The Golden Legend Presentation copy

by Kelmscott Press, Jacobus de Voraigne, William Caxton

$48,750 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books · No longer available

Signed

Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 1892. First Kelmscott edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Morris on the first blank one month before publication, “To Edward Burne-Jones from William Morris, Oct. 5th 1892.” Burne-Jones’s book label, printed in Morris’s Golden type, is on the front pastedown. This is one of 500 sets printed on paper.Three volumes, quarto.

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