Montaigion, Anatole de. Recueil général et complet des fabliaux des XIIIe et XIVe siècles imprimés ou inédits. 2 vols. Paris: Librairie des bibliophiles, 1872.
Provenance: Morris. — Jane Morris. — May Morris. — Mary Lobb. — Lobb sale 1, lot 54 (part; sold for £1 12s.). — Unlocated.
September 26, 2014
Bidpai. Directorium humanae vitae. Trans. Johannes de Capua. [Strassburg: Johann Prüss, c. 1489.]
Provenance: Royal Library of Munich (duplicate). — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 190 (sold to Pickering for £18 10s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: ISTC (ij00268000).
Digital version: VdI.
Sotheby 1898:
March 30, 2014
North, Sir Thomas, trans. The earliest English version of the fables of Bidpai: “The morall philosophie of Doni”. Ed. Joseph Jacobs. London: David Nutt, 1888.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 43 (part; sold to Dobell for 15s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 618.
Digital version: Google.
Sotheby 1898:
March 28, 2014
Jefferies, Richard. Wood magic: a fable. 2 vols. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1881.
It is not clear which edition of the book Morris owned.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 250 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 4s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 724.
Digital versions: Google (vol. 2). — Internet Archive (vol. 1).
Sotheby 1898:
March 27, 2014
Pilpay. The Anvár-i Suhailí or the lights of Canopus, being the Persian version of the fables of Pilpay, or the book “Kalílah and Damnah”. Trans. Edward B. Eastwick. Hertford: printed and published by Stephen Austin, bookseller to the East-India College, 1854.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 810 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for £1). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.
References: MS catalogue (1), fol.16 (£1). — MS catalogue (2), no. 293.
Digital version: Google.
Sotheby 1898:
The Library of William Morris 
October 1, 2015
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