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A fine edition of Maeterlinck's play L'Oiseau Bleu (The Blue Bird), featuring stunning artwork by French illustrator André Marty (1882–1974).
Description: Quarter sheepskin over marbled paper covered boards, with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Octavo: 20 × 14 cm; pp. 171, [3]. 27 full-page and in-text illustrations. Top edge gilt.
Condition: Spine ends somewhat nibbled. Pages slightly toned due to their age, one mark in the margin of page 103. No foxing. Else a very good copy.

Two works in one volume, with the editorial notes by François Sweerts (1567-1629). 2nd edition.
Description: 2 works in 1 vol. contemporary calf, spine with raised bands, decorated with single gilt fillets and red morocco label lettered in gilt. Vigesimo-quarto: 13 × 7 cm; (vol. 1): [1]ll., [15]ll., 151pp., [13]ll. (vol. 2): [16]ll., 196pp., [7]ll. With a engraved frontispiece by P.[ierre] Philippe, 2 printer's marks (1 right reading, 1 reverse reading; the motto is right reading in each case), 1 double-page, 20 full page (thereof 2 fold-out) plates.
Provenance: On the front pastedown the bookplate of Ramon Sarro, Catedratico de Psiquiatria de Barcelona.
Condition: Binding a bit scuffed and rubbed, spine ends somewhat nibbled, outer hinges somewhat age brittle. Inner hinges cracked but sound. A few wormholes at the lower margin of the front pastedown. Contents with occasional slight spotting but generally clean.
Notes: Little is known about the Italian scholar Girolamo Maggi (c. 1523–1572). The… Read More

Vol. 2 (of 4) of the complete works of Virgil in Latin printed by Wetstein in Amsterdam. This volume contains the first 5 books of the Aeneid.
Description: Contemporary full vellum, fillet border to boards in blind, enclosing flourish ornament on front and rear boards, handwritten title to spine. Quarto: 26 × 20 cm; pp. [2], 706. Title page printed in red and black, with Wetstein's printer's mark, 1 fold-out map (25,5 × 38,5 cm), 5 engraved headpieces and numerous vignettes and decorative ornaments. Red speckled edges.
Condition: Covers slightly soiled and showing some wear. Slight bow to front board. Pages slightly yellowed with age.
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Liber I-XIV and De Spectaculis. The works of Martial became highly valued on their discovery by the Renaissance, whose writers often saw them as sharing an eye for the urban vices of their own times.
Description: Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in manuscripts. Duodecimo: 15 × 8.5 cm; pag.: 492. With copper-engraved frontispiece.
Condition: Minor soiling and wear to covers. Missing front free endpaper. Very faint marginal toning to contents, inner hinges cracked but firm on cords. Overall a well-preserved copy.

This speech illustrates Morris's life, craftsmanship and politics. Second edition, following the Doves Press edition of the previous year.
Description: Bound in brown paper covered boards and vellum spine. William Morris printed vertically on the spine. Octavo: 22 × 15 cm; unpaginated, pp. [36]. Printed by the Chiswick Press on Batchelor's Anvil & Hammer handmade paper.
Ref.: Walsdorf 201
Condition: Light toning to the vellum and minor edgewear to the board edges. Front free endpapers and pages are clean and crisp, hinges are sound. A remarkably good and fresh copy.

A lecture delivered by William Morris at Burslem Town Hall on October 13, 1881. The 2nd of six lectures by Morris published in the same format.
Description: Pale blue paper over boards, with the title page text reproduced on the upper front cover, cloth spine. Octavo: 21 × 14.5 cm; pp. [2] 31. Printed from 'Golden' type on fine mould-made paper.
Inserted: Loosely inserted a printed note from the publisher indicating that the book may not be sold for a discounted price.
Ref.: Walsdorf 68
Condition: Minor age toning to covers. Endpapers and pages are clean and bright, hinges are sound. A very good copy.
Notes: Over the years this lecture has been one of the essays by Morris which has most often been reprinted, with special reference given to his words, "Time was when everybody that made anything made a work of art besides a useful piece of goods, and it gave them pleasure to make it […] if I have any worthy aspiration, it is the hope that I may help to bring about the day when we shall be able to… Read More

Lecture IV Architecture and History, pp. 1–33; and Lecture V Westminster Abbey, pp. 35–50. Lecture Architecture and History was first given by Morris as a paper read before the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) on July 1. 1884. Westminster Abbey was a paper written for the SPAB in June of 1893.
Description: Pale blue paper over boards, with the title page text reproduced on the upper front cover, cloth spine. Octavo: 21 × 14.5 cm; pp. [2] 50. Printed from 'Golden' type on fine mould-made paper.
Ref.: Walsdorf 77
Condition: Some age toning and soiling to covers (back cover has a slightly larger spot at the bottom), a bit of edgewear and slight sunning to spine. Usual age tanning to one side of free endpapers. Pages are clean and bright, hinges are sound.

A lecture delivered by William Morris at the Working Men's College, London on December 10, 1881. The 3rd of six lectures by Morris published in the same format.
Description: Pale blue paper over boards, with the title page text reproduced on the upper front cover, cloth spine. Octavo: 21 × 14.5 cm; pp. [2] 45. Printed from 'Golden' type on fine mould-made paper.
Enclosed: Loosely inserted a printed note from the publisher indicating that the book may not be sold for a discounted price.
Ref.: Walsdorf 73
Condition: Minor age toning to covers, a bit of edgewear. Endpapers and pages are clean and bright, pages are unopened, hinges are sound. A very good copy.
Notes: In this lecture, Morris discusses pattern designing of various materials and predicts the influence and execution of floral and landscape motifs later found in the works of such people as Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1943) and the Rookwood Pottery Company (1880–1940).

First edition of the first published lecture by William Morris. Scarce in this exemplary state.
Description: Sewn as issued in publisher's printed light blue paper wrappers. Duodecimo: 18 × 12 cm; pp. 32.
Condition: Light age toning to edges of covers. Internally clean and free of marks. According to its age a near fine copy.
Notes: In 'The Decorative Arts' Morris first formulated his guiding principle that the decline in the artistic quality of the things around us was the result of the separation of art and craft, and that only a reunion of art and craft could lead to better design. Morris repeated and refined this idea in various lectures he gave between 1877 and 1885. It was also this principle that eventually led to the founding of the Kelmscott Press.