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Lot 161

Sale 6285 - Books and Manuscripts
Mar 27, 2025 10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$2,500 - 4,000
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$5,440
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[Kelmscott Press] Morris, William. The Wood Beyond the World


Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, May 30, 1894. First edition (one of 350 copies, from a total of 358). 4to. (iv), 261 pp. Printed in red and black Chaucer type. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, within full-page woodcut borders, as well as numerous partial woodcut borders and woodcut initials. Original limp vellum, original yellow silk ties, spine lettered in gilt; illustrated book-plate of W. and P.J. Kupfer on front paste-down. Peterson A27; Tomkinson 27

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