Early English Text Society: miscellaneous publications.
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Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 245 (sold to Maggs for £7 10s.). — Unlocated.
Sotheby 1898:
May 7, 2014
Beowulf: autotypes of the unique Cotton MS. Vitellius A XV in the British Museum. London: published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1882.
With a transliteration and notes by Julius Zupitza.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 245 (part; sold to Maggs for £7 10s.). — Unlocated.
Digital version: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
May 7, 2014
Caxton, William, trans. Caxton’s Blanchardyn and Eglantine, c. 1489. Ed. Leon Kellner. London: published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1890.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 245 (part; sold to Maggs for £7 10s.). — Unlocated.
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Sotheby 1898:
May 7, 2014
Caxton, William, trans. Caxton’s Eneydos, 1490, Englisht from the French Livre des Eneydes, 1483. Ed. W. T. Culley and Frederick J. Furnivall. London: published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1890.
With a sketch of the old French Roman d’Énéas by Salverda de Grave.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 245 (part; sold to Maggs for £7 10s.). — Unlocated.
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Sotheby 1898:
May 7, 2014
Caxton, William, trans. The English Charlemagne romances: the right plesaunt and goodly historie of the foure sonnes of Aymon. Ed. Octavia Richardson. London: published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1885.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 245 (part; sold to Maggs for £7 10s.). — Unlocated.
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Sotheby 1898:
May 7, 2014
Bourchier, Sir John, Lord Berners, trans. The English Charlemagne romances: the boke of Duke Huon of Burdeaux. 2 vols. London: published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1882–87.
With an introduction by S. L. Lee.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 245 (part; sold to Maggs for £7 10s.). — Unlocated.
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Sotheby 1898:
May 6, 2014
Deimling, Hermann, ed. The Chester plays. London: published for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1892–1916.
Morris owned only the first volume.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 245 (part; sold to Maggs for £7 10s.). — Unlocated.
Digital version: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
May 6, 2014
Smith, Joshua Toulmin, ed. English gilds: the original ordinances of more than one hundred early English gilds, together with ye olde usages of ye cite of Winchestre, the ordinances of Worcester, the office of the Mayor of Bristol, the ceremony of the manor of Tettenhall-Regis. London: published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1870.
“With an introduction and glossary, etc., by his daughter, Lucy Toulmin Smith, and a preliminary essay in five parts, on the history and development of gilds, by Lujo Brentano.”
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 245 (part; sold to Maggs for £7 10s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 534.
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Sotheby 1898:
The Library of William Morris 
May 7, 2014
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