¶ Marx — Capital (1887)

Marx, Karl. Capital: a critical analysis of capitalist production. Ed. Frederick Engels; trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling. 2 vols. London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, & Co., 1887.

Inscribed by Engels and Aveling to Morris, March 1887 (see images below).

Provenance: Morris. —Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 635 (sold to Edmunds for £1 11s.). — Erasmushaus Haus der Bücher, Basel, 6 May 1985 (sold to an unidentified Swiss
businessman for $25,000). — Galerie-Moenius (Bern) catalogue 79, 30 October 2021 (sold to Peter Harrington for CHF 110,000). — Offered for sale (£275,000) by Peter Harrington, March 2022.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 595.

Digital versions: Google (vol. 2). — HathiTrust (vol. 2). — Internet Archive (vol. 1).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Malory — Kynge Arthur (1557)

Malory, Sir Thomas. The story of the moste noble and worthy Kynge Arthur, the whiche was the fyrst of the worthyes Chrysten, and also of his noble and valyaunt knyghtes of the rounde table. London: Wyllyam Copland, 1557.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 136 (sold to Quaritch for £31). — Allerton C. Hickmott. — Dartmouth College Library, Rauner Rare Books (PR2043 .W5 1557) [gift from Hickmott].

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 51b (£20). — ESTC (S106641) — MS catalogue (2), no. 958, p. 89.

Digital version: EEBO.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Four titles (1489–1500)

The following titles are bound together:

[1] Philippi, Jacobus. Praecordiale devotorum. Basel: [Michael Furter], 16 June 1489.

Illustrated.

Reference: ISTC (ip00953000).

Digital version: BSB.

[2] Meditationes de vita et beneficiis Jesu Christ. [Cologne: Johann Landen, c. 1500.]

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 24b (£3). — ISTC (im00434000).

Digital version: ULD.

[3] Zerbolt, Gerard [Gerardus de Zutphania]. De spiritualibus ascensionibus. [Basel: Johann Amerbach and Johann Petri de Langendorff, not after 1489.]

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 24b (£3) [listed with Meditationes (above)]. — ISTC (ig00177000).

Digital version: BSB.

[4] Bertholdus. Horologium devotionis. Cologne: Johann Landen, [c. 1498].

Illustrated.

Reference: ISTC (ib00507000).

Digital version: ULD.

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Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 813 (sold to Sotheran for £22). — John Rylands Library, University of Manchester (Incunable Collection R18016.1).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Cleasby — Icelandic–English dictionary (1869)

Cleasby, Richard, and Gudbrand Vigfusson. An Icelandic–English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869.

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: Morris catalogue (2), no. 691 (where it is misdated 1859).

This title also appears in MS catalogue (1), fol. 19v (£1 10s.), but it is not clear whether that record refers to this book or another edition of the dictionary (1874) that Morris also owned.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

¶ L’Abusé en court (c. 1494–95)

L’Abusé en court. [Lyon]: Martin Havard, [c. 1494–95].

Illustrated.

Provenance: George Hibbert. — George Charles Bright. — James T. Gibson Craig. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL 1589).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 15b, no. 185 (£15). — ISTC (ia00016000 ) — Morgan Catalogue 3, no. 617.

Digital version: Gallica.

¶ Moland — Nouvelles françoises en prose du XIIIe siécle (1856)

Moland, Louis Émile Dieudonné, and Charles d’Hâericault. Nouvelles françoises en prose du XIIIe siécle. Bibliothèque elzevirienne. Paris: Pierre Jannet, 1856.

With a note by Robert Steele: “Used by Morris in his translation of King Florus, Amis and Amile, and the Emperor Coustans.”

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 42 (part; sold to Breslauer for £1 9s.). — Caxton Head [Tregaskis] catalogue 539, July 1903. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 67.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Moland — Nouvelles françoises en prose du XIV siécle (1856)

Moland, Louis Émile Dieudonné, and Charles d’Hâericault. Nouvelles françoises en prose du XIVe siécle. Bibliothèque elzevirienne. Paris: Pierre Jannet, 1858.

The Sotheby 1898 catalogue indicates that Morris owned two copies of this title.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 42 (part; sold to Breslauer for £1 9s.). — Unlocated.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Wright — Les cent nouvelles nouvelles (1858)

Wright, Thomas, ed. Les cent nouvelles nouvelles. Bibliothèque elzevirienne. 2 vols. Paris: Pierre Jannet, 1858.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 42 (part; sold to Breslauer for £1 9s.). — Unlocated.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Montaiglon — Le livre du chevalier de la Tour-Landry (1854)

Montaiglon, Anatole de. Le livre du chevalier de la Tour-Landry. Bibliothèque elzevirienne. Paris: Pierre Jannet, 1854.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 42 (part; sold to Breslauer for £1 9s.). — Caxton Head [Tregaskis] catalogue 539, July 1903, no. 193 (12s. 6d.). — Unlocated.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Three titles (1491–c. 1510)

The following titles are bound together:

[1] Vergerio, Pietro Paolo [Petrus Paulus Vergerius]. De ingenuis moribus ac liberalibus studiis. Trans. Leonardo Bruni [Leonardus Brunus Aretinus]. Venice: Johannes Baptista Sessa, April 1491.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 44 (£1 10s.). — ISTC (iv00136000). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 349.

[2] Astemio, Lorenz [Laurentius Abstemius]. Fabulae. Venice: Johannes Tacuinus, de Tridino, 1 June [1499].

References: ISTC (ia00012000). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 369.

Digital version: VdI.

[3] Salomonis et Marcolphi dyalogus. [Milan(?): c. 1505–1510].

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 47 (no price). — Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 395.

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Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL968). [The three works are catalogued separately: Vergerio; Astemio; Salomonis et Marcolphi dyalogus.]

¶ Musurus — Etymologicum Magnum Graecum (1499)

Musurus, Marcus, ed. Etymologicum Magnum Graecum. Venice: Zacharias Callierges for Nicolaus Blastus and Anna Notaras, 8 July 1499.

The text, including the title, is entirely in Greek.

Provenance: Dr. Askew. — Askew sale, Baker, c. 22 February 1775 (sold to Michael Wodhull for £2 12s. 6d.). — Michael Wodhull. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 518 (sold to Quaritch for £4). — John Boyd Thacher. — Library of Congress (Thacher Collection 483).

References: ISTC (ie00112000). — Thacher 1, no. 483.

Digital version: BSB.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Morris — Roots of the mountains (1890)

Morris, William. The roots of the mountains. London: Reeves and Turner, 1890.

Inscribed by Morris to Jenny Morris.

Provenance: Morris. — Jenny Morris. — Mark Samuel Lasner. — Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

¶ Rossetti — Family letters (1895)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: his family letters. Ed. William Michael Rossetti. 2 vols. London: Ellis and Elvey, 1895.

With Morris book label.

Provenance: Morris. — Mark Samuels Lasner (purchased from Heartwood Books, 1982). — Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

¶ Mirth in ridicule (1708)

Mirth in ridicule, or a satyr against immoderate laughing. London: J. Morphew, [1708].

Morris book label but not listed in the Sotheby 1898 catalogue.

Provenance: Morris. — Sotheby, 2004, lot 348 (sold for £1,920). — Unlocated.

Reference: ESTC (T118869).

Digital version: EECO.

¶ Rossetti — Family letters (1895)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: his family letters. Ed. William Michael Rossetti. 2 vols. London: Ellis and Elvey, 1895.

Large paper. This probably passed through the Sotheby 1898 sale, since it has Morris’s book label, but it does not appear in that catalogue.

Provenance: Morris. — W.F.G. — James William Ellsworth. — Rosenbach (sold 27 December 1943 for $25). — Christie, 2004, lot 198 (sold for £1,075). — Unlocated.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

¶ Conradus, de Brundelsheim — Sermones (1480)

Conradus, de Brundelsheim [Soccus]. Sermones de tempore. Deventer: Richardus Pafraet, 1480.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1124 (sold to Proctor for £5 10s.). — Robert Proctor. — Unlocated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 42 (10s.). — ISTC (is00588000). — MS catalogue (2), no. 932, p. 85 (with an X beside the title).

Digital version: ULD.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Rawlinson — Great monarchies (1873–76)

The two following titles are conflated in the Sotheby 1898 catalogue as The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world. (Morris seems not to have owned The sixth great Oriental monarchy, published in 1873, or if he did, it may have been deaccessioned by the Wellcome Library, which has another copy without Morris’s book label.)

[1] Rawlinson, George. The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world, or the history, geography, and antiquities of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia. 3rd ed. 3 vols. London: John Murray, 1873.

[2] Rawlinson. The seventh great Oriental monarchy, or the geography, history, and antiquities of the Sassanian or new Persian empire. 2 vols. in 1. London: Longmans, 1876.

Digital version: Internet Archive (Morris’s copy).

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Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 822 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £6 10s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores Hist. 2 ZBB.28).

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 136 (where the title is rendered as “Rawlinson’s Ancient Monarchies”).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Aquinas (c. 1500) and Biel (1499)

The following titles were bound together but were separated after Morris’s death:

[1] Aquinas, Thomas, Saint. In hoc libello continentur tres tractatuli. Primus est sancti Thome Aquinatis de mirabili quidditate et efficacia venerabilis sacramenti eucharistie. Secundus est magistri Nicolai de lyra de idoneo ministrante suscipiente idem sacramentum. Tercius est alicuius docti collectoris de expositione dominice orationis. [Cologne: Heinrich Quentel, c. 1500.]

Digital version: Google.

[2] Biel, Gabriel. Epitoma expositionis sacri canonis missae. Ed. Wendelin Steinbach. Tübingen: [Johann Otmar for Friedrich Meynberger, 1499.]

Illustrated.

Reference: ISTC (ib00654000).

Digital version: BSB.

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Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1078 (sold to Proctor for £1 16s.). — Robert Proctor. — [Aquinas only:] — Christie (South Kensington), 20 September 1996, lot 2 (sold to Maggs for £1,255). — Maggs catalogue 1220, no. 8. — Unlocated.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Morris — Life and death of Jason (1877)

Morris, William. The life and death of Jason: a poem. 7th ed. London: Ellis and White, 1877.

With corrections in pencil.

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 263.

Digital version: Google.

¶ Livy — Hystory of two the moste noble captaynes of the world (1590)

Livy [Titus Livius]. The hystory of two the moste noble captaynes of the world, Anniball and Scipio. Trans. Antony Cope. London: William How, 1590.

Misdated as “159” in MS catalogue (1) (see below).

Provenance: Morris (purchased for £1 1s). — Unlocated.

References: ESTC (S108670). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 13.

Digital version: EEBO.

¶ Homassel — Cours théorique et pratique (1807)

Homassel. Cours théorique et pratique sur l’art de la teinture. 2nd ed. Paris: Courcier, 1807.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 30 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for 15s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / B 29247/B).

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 558.

Digital version: Gallica.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Ptolemy — Cosmographia (1486)

Ptolemy [Claudius Ptolomaeus]. Cosmographia. Trans. Jacobus Angelus. Ulm: Johann Reger, for Justus de Albano, 21 July 1486.

Illustrated. Inscribed “to E Burne-Jones from William Morris Feb: 10th 1895.”

Provenance: Sunderland Library, Blenheim Palace. — Quaritch (purchased in 1882). — Morris. — Edward Burne-Jones (gift from Morris, 1895). — Maritime Museum, Rotterdam (WAE56).

References: ISTC (ip01085000). — MS catalogue (2), no. 985 (with one X beside the title).

Digital version: BSB. — The Maritime Museum also offers seven digital images from Morris’s copy.

Maritime Museum

¶ Riaño — Industrial arts in Spain (1879)

Riaño, Juan F. The industrial arts in Spain. London: Published for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, 1879.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 424.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

¶ Duff — Early printed books (1893)

Duff, E. Gordon. Early printed books. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1893.

Unsigned note—attributed to Emery Walker by Philip Hofer—on front pastedown: “This belonged to a little collection of printed books which Morris kept at the Press (at 21 Upper Mall, Hammersmith) for the use of his printers.” With the Morris book label, so it may have passed through the 1898 Sotheby sale (though it is not listed in that catalogue).

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett (?). — Sotheby 1898 (?). — Houghton Library, Harvard University (Typ 805.93.3404).

Digital version: Wellcome Library (Morris’s other copy at the Wellcome Library).

¶ Bruni — De bello Italico (1471)

Bruni, Leonardo [Leonardus Brunus Aretinus]. De bello Italico adversus Gothos gesto. [Venice]: Nicolaus Jenson, [before July] 1471.

Quaritch bought heavily at the Crawford sale, and presumably the book came to Morris through him.

Provenance: Ambroise Firmin-Didot. — Firmin-Didot sale, 1881, no. 533 — W. H. Crawford (bought in Rome, 1884). — Crawford sale, 1887, no. 204. — Quaritch (?). — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL750).

References: ISTC (ib01235000).— Morgan Catalogue 2, no. 291. — MS catalogue (2), no. 928 (with two X’s beside the title).

Digital version: BSB.

¶ Rampegolo — Figurarum Biblie (1511)

Rampegolo, Antonio [Antonius Rampigollis]. Figurarum Biblie opus conducibile et perutile. Cologne: [Cornelius von Zierickzee], 1511.

Illustrated. The date given in the Sotheby catalogue is 1505, but we cannot find such an edition and have listed the 1511 edition instead.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 819 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £4). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Wellcome auctions (1), lot 226 (sold to Eiseman for £2 ). — Unlocated.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 7b, no. 81 (10s.) — MS catalogue (2), no. 981.

Digital version: BSB.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Four sagas (19th century)

The following titles are bound together:

[1] Gislason, Konrad, ed. Sagan af Helga ok Grími Droplaugarsonum. Copenhagen: Brødrene Berlings Bogtrykkeri, 1847.

Digital version: Google.

[2] Hervar saga ok Heiđreks konungs. Copenhagen: Brødrene Berlings Bogtrykkeri, 1847.

[3] Sagan af Þorđi Hređu. Copenhagen: Berlingske Bogtrykkeri, 1848.

[4] Barđarsaga Snœfellsass Viglundarsaga. Copenhagen: Berlingske Bogtrykkeri ved N. H. Stendrup, 1860.

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Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 846 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for £2 4s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Beinecke Library, Yale University (2000 1525.)

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Regiomontanus, Puerbach, and Stoeffler (1496–1514)

The following titles are bound together:

[1] Regiomontanus, Joannes. Epitoma in Almagestum Ptolemaei. Venice: Johannes Hamman for Kaspar Grossch and Stephan Roemer, 31 August 1496.

Reference: ISTC (ir00111000).

Digital version: BSB.

[2] Puerbach, Georg von. Tabulae eclypsium. Vienna: J. Winterburger, 15 April 1514.

[3] Stoeffler, Johannes. Tabulae astronomicae. Tübingen: T. Anshelmus, 1514.

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Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 982 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £6 10s.) — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (5.b.2 (SR)).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Suetonius — Vitae XII Caesarum (1470)

Suetonius. Vitae XII Caesarum. Ed. Johannes Andreas. Rome: Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, [after 30 August] 1470.

Provenance: Morris. — Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1075 (sold to Leighton for £4). — George Dunn. —Dunn sale, Sotheby, 22–29 November 1917, lot 3762 (sold to Quaritch for £18). — C. W. Ascherson. — Georges Heilbrun. — Unlocated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 42 (£3 5s.). [Morris owned two copies of this book, one of which was sold in 1898, now unlocated, and the other is in the Morgan Library. Unfortunately it is impossible to distinguish between them in the single reference in the Ellis valuation or in the two references in MS catalogue (2).] —  ISTC (is00816000). — MS catalogue (2), no. 103, and MS catalogue (2), no. 903, p. 81 (both with one X beside the title).

Digital version: BSB.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Carletti and D’Andrea (15th century)

The following titles are bound together:

[1] Angelo Carletti [Angelus de Clavasio]. Summa angelica de casibus conscientiae. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 28 August 1488.

References: ISTC (ia00717000). — Poynter, no. 53.

Digital version: ULD.

[2] D’Andrea, Giovanni. Super arboribus consanguinitatis et affinitatis. [Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, 1473.]

Illustrated. Incomplete.

References: ISTC (ia00598000). — Poynter, no. 48.

Digital version: BSB.

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Provenance: Morris. — Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, no. 366 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 10s. — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB Incunabula 1.c.18 (SR)).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Priscian — Opera (1488)

Priscian [Priscianus]. Opera. Venice: Georgius Arrivabenus, 4 December 1488.

Provenance: Library at Breslau. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 969 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £2 18s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB Incunabula 4.e.11 (SR)).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 40 (£1). — ISTC (ip00968000). — Poynter, no. 463.

Digital version: BSB.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Laxdaela-Saga (1826)

Laxdaela-Saga. Copenhagen: sumtibus Legati Magnæani ex typographeo H. F. Popp, 1826.

Presentation inscription from Morris to Forman.

Provenance: Morris. — Harry Buxton Forman — William F. Gable. — Elizabeth Wade White. — Beinecke Library, Yale University (BEIN 1976 59).

Digital versions: Google. — HathiTrust.

¶ Laxdaela-Saga (1826)

Laxdaela-Saga. Copenhagen: sumtibus Legati Magnaeani ex typographeo H. F. Popp, 1826.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 899 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 1s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Walter Emery. — Beinecke Library, Yale University (BEIN 2004 +138).

Digital versions: Google. — HathiTrust.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 386.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Caorsin — Rhodiorum historia (1496)

 

Caorsin, Guilelmus. Rhodiorum historia (1480-89). Ulm: Johann Reger, 24 October 1496.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Horace Walpole. — William H. Crawford. — Crawford sale, Sotheby, 14 March 1891, lot 593 (sold to Leighton). — Gennadius. — Gennadius sale (sold for £30). — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 340 (sold to Hazlitt for £31 10s.). — George Dunn. — Unlocated.

Reference: ISTC (ic00113000).

Digital version: ULD.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Rainerius de Pisis — Pantheologia (1473)

Rainerius de Pisis. Pantheologia, sive Summa universae theologiae. Ed. Jacobus Florentinus. 2 vols. Nuremberg: Johann Sensenschmidt and Heinrich Kefer, 8 April 1473.

Morris owned only the second volume.

Provenance: Conventus Ratisbonensis. — Sale of the convent’s books, 1876. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 949 (sold to Leighton for £3 18s.). — George Dunn. — Dunn sale, Sotheby, 9–10 December 1915. — Daniel Francois Schleurleer. — Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands (KW 169 A 25).

References: ISTC (ir00005000). — MEI.

Digital version: BSB.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Pope Gregory I — Moralia (1471)

Gregory I, Pope [Gregorius Magnus]. Moralia, sive Expositio in Job. Nuremberg: [Johann Sensenschmidt], 11 September 1471.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 566 (sold to Proctor for £10). — Robert Proctor. — Unlocated.

Provenance: Capucins, Englebert, Bavaria. — James Elwin Millard. — Millard sale, Sotheby, 25 November 1890. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 566 (sold to Proctor for £10). — Robert Proctor. — J. Pierpont Morgan (purchased from Bernard Quaritch, £13, June 1910). — Morgan Library (ChL392).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 26b (£3). — ISTC (ig00427000). — MS catalogue (2), no. 929, p. 94 (with an X beside the title).

Digital version: BSB.

BSB

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Biblia (1474?)

Biblia. 2 vols. Augsburg: Gunther Zainer, [not after 1474].

Morris wrote two extended commentaries on the book (quoted here from the Perry catalogue) on the flyleaf and some loose sheets of paper:

[Rough notes, with this comment, probably by Sydney Cockerell: “This note was not completed. A draft from an earlier note, on two small sheets, is laid in the volume, the following portions of which were not repeated on the flyleaf Note.”] “The historiated initials stand quite by themselves and are very interesting: the little subjects seem to be designed by Zeiner’s earliest artist, as he may be called, the draughtsman of the Golden Legend. They are good, though ruder than those of his second draughtsman, and tell the story well. The frame work of the letters is throughout very vigorous and highly decorative and logical in design; and altogether these initials must be amongst the best decoration of the early German printed books. The smaller initials are of Gunther Zeiner’s beautiful alphabet, and are used in most of his books. Their design is obviously an adaptation of the ornamental pen letters of this date. Big capitals in red occur throughout the book, and have the appearance of being stamped & not printed. ¶ The colouring has been at first good & judicious, and except for a little emerald green all done with transparent pigments; of which the lake is a particularly pleasant colour. The first initial (to Jerome’s letter) is painted extra carefully & has a very pretty illuminated ornament in the margin of it. ¶ This book has the stamp of the Buxheim monastery with which Gunther Zeiner was in close relation; and he is known to have presented a copy of this very book to it.”

[Note on flyleaf, dated January 1891] “This Augsburg bible printed by Gunther Zainer about 1474 does not seem to have received the attention which it deserves as a woodcut book. Apart from its type, which for a large book must be considered as the best of all black letter, it is a very remarkable book as a work of art. Its handsome ‘blooming letters’ are to be found in many Augsburg books and some printed at Ulm. They are translations in black and white of the illuminators’ pen letters current at the time and a little earlier; but which more or less kept up a still earlier tradition. Of all woodcut letters without figures, these of Gunther Zainer’s are the boldest and best designed, and add very much to the beauty of the books in which they appear. ¶ The third order of capitals which are all red and slightly floriated, are done in printer’s ink and seem to be stamped on the page after the printing: for their ink is uniformly bright, whereas the red printing at the heads of books is often sullied: since it was done at the same time as the black text by wiping away the black ink, and inking the type again with red—which being done insufficiently blackened the red in some cases almost to a brown. See Blades on this point. ¶ But the speciality of this bible is the series of historiated initials at the head of each book, which are so good and so ‘distinguished’ that they render it an important woodcut book. It is true that the figure work in them is inferior in drawing and general interest to the work of the designer of the cuts in the Aesop, the ‘de Claris Mulieribus’ or the Speculum Vitæ Humanæ: they are in fact rather illuminators’ pictures than woodcut designers’. The letters however are in general effect remarkably good; and, especially in the pattern-work, quite reach the high water-mark of 15th century design, and I consider them on the whole the best historiated Capitals of the period. ¶ These letters in this copy are coloured; and it would seem that this was done before it left the bookseller’s shelf; if it was not done in the printer’s workshop. The copy at the Brit: Mus: [British Museum] is coloured systematically just as this is; except that in this copy some one has come after the first colourist with a vermillion brush (vermillion is not used in the original systematic colouring) and has added that strong colour in some of the letters, by no means to their improvement; though, I take it, this blunder was was committed soon after the volume left the printer’s. For the rest I think an unprejudiced person will think that the colouring of the pre-vermillion very much improves the letters; this can easily be tested by reference to one initial, that of the Psalter, which has somehow been left uncoloured. ¶ I give as excellent examples of these letters the following: [. . .]”

Provenance: Carthusian monastery at Buxheim, Germany (presentation copy from Zainer). — Morris (acquired by January 1891). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 180 (sold to Quaritch for £80). — Marsden Perry. — Perry sale, American Art Association, 11 March 1956, lot 32. — John Saks. — Christie (New York), 1 October 1980, lot 78 (sold for $60,000). — Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas (Incun 1475 B471z).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 2b, no. 22 (£80). — ISTC (ib00627000). — Marsden Perry List, pp. 33–34.

Digital version: BSB (vol. 1; vol. 2).

BSB

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Jochumsson — Ljóðmaeli (1884)

Jochumsson, Matthías. Ljóðmaeli. Reykjavík: á forlag Kristjáns Ó. Þorgrímssonar, 1884.

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 809.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

¶ Worsaae — Primeval antiquities of Denmark (1849)

Worsaae, Jens Jacob Asmussen. The primeval antiquities of Denmark . . . translated, and applied to the illustration of similar remains in England. Trans. William J. Thoms. London: John Henry Parker, 1849.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 243 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 10s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated. [The Wellcome does own a copy of this book, but it lacks Morris’s book label, and we therefore assume that it was not his.]

Digital copy: HathiTrust.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Unger — Alexanders saga (1848)

Unger, Carl Richard, ed. Alexanders saga. Christiania: Feilberg & Landmark Forlag, 1848.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 846 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for £2 4s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Beinecke Library, Yale University (2000 1525).

Digital version: HathiTrust.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Four sagas (1847–60)

The following titles (all published in the series Nordiske oldskrifter) are bound together. (The first is listed in the Sotheby 1898 catalogue; the other three titles are presumably among the “and others” in lot 846.)

[1] Gislason, Konrad, ed. Sagan af Helga ok Grími Droplaugarsonum. Copenhagen: Brødrene Berlings Bogtrykkeri, 1847.

Digital version: Google.

[2] Hervar saga ok Heiđreks konungs. Copenhagen: Brødrene Berlings Bogtrykkeri, 1847.

[3] Friðriksson, G. Sagan af Þorđi Hređu. Copenhagen: Berlingske Bogtrykkeri, 1848.

[4] Vigfússon, Guðbrandr. Barđarsaga Snoefellsass. Copenhagen: Berlingske Bogtrykkeri ved N. H. Stendrup, 1860.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

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Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 846 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for £2 4s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Beinecke Library, Yale University (2000 1525 [Gislason; Friðriksson; Vigfússon; Hervar saga ok Heiđreks konungs has no separate entry).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Palmieri — Liber de temporibus (1469) [MS]

Palmieri, Matteo (Matheus Palmerius). Liber de temporibus.

Illuminated manuscript. Italy, probably Florence, 1469. 100 leaves.

With loosely inserted notes by Crawford and Sydney Cockerell.

Provenance: Guglielmo Libri. — Libri sale, Sotheby, 11 August 1859, lot 1926. — W. H. Crawford. — Crawford sale, Sotheby, 20 March 1891, lot 2330 (sold to Leighton). — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 930 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £7). — Wellcome Library (MS.591 ).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 5, no. 67 (£7). — Schoenberg (SDBM_MS_6897).

Digital version: Wellcome Library.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Catalogue of Bibles (1891)

A catalogue of Bibles, liturgies, church history, and theology. London: Bernard Quaritch, December 1891.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898 (unknown lot; sold to Henry Wellcome). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores Hist. 2 (RMR) ZFGB.B).

Digital version: Wellcome Library (Morris copy).

¶ Cicero — De officiis (1480)

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De officiis. Venice: Filippo di Pietro, 8 May 1480.

This book was not sold by Sotheby in 1898, probably because Morris had disposed of it before his death. However, he owned another copy which did in fact appear in the Sotheby sale.

References: ISTC (ic00589000). — MS catalogue (2), no. 694 (with an X beside it).

Digital version: BSB.

¶ Cicero (1480) and Festus (1478?)

The following titles are bound together:

[1] Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De officiis. Venice: Filippo di Pietro, 8 May 1480.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 34 (£1). — ISTC (ic00589000).

Digital version: BSB.

[2] Festus, Sextus Pompeius. De verborum significatione. [Venice: printer of Pomponius Mela, c. 1478.]

The Sotheby catalogue does not specify the edition, and MS catalogue (2) records it as “c. 1480”; we believe this is the most likely candidate.

Reference: ISTC (if00145000).

Digital version: BSB.

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Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 362 (sold to Proctor for £1 1s.). — Robert Proctor. — Phillips, 13 November 1997, lot 258 (£2,400 [$4,053]). — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 948 (with one X beside the title).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Aquinas (1480) and Rolewinck (1479)

The following titles are bound together (an image of the binding can be seen in the Bookbindings on Incunables database):

[1] Aquinas, Thomas, Saint. Super quarto libro Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 2 February 1480.

Illustrated. The date 1484 in the Sotheby 1898 catalogue is an error.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 7b, no. 75 (£15). — ISTC (it00170000).

Digital version: BSB.

[2] Rolevinck, Werner [Werner Rolewinck]. Fasciculus temporum. [Cologne]: Heinrich Quentell, 1479.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 6, no. 74 (see Aquinas above). — ISTC (ir00259000).

Digital version: BSB.

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Provenance: Library of the Augustinians of Eberhardsklausen. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1168 (sold to Waring for £12). — Waring. — George Dunn. — Dunn sale, Sotheby, 6 February 1914, lot 3122. — Ottto Volbehr. — Library of Congress (Incun. 1480 .T48) [purchased 1930].

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ L’hystoire & cronique du noble et vaillant Baudouyn (16th cent.)

L’hystoire & cronique du noble et vaillant Baudouyn, conte de Flandres, lequel espousa le diable. Paris: Jehan Bonfons, n.d. [mid-16th century].

Illustrated.

Provenance: William H. Crawford. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 81 (sold to Leighton for £7 15s.). — Charles Butler. — Eduardo J. Bullrich. — Royal Library of Belgium (Bibliothèque royale / Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Brussels) (LP 14.237 A (RP)).

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 20b, no. 260 (£5 15s.).

Digital version: Gallica.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Appiano etc.

Eight titles bound together in one volume when they were in Morris’s hands; the individual works were subsequently rebound by W. J. Mansell for Michael Tomkinson.

[1] Appiano, Costanzo [Constantius Applanus]. Soliloquia de humani arbitrii libertate et potestate. Cremona: Carolus de Darleriis, 4 October 1496.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 31 (5s.). — ISTC (ia00933000).

Digital version: BSB.

[2] Dio, Chrysostom [Dio Chrysostomus]. [De Troia non capta:] Ilii captivitatem non fuisse. Trans. Franciscus Philelpus and ed. Nicolaus Lucarus. Cremona: Bernardinus de Misintis and Caesar Parmensis, 22 July 1492.

With a bibliographical note by Cockerell (describing all the titles) tipped in.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 35 (10s). — ISTC (id00206000).

Digital version: BSB.

[3] Dio, Chrysostom [Dio Chrysostomus]. De regno. Trans. Publius Gregorius Tiphernas and ed. Pius III (Franciscus de Piccolomineis). Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 1493.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 35 (no price given). — ISTC (id00205000).

Digital version: BSB.

[4] Bosso, Matteo [Matthaeus Bossus]. De instituendo sapientia animo. Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 6 November 1495.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 33 (no price given). — ISTC (ib01043000).

Digital version: BSB.

[5] Bosso, Matteo [Matthaeus Bossus]. Sermo in Jesu Christi passionem. Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 11 November 1495.

Reference: ISTC (ib01047000).

[6] Beroaldo, Filippo [Philippus Beroaldus]. De felicitate. Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 1 April 1495.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 32 (10s.) [bound with Maffei below]. — ISTC (ib00482000).

Digital version: BSB.

[7] Maffei, Celso [Celsus Maffeus]. Dissuasoria ne christiani principes ecclesiasticos usurpent census. Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 27 June 1494.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 32 (10s.) [bound with Beroaldo above]. —  ISTC (im00015000).

Digital version: BSB.

[8] Sabellico [Marcus Antonius Sabellicus]. De Venetis magistratibus. Venice: Antonius de Strata, de Cremona, 19 January 1488/89.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 41 (£1). — ISTC (is00009000).

Digital version: BSB.

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Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 66 (sold to Tregaskis for £1 16s.). — Michael Tomkinson. — Sir Charles Thomas-Stanford. — Huntington Library. (The individual call numbers at the Huntington—all Rare Books—are as follows: [1] 89923; [2] 100604; [4] 85511 (bound with no. 5); [5] 85512 (bound with no. 4); [7] 101129 (unbound in pamphlet folder). Nos. 3, 6, and 8 are not at the Huntington and are unlocated.)

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Durand etc.

The following titles are bound together:

[1] Durand, Guillaume [Guillelmus Duranti]. Speculum judiciale. Ed. Franciscus Moneliensis. Padua: Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt, 1478–79.

Morris owned the second section (dated 21 November 1478).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 35 (10s.). — ISTC (id00448000). — Thatcher 1, no. 579.

Digital version: BSB.

[2] Battista, da Sambagio [Baptista de Sancto Blasio]. Varii tractatus juridici. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 1481.

Morris owned the fourth of five parts (dated 31 May 1481).

References: ISTC (is00126000). — Thacher 1, no. 284.

Digital version: BSB.

[3] Cipolla, Bartolomeo [Bartholomaeus Cepolla]. De simulatione contractuum. Pavia: Leonardus Gerla, 15 February 1498.

References: ISTC (ic00400000). — Thacher 1, no. 634.

Digital version: BSB.

[4] Militio, Albricus de. De testibus. Pavia: Leonardus Gerla, 15 March 1497.

“Attributed in this edition to Albericus de Rosate” (ISTC).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 41 (no price). — ISTC (im00578000). — Thacher 1, no. 635.

Digital version: BSB.

[5] San Giorgio, Giacomino da [Jacobinus, de Sancto Georgio]. Aureus et in pratica perutilis totus et singularis tractatus feudorum et homagiorum. Milan: Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler, 1503.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 36 (no price given).

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Provenance: Henry Howard, Duke of Norfolk. — Royal Society of London (gift from Howard). — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 402 (sold to Quaritch for £3 3s.). — John Boyd Thacher. — Library of Congress (Incun. 1478.F74 Thacher Coll. Copy 2).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Macrobius etc.

The following titles are bound together:

[1] Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius. In Somnium Scipionis M. Tullii Ciceronis libri duo, et saturnaliorum lib. VII. Paris: Jodocus Ascensius Badius, 1524.

Illustrated.

Digital version: Gallica.

[2] Velleius Paterculus. Historiae Romanae duo volumina. Basel: Johann Froben, 1520.

Illustrated.

[3] Herodotus. Historiarum patris Musae. Paris: Jodocus Ascensius Badius and Johann Parvus, August 1528.

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Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 779 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 6s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — J. R. Abbey. — Abbey sale, Sotheby, 21 June 1965, part 1, lot 546 (sold for £78 [?]). — Unlocated.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 30 (£1) [for the volume].

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