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LOT 165
SOLD €750,00

[Kelmscott Press] Syr Perecyvelle of Gales.

Colophon: Overseen by F.S. Ellis, after the edition printed by J.O. Halliwell from the MS. in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral. Printed by William Morris, at the Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith. Finished on the 18th of February, 1895. (8 blank),(4),98,(10 blank) p., printed in black and red with Chaucer types on Batchelor handmade paper, one of 350 copies on papier, with woodcut frontispiece by Edward Burne-Jones and woodcut title border after him, book decoration in the shape of initials and borders designed by William Morris, original blue cardboard with cloth back.

Outer corners of boards trifle bumped and minimal other defects. Very good copy. Petersen A33; Franklin, The private presses, p. 191; Tomkinson, Bibliography of modern presses, Great Britain, p. 116, 33.

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