¶ Herodotus — Historiographi libri novem (1526)

Herodotus. Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiographi libri novem. Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus for Gottfried Hittorp, 10 January 1526.

With Morris book label. Shortly after Morris’s death, his executors sold several books privately to Fairfax Murray (who at one time hoped to buy the entire library), and this seems likely to have been one of them, since it does not appear in the 1898 Sotheby catalogue. A further complication is that when it was auctioned in 1917 (see below), the catalogue entry fails to mention Morris, but it is almost certainly the same book, since the binding (half russia) is identical.

Provenance: Morris. — Charles Fairfax Murray. — Fairfax Murray sale, Christie, 11 December 1917, lot 212. — Unlocated.

Reference: Fairfax Murray Catalogue (German), 1, no. 198.

¶ Guillaume, de Lorris — Le romant de la rose (1526)

Guillaume, de Lorris. Le romant de la rose. Ed. Clément Marot. Paris: vend Jean Petit, [1526].

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 987 (sold to Breslauer for £20). — Unlocated.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 19b, no. 243 (£20).

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¶ Commynes — Cronique et histoire (1526)

Commynes, Philippe de. Cronique et histoire, contenant les choses advenues durant le regne du roy Loys unziesme, tant en France, Bourgongne. Lyon: Claude Nourry, 1526.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 269 (sold to Leighton for £2 2s.). — Unlocated.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 16b, no. 198 (£1 15s.).

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¶ Liechtenberger — Prognosticatio (1526)

Liechtenberger, Johannes. Prognosticatio Iohannis Liechtenbergers. Cologne: Quentel, 1526.

Illustrated. Presentation copy from Edward Burne-Jones to Morris.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 663 (sold to Tregaskis for £8 15s.). — Unlocated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 7b, no. 86 (£2). — MS catalogue (2), no. 936, p. 86.

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¶ Grete herball (1526)

The grete herball whiche geveth parfyt knowlege and understandyng of all maner of herbes [and] there gracyous vertues whiche god hath ordeyned for our prosperous welfare and helth. Southwark: printed by Peter Treveris, 27 July 1526.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 583 (sold to Quaritch for £20). — John Charrington. — Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1944) [presently on view in Gallery 10 of the Cloisters].

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 50b (£10). — ESTC (S106096).

Digital version: EEBO.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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