The Defence of Guenevere and other Poems by William Morris. Illustrated by Jessie M. King.
Author:
William Morris and Jessie M. King [ Isabel Bonus ]
Publication details:
London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head. 1904.
£280.00
SKU: 17222
8vo. 310pp. Red cloth, gilt extra, with ornate design to front board and spine. First edition with King's illustrations. A good copy of an extremely attractive book, in binding with light fading in parts, but gilt still bright, and with the merest wear at head of spine. Bookplate by Isabel Bonus for Annie C. Dolamore. Collated and complete. All of King's ninety-five illustrations are present, with twenty-four of them, including the frontispiece, on shiny art paper. A sumptuous item, produced at the high point of King's Art Nouveau period.
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