The Works [authorised by The Morris estate]. The House of the Wolfings; Architecture, Industry and Wealth; The Volsunga Saga; Three Northern Love Stories; Homer's Odyssey; The Aeneids of Virgil; Grettir the Strong; Hopes and Fears for Art; Signs of Change; The Roots of the Mountians.

MORRIS, William (1834-1896).

London: [Kelmscott] Chiswick Press For The Trustees of The Late William Morris, by Longmans Green and Co., 1901. [Literature/Essays] LIMITED EDITION, finely printed in two colours in the Golden Type of Kelmscott Press. Eight volumes. Quarto (29 x 21cm), bound in publisher's blue linen-backed boards, printed paper title labels to spine, spare labels tipped-in, printed prospectus, publisher's note and contemporary postcard loosely inserted. Elegant booklabel of John Charrington to pastedown, contents fine, some leaves unopened, spines sunned, boards tanned; very good. One of just 300 sets made for sale. Printed on the same Kelmscott Press paper (with the daisy watermark) and bound in the style of 'The Golden Legend', this set was produced to satisfy the late author's wishes to print the full series of his works at his press, "no pains being spared to make them worthy of a place beside The Kelmscott Press volumes which are now so widely sought". The present set was almost certainly purchased by subscription upon publication. John Charrington (1856-1939) was a prominent art collector, curator and Hon. Keeper of Prints at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (where much of his collection now resides) [source: British Museum]. Item #63064

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