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Lot 160

Sale 6285 - Books and Manuscripts
Mar 27, 2025 10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$600 - 900
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$2,048
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[Kelmscott Press] Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile


Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, March 13, 1894. First edition (one of 500 copies on Perch paper, from a total of 515). 16mo. (ii), 67 pp. Text printed in red and in black Chaucer type. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece, within full-page woodcut borders, as well as full woodcut border on p. (1), and woodcut initials. Publisher's quarter oatmeal cloth over blue paper-covered boards, stamped in black. Peterson A23; Tomkinson 23

Fine first edition of William Morris' English translation of this medieval French romance. One of the most charming of the smaller-format Kelmscott publications.

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