KELMSCOTT PRESS: LULL, Ramon.

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The Order of Chivalry. First Kelmscott edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Morris on the second blank three days before publication, "To Edward Burne-Jones from William Morris, April 9th 1893". Burne-Jones's book label, printed in Morris's Golden type, is on the front pastedown. This is one of 225 copies printed on paper.Burne-Jones designed books for the Kelmscott Press between 1892 and 1898, including the frontispiece in this book. At the end of his life, the artist wrote: "Morris's friendship began everything for me; everything that I afterwards cared for". Morris and Burne-Jones met in 1853 as undergraduates at Exeter College, Oxford. Bonded by a mutual admiration for medieval culture and a desire to resist industrialization's impact on art, they abandoned their divinity studies and, at the suggestion of their friend Dante Gabriel Rossetti, moved together to London. Their collaboration became one of the most defining creative partnerships of the arts and crafts movement, shaping its ideals through their work in painting, design, and book arts. Burne-Jones was deeply drawn to the idealized world of medieval chivalry and knights, a fascination which he shared with other pre-raphaelite artists and with the members of the arts and crafts movement, including Morris. Chivalry, with its themes of honour, courtly love, and mysticism, inspired some of Burne-Jones's most celebrated artworks, such as The Merciful Knight and the Holy Grail tapestries, the latter depicting scenes

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