KELMSCOTT

Paper wraps, covers chipped, minor foxing, mainly good condition. Catalogue containing 334 items, paper cover worn at edges and spine, a very good copy. FAMOUS FIRST EDITIONS AND OTHER BOOKS OF LITERARY AND ARTISTIC MERIT FROM THE LIBRARY OF A GENTLEMAN. RARE FINE WORKS BY GRAY, FIELDING, COWLEY, SCOTT, DEFOE, DE QUINCEY, DICKENS, PEPYS, GAY, AND OTHER NOTABLE AUTHORS. Also remarkable collections of rare books by Kipling, Stevenson, Jefferies, Kingsley, Moore, Wilde, Tennyson, Borrow, Meredith, and others; and complete sets of Kelmscott Press and Doves Press.

[2] + 77pp., small 4to. A good tight copy, on lightly-aged paper, with foxing to pp.40-41. In original lightly-worn grey paper boards, with white printed labels on cover and spine. Autograph correction by Meyerstein on p.72. Meyerstein's autograph presentation poem is on the front free endpaper, and is dated by him, in decorative style, to 1949.

An interesting collection of typographical ephemera. ONE: Landscape 8vo wood engraving, captioned 'This illustration, entitled "Psyche in Charon's Boat," was engraved on wood by William Morris from a design by Edward Burne-Jones and forms one of a series in illustration of the story of Cupid and Psyche in "The Earthly Paradise." It is proposed to issue one or two of these designs, which have never been published, though one of them formed the frontispiece to the "Note on the Kelmscott Press" by Mr. S. C. Cockerell.' In good condition, on lightly-aged paper.

Six pages, 8vo, water-stained but texts clear and complete. Much of the letters are concerned with elements of his executorship of the will of William Morris - (and trusteeship). In the letter to May he begins by expressing relief that "the Horace [book or manusript] was safe", then discussing a payment of £785 due to her (she adds the comment "About £785 due to me" in pencil at the end) and the payment due to Jenny. "When we were at Kelmscott I explained ot her that all claims contracted after Jan.26 would be payable by your father's executors.