KELMSCOTT PRESS: MORRIS, William (trans.).

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The Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane. First edition translated by William Morris, presentation copy, inscribed by Morris to Georgiana Burne-Jones the day after publication, "To Georgie from Wm, December 29th, 1893". Georgiana met Morris decades earlier through her future husband, Edward Burne-Jones, sparking a creative collaboration and close personal friendship that lasted for the rest of Morris's life.On the same day as this presentation, Georgiana Burne-Jones (1840-1920) also received from Morris a copy of Rossetti's Ballads and Narrative Poems. She was "the woman to whom [Morris] addressed himself most openly and fully on all occasions, with whom he shared his interests and concerns, and not least his political ones. She was the woman, that is, whom he trusted as a friend before all others" (Kelvin, p. xxxix). In the early years of their marriage, Georgiana and Edward Burne-Jones spent summer holidays with William and Jane Morris at Red House. When Jane Morris turned her affections towards Rossetti, William Morris increasingly relied on his friendship with Georgiana and for a time spent every Sunday breakfast in the Burne-Jones household, The Grange in Fulham.Morris frequently sought Georgiana's opinions on his books. "If you only knew what I expect of my friends... Such close attention, such anxiety on their parts such sincerity withal - O the cross-questioning of them after a reading! Only ask Georgie" (Letters, I, p. 150). As an artist, Georgiana was employed in

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