely invented or fantasy worlds.H.G. Wells praised the book and compared Morris to Malory, admiring his style, writing: "All the workmanship of the book… Read More

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd, 1911?. Later Edition. stiff boards. Good. 6 7/8" × 4 3/8" (17.5 × 11.1 cm) . Everyman's Library. Edited by Ernest Rhys. Printed by The Temple Press, Printers, Letchworth. Small 8vo. Bound in publisher's original stiff boards dark green cloth with blind stamp to cover and gilt design and titles to spine. 303 pp. Very nice, two-page, floral woodblock borders to title page and facing page, with very nicely designed quote from Chaucer. No publication date, but the introduction is dated December 1911. Cover has scuffs and stains. Notes inside covers, in margins, and underlining throughout the book, in both pen and pencil. Extreme yellowing on two pages. Condition overall: Good.

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1900. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine. 11 5/8" × 8 1/4" (29.5 × 21 cm) . First Thus. Printed by Chiswick Press. Large 4to. Bound in later hardcover quarter dark-brown paper boards, with beige cloth tape spine and paper title label. One of 315 (of which only 300 were for sale) copies. Printed on fine, hand-made, W M and floral watermarked paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon. [ii], 1 (map), [i] 177 (including indices), [iii] pp. Preface by William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon. Full-page map of Iceland. Chronology list. Indices at back of Personal Names, Place Names, of Things, Periphrastic Expressions in the Songs, Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings, and a long explanation of the Notes and Corrections to previous translations.First printed in 1869. Finished on the 3rd day of August, 1901 Corners chipped. Scuffing to back board. Spine yellowed. Condition overall: Near Fine.

London: Longmans & Co, 1998. First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine. 8 3/8" × 5 3/4" (21.3 × 14.6 cm) . Latter Impression. Printed by Chiswick Press. 8vo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with blue linen spine and black titles to cover. Printed on fine, hand-made, heavy paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon. [iv], 50, [iv] pp. Part of a William Morris series comprising five octavo books printed at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by Morris for his Kelmscott Press, 1898–1901. "Lecture IV: Architecture and History," A Paper Read before the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, on July 1, 1884; and "Westminster Abbey," A Paper Written for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in June, 1893As Walter Crane wrote of Morris's far-reaching aesthetic philosophy, "if it has not turned all British craftsmen into artists or all British artists into craftsmen, it has done not little to expand and socialize the idea of art, and (perhaps… Read More

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1898. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine. 8 1/4" × 5 5/8" × 7/16" (21 × 14.3 × 1.1 cm) . Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. First Printing. Illustrated by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Printed by William Morris and sold by the Trustees of the late William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. 8vo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 525 [at ten shillings] paper copies (plus 12 [at two guineas] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and the smaller, rectangular printer's device designed by Morris (no. 1). [iv] + 70 + [1, colophon] + [1, blank] pp. Printed in black and red throughout with the Golden type designed by Morris for his press, with 5 pages in the Troy and Chaucer types he designed. Head-title and shoulder-notes in red. The frontispiece, "Psyche… Read More

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1903. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Good+. 6 5/8" × 4 7/8" (16.8 × 12.4 cm) . Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. First Thus. Illustrated by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Printed by Ballantine, Hanson & Co., Edinburgh & London. 12mo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with blue linen spine and paper title label. One of 250 (reset from the Kelmscott Press edition of 1892) copies. Printed on fine, hand-made, heavy paper. Uncut, deckled edges. [vi], 169, [viii] pp. One of a Limited First Edition of and printed on handmade paper, with the frontispiece (with tissue paper intact) by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones: "When Adam Delved and Eve Span, Who then Was the Gentleman?"A Dream of John Ball has been called: "... a work of singular elevation and beauty, which may be classed either as a romance or as a study in the philosophy of history." The story describes time travel encounters between the medieval and modern worlds and is… Read More

London: The English Illustrated Magazine, 1890. First Edition. Disbound. . Near Fine. . Printed by Macmillan and Co. Disbound. 4 pp. Condition overall: Near Fine.

London, 1876. Loose Page . Good+. 7" × 4 1/2" (17.8 × 11.4 cm) . Loose Page [1] p. Hand-written letter by Morris, 1876, probably addressed to Mary Grant Carmichael (1851–1935) who made various compositions on the texts of Morris.Description: "Madam, you have my permission to publish my song with the music to which you have set it, though I must say I do not think it suitable for that purpose. However that is your affair. I have not heard of this having been set to music before. I am M..., William Morris." Date: 14 January 1876 Condition overall: Good+.

New York: Longmans, Green & Co, 1898. First American Edition. hardcover. Ex-Library. 7 7/8" × 5 1/2" (20 × 14 cm) . First Printing. Printed by John Wilson and Son at the University Press in Cambridge U.S.A. 8vo. Bound in library hardcover red cloth with gilt title to spine. Printed on fine, watermarked paper. [vii], [i] (map), 373, [i], [i] (advert) pp. "During the final eight years of his life... Morris wrote ten novels of enduring artistic and thematic strength which have strongly influenced fantasy fiction in the twentieth century, especially the work[s] of [later, fellow Oxford writers] C.S. Lewis [THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA] and J.R.R. Tolkien [THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS]. In these books, Morris established the fantasy novel in English and helped to define the genre by combining characteristics of heroic, romantic, and comic literature... THE SUNDERING FLOOD is Morris's last great work. The final pages were dictated from his deathbed [to Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, on September 8,… Read More

Boston: Roberts House, 1895. First American Edition. hardcover. Good. 8 1/2" × 6 1/4" (21.6 × 15.9 cm) . Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. First Printing. Illustrated by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Printed by the University Press at Cambridge, USA. Large 8vo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover green cloth with black floral design and gilt-stamped decorations and title to cover and spine (bearing a sword reminiscent to the gilt sword used for the "Bayntun binding," on the Roberts Brothers 1890 printing of Morris's "The Tale of the House of the Wolfings"). One of 500 copies. Printed on fine, heavy paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and printer's device. Gilt top edge. [ii], 273, [ii] pp. Frontispiece by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (tissue guard intact), which first appeared in the Kelmscott Press edition of the previous year.Finished the 11th day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five. Cloth at the top of the spine beginning to split. Stain to the top of the rear board. Rear… Read More

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1902. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Good+. 11 5/8" × 8 1/4" (29.5 × 21 cm) . First Thus. Printed by Chiswick Press. Large 4to. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with blue linen spine and paper title label. One of 315 (of which 300 were for sale) copies. Printed on fine, hand-made, W M and floral watermarked paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon. [iii], 106, [ii], 100, [iii] pp. Part of a William Morris series comprising eight large quarto books printed at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by Morris for his Kelmscott Press, 1901–1902. First gathered together and printed here. Chapter headings in red and some notes in red, with shoulder notes in black.Finished on the 23rd day of June, 1902. Label cracked but intact. The paper-covered boards have some fading. Corners bumped. No edge toning. Spine uniformly faded from blue to brown-grey, showing wear at the head and foot with some cracking at cloth… Read More

London/Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. Limited First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine. 5 13/16" × 4 1/16" × 3/8" (14.8 × 10.3 × 1 cm) . Second State. Printed by and sold by William Morris. 16mo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and black titles to cover. One of 500 [of a total run of 1,500, at two shillings and sixpence] paper copies (plus 45 [at ten and fifteen shillings] on vellum). Printed on fine, hand-made, Batchelor (with the second version of the Primrose watermark) paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon. [ii], 1 (title), [i], 68, [viii] pp. Printed in black and red throughout in the Golden type designed by Morris for his press. Head-title and shoulder-notes in red. Numerous 6- and 4-line woodblock initial capitals all designed by Morris, engraved by William Harcourt Hooper. Morris used his four-line initials for this first time with this, his first book printed in the 16mo format. This lecture was setup at… Read More

London: Longmans & Co, 1898. First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine. 8 3/8" × 5 3/4" (21.3 × 14.6 cm) . First Printing. Printed by Chiswick Press. 8vo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with blue linen spine and black titles to cover. Printed on fine, hand-made, heavy paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon. [iv], 25, [iv] pp. Part of a William Morris series comprising five octavo books printed at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by Morris for his Kelmscott Press, 1898–1901. Lecture I: "Birmingham School of Art," delivered before the Birmingham Municipal School of Art. on Feb. 21, 1894.As Walter Crane wrote of Morris's far-reaching aesthetic philosophy, "if it has not turned all British craftsmen into artists or all British artists into craftsmen, it has done not little to expand and socialize the idea of art, and (perhaps it is not too much to say) has made the tasteful English house with its furniture and decorations a model for the… Read More

Chicago: Blue Sky Press, 1904. Second Edition. hardcover. Good+. 5 1/2" × 8 1/2" × 3/8" (14 × 21.6 × 1 cm) . First Thus. Small 8vo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover olive green paper boards, with dark green linen spine. Title in gilt on upper board, with a border of intertwined oak leaves in black, anticipating of the style of decorative boarders designed by Morris for his Kelmscott Press. . One of 500, this being #50, (plus 25 on Japan vellum) copies. Printed on fine, heavy, watermarked paper, with yapped edges. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon. [ii, endpaper], [viii, blank], [i, half-title], [ii, blank], [i, fronticsiece], [i, title page], [iii, blank], [1–21],[i, colophon], [iv, blank] [ii endpaper] pp. French-fold pages (unopened and intentionally blank on the back sides) and printed in red and black from hand-lettered plates. Thomas Wood Stevens designed the book and the lettering was executed under his direction. Dark green cloth spine with dark gray-green printed paper boards.… Read More