Lot 157
Kelmscott Press.- Sire Degrevaunt, one of 350 copies, Sydney Cockerell's copy with his inscription and cut signatures of Morris & Burne Jones, orig. holland-backed boards, 8vo, Kelmscott Press, 1896.
Hammer Price: £1,400
Description
Kelmscott Press.- Sire Degrevaunt, edited by F.S.Ellis, one of 350 copies on Flower paper, printed in red and black in Chaucer type, wood-engraved frontispiece designed by Edward Burne-Jones and borders and initials by William Morris, Sydney Cockerell's copy with his contemporary ink inscription on front free endpaper and cut signatures of William Morris and Edward Burne Jones tipped to rear endpaper, original holland-backed boards, upper cover titled in black, uncut, spine a little browned and spotted, [Peterson A47], 8vo, Kelmscott Press, 1896 [issued 1897].
⁂ A popular story with Morris; Burne-Jones had painted a mural of The Wedding Procession of Sire Degrevaunt in Morris's drawing room at the Red House back in 1860.
Sir Sydney C.Cockerell (1867-1962), secretary to the Kelmscott Press and William Morris's executor, responsible for completing the outstanding Kelmscott Press books after Morris's death. He later became director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Description
Kelmscott Press.- Sire Degrevaunt, edited by F.S.Ellis, one of 350 copies on Flower paper, printed in red and black in Chaucer type, wood-engraved frontispiece designed by Edward Burne-Jones and borders and initials by William Morris, Sydney Cockerell's copy with his contemporary ink inscription on front free endpaper and cut signatures of William Morris and Edward Burne Jones tipped to rear endpaper, original holland-backed boards, upper cover titled in black, uncut, spine a little browned and spotted, [Peterson A47], 8vo, Kelmscott Press, 1896 [issued 1897].
⁂ A popular story with Morris; Burne-Jones had painted a mural of The Wedding Procession of Sire Degrevaunt in Morris's drawing room at the Red House back in 1860.
Sir Sydney C.Cockerell (1867-1962), secretary to the Kelmscott Press and William Morris's executor, responsible for completing the outstanding Kelmscott Press books after Morris's death. He later became director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
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