¶ Gilles — Les Chroniques et annales de France (1525)

Gilles, Nicole. Les Chroniques et annales de France. Paris: Galliot-Dupré, 1525

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (1), fol. 6v (£2 10s.).

Digital version: Google Books.

¶ Silvestre — Collection de poésies, romans, chroniques (1839–45)

Silvestre, L. C., and others, eds. Collection de poésies, romans, chroniques. 25 vols. Paris: chez Silvestre, 1838–58.

Illustrated. Morris owned five of the volumes, all in Old or Middle French: (1) Miracle de nostre dame d’ Berthe fẽme du roy Pepin (1839). (2) Le mystere de la vie et hystoire de monseigneur sainct Martin lequel fut Archeuesque de Tours (1841). (3) Miracle de nostre dame de la marquise de la Gaudine (1841). (4) La Marche, Olivier de. Le chevalier delibere (1842). (5) Listoyre de Pierre de Provence et de la belle Maguelonne (1845).

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 217 (sold to Bain for £33). — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (1), fol. 8 (£2 10s.).

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¶ Bulliard — Herbier de la France (1780–93)

Bulliard, Pierre. Herbier de la France: ou, collection complette des plantes indigènes de ce royaume, avec leurs détails anatomiques, leurs propriétés, et leurs usages en medecine. 4 vols. Paris: l’Auteur, 1780–[93].

Illustrated. MS catalogue (2) (see below) identifies this as “Herbier de la France. 1 vol. (plates coloured by hand)”; the volume that Morris owned was probably vol. 2 (flowering plants).

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no, 411.

¶ Firdausi — Shahnama (1621) [MS]

Firdausi, Abu’l-Qasim. Shahnama.

Illuminated manuscript. Northern Iran, perhaps Astarabad, 1621. 440 leaves.

Signature of “Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | 1900.”

Provenance: Chinese ownership. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 529 (sold to Quaritch for £47). — Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. — Fitzwilliam Museum (MS. 311) [bequest from Blunt, 1922].

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 3, no. 41 (£40). — Fitzwilliam’s Illuminated Manuscripts. — MS catalogue (2), no. 32. — Wormald, 1:301–03.

Fitzwilliam Museum

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Lemaire de Belges — Illustrations de Gaule et singularitez de Troye (1533)

Lemaire de Belges, Jean. Le premier [-tiers] livre des illustrations de Gaule et singularitez de Troye. 3 vols. Paris: Ambroise Girault libraire, 1533.

Illustrated. The second and third volumes are entitled Le traicte de la difference des scismes et des concilles de leglise and L’epistre du roy a Hector de Troye respectively, but the three volumes seem also to have been issued separately.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 661 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £3 16s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — H. P. Kraus. — Kraus inventory sale, Sotheby (New York), 4 December 2003, lot 85 (sold for $2,160). — Unlocated.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 20b, no. 264 (£2).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Bourges — Description des monuments de Paris (1878)

Bourges, Isaac de. Description des monuments de Paris. Ed. Valentin Dufour. Paris: A. Quantin, 1878.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 559.

¶ Polain — Les vrayes chroniques (1850)

Polain, M. “Les vrayes chroniques.” Archives historiques et littéraires du nord de la France et du midi de la Belgique 1 (1 January 1850): 268.

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 864.

¶ Bax — Story of the French revolution (1892)

Bax, E. Belfort. The story of the French revolution. London: Swann Sonnenschein, 1892.

Note on endpaper: “This book is from the library of William Morris and was bought at the sale of his collection at Sotheby’s. B. Dobell.”

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898 (lot unknown). — Ralph Burton (U.K.).

¶ Handbook for travellers in France (1854)

A handbook for travellers in France. London: John Murray 1854.

This went through many editions; it is not clear which edition Morris owned.

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 810.

¶ Paris — La littérature française au moyen âge (1888)

Paris, Gaston Bruno Paulin. La littérature française au moyen âge (XIe-XIV siècle). Paris: Hachette, 1888.

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 744.

¶ Midoux — Etude sur les filigranes des papiers (1868)

Midoux, Etienne, and Auguste Matton. Etude sur les filigranes des papiers, employés en France aux XIV et XV siecles, accompanée de 600 dessins lithographiés. Paris: Dumoulin et Claudin, 1868.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 640 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £2). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (History of Medicine YHDG.36).

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¶ Joanne — Géographie du département de la Somme (1886)

Joanne, Adolphe Laurent. Géographie du département de la Somme. Paris: Hachette, 1886.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett (?). — Sotheby 1898 (?). — Tregaskis catalogue, 18 September 1899, no. 254 (part; 2s.). — Unlocated.

¶ Joanne — Géographie du département de l’Aisne (1885)

Joanne, Adolphe Laurent. Géographie du département de l’Aisne. Paris: Hachette, 1885.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett (?). — Sotheby 1898 (?). — Tregaskis catalogue, 18 September 1899, no. 254 (part; 2s.). — Unlocated.

¶ Joanne — Géographie du département de l’Oise (1885)

Joanne, Adolphe Laurent. Géographie du département de l’Oise. Paris: Hachette, 1885.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett (?). — Sotheby 1898 (?). — Tregaskis catalogue, 18 September 1899, no. 254 (part; 3s. 6d.). — Unlocated.

¶ Thierry-Poux — Premiers monumens de l’imprimerie en France (1890)

Thierry-Poux, Olgar. Premiers monumens de l’imprimerie en France au XVe siècle. Paris: Hachette, 1890.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1162 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £3 12s.). — Henry Wellcome. — — Wellcome Library (Closed stores Hist. G. O/S 2 42).

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¶ Verneilh — L’architecture byzantine en France (1852)

Verneilh, Félix de. L’architecture byzantine en France. Paris: Victor Didron, 1852.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1088 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for £1). — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 197.

Digital version: HathiTrust [1851 edition].

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¶ Bulliard — Plantes médicinales de la France (1780)

Bulliard, Pierre. Plantes médicinales de la France. [Paris, 1780.]

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Jane Morris. — May Morris. — Mary Lobb. — Lobb sale 1, lot 65 (sold for £1 3s.). — Unlocated.

¶ Méloizes — Vitraux du XIIIe siècle (1892)

Méloizes, Albert, le marquis des Méloizes. Vitraux du XIIIe siècle de la cathédrale de Bourges. Paris: Société française d’archéologie, 1892.

Illustrated. Part of a series.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 789 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £3 3s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.

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¶ Chroniques de Louis XI (c. 1496)

Chroniques de Louis XI. [Lyon: Michel Topié and Jacques Heremberck, c. 1496]

Provenance: Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL1578).

References: ISTC (ic00485000). — Morgan Catalogue 3, no. 608.

¶ Duthi — Tramp’s wallet (1858)

Duthi, William. A tramp’s wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France. London: Darton & Co., 1858.

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 585.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

¶ Redding — Modern wines (1860)

Redding, Cyrus. A history and description of modern wines. 3rd ed. London: H. G. Bohn, 1860.

Jenny Morris’s entry for this title is very abbreviated: the book in question might possibly be Redding’s French wines and vineyards, and the way to find them (London: Houston and Wright, 1860).

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 590.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

¶ Viollet-le-Duc — Dictionnaire raisonné (1854–68)

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel. Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle. 10 vols. Paris: B. Bance, 1854–68.

Morris signature: “William Morris | Exeter Coll: Oxon. | June 15th 1855.” Only two volumes have so far been located: vol. 1 is in the Huntington Library, and vol. 2 is in the Library of Congress. The second volume bears this inscription: “From Library of S. C. Cockerell 21/– | 1 Mai 1897.”

Provenance: [Vol. 1] Morris. — Sanford and Helen Berger. — Huntington Library (607663) [purchased from the Bergers]. — [Vol. 2] Morris. — Sydney C. Cockerell — Library of Congress (NA1041 .V7 copy 3, Rare Books).

Digital copy: HathiTrust.

Photographed by WSP at the Huntington Library.

¶ Serres — Commentaries (1574–76)

Serres, Jean de. The three partes of commentaries, containing the whole and perfect discourse of the civill warres of Fraunce, under the raignes of Henry the second, Frances the second, and of Charles the ninth. Trans. Thomas Tymme. London: Frances Coldocke, 24 August 1574.

Morris also owned the fourth part (printed by Henry Binneman for Humphry Toy), separately published in 1576, and his copy consisted of all four parts bound in a single volume.

Provenance: Charles Sutton. — Walter Thomas Wallace. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 877 (sold to Pickering for £3 18s.). — Catalogue of Old and Rare Books, Pickering & Chatto, 1900, no. 1110 (£7 7s.). — Edwin N. Lapham. — Lapham sale, Anderson Auction Co. (New York), 1–3 December 1908, lot 1050 (sold for $21). — Huntington Library (69408 pt.1) [parts 1–3]. — Huntington Library (69408 pt.2) [part 4].

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 49b (no price). — ESTC (S4897) [parts 1–3]. — ESTC (S117191) [part 4]

Digital version: EEBO.

 Photographed by WSP at the Huntington Library.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Chroniques de Normandie (1487)

Chroniques de Normandie. Rouen: Guillaume Le Talleur, May 1487.

Provenance: Charles de Croy, 4th duc d’Arschot. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — J. Pierpont Morgan. — Morgan Library (ChL1604).

References: ISTC (ic00487000). — Morgan Catalogue 3, no. 624.

¶ Linas — Anciens vêtements sacerdotaux (1860–63)

Linas, Charles de. Anciens vêtements sacerdotaux et anciens tissus conservés en France. Series 1–3. Paris: Librairie archéologique de Didron, 1860–63.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 622 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 18s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 482.

Digital version: Gallica.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Griggs — Portfolio of . . . art (1881–91)

Griggs, W., comp. Portfolio of . . . art. London: [South Kensington Museum], 1881–91.

A series issued periodically with slightly varying titles. Morris owned the following: Indian art (12 of 27 numbers), French art (10 of 12 numbers), Spanish art (3 of 16 numbers), Swedish art (4 of 5 numbers), and two others.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 968 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 5s.). — Unlocated.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Gaguin — Les croniques de France (1516)

Gaguin, Robert. Les croniques de France. Paris: Jean Petit, 8 May 1516.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 539 (sold to Breslauer for £4 6s.). — Unlocated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 19b, no. 255 (£4 10s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 976.

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¶ Petit — Architectural studies in France (1854)

Petit, Rev. John Louis. Architectural studies in France. London: George Bell, 1854.

Illustrations by the author and P. H. Delamotte. Signed “William Morris, Exeter Coll., Oxon.”

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 859 (sold to Tregaskis for £6 10s.). — Tregaskis catalogue, 18 September 1899, no. 24 (10 guineas). — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 453.

Digital versions: HathiTrust.

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¶ O’Shaughnessy — Lays of France (1872)

O’Shaughnessy, Arthur William Edgar. Lays of France. London: Ellis & Green, 1872.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 801 (part; sold to Tregaskis for £2 5s.). — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 234.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Guessard — Les anciens poètes de la France (1858–70)

Guessard, François, ed. Les anciens poètes de la France. 10 vols. Paris: F. Viewweg, 1858–70.

Morris owned 6 of the volumes.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 5 (sold to Maggs for 14s.). — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 624.

Digital version: Gallica [various volumes].

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Michel — Recherches (1852–54)

Michel, Francisque. Recherches sur le commerce, la fabrication et l’usage des étoffes de soie, d’or et d’argent, et autres tissues précieux en Occident, principalement en France, pendant le moyen âge. 2 vols. Paris: de Crapelet, 1852–54.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 681 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £7 10s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.

References: MS catalogue (1), fol. 8 (£2). —MS catalogue (2), no. 142.

Digital version: Gallica.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Platina — Genealogies (1519)

Platina. Les genealogies faitz et gestes des sainctz peres papes, empereurs et roys de France. Jean Beaufils. Paris: printed by Pierre Vidoue for Galliot du Pre, 1519

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 953 (sold to Maggs for £2 14s.). — E. Ph. Goldschmidt. — Charles Thomas-Stanford. — Teodoro Becu. — Newberry Library (VAULT Case folio BX953 .P5214 1519).

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 39 (10s.).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Chassant — Dictionnaire des abréviations (1884)

Chassant, Alphonse Antoine Louis. Dictionnaire des abréviations latines et françaises, usitées dans les inscriptions lapidaires et métalliques, les manuscrits et les chartes du moyen âge, précédé d’une explication de la méthode brachygraphique employée par les graveurs en lettres, les scribes et les copistes du Ve au XVIe siècle. Paris: J. Martin, 1884.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 2 (part; sold to Quaritch for 10s.). — Unlocated.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Silvestre — Universal palaeography (1850)

Silvestre, Joseph Balthaszar. Universal palaeography, or fac-similes of writings of all nations and periods, copied from the most celebrated and authentic manuscripts in the libraries and archives of France, Italy, Germany, and England. Trans. Frederic Madden. 2 vols. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1122 (sold to Young for £7). — Unlocated.

Digital versions: Google (vol. 2). — HathiTrust.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Kropotkine — Russian and French prisons (1887)

Kropotkine, Petr. Russian and French prisons. London: Ward and Downey, 1887.

“With a plan of the St. Petersburg fortress.”

Provenance: Morris. —Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 825 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for 14s.).— Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 181.

Digital versions: HathiTrust.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Cotman — Architectural antiquities of Normandy (1822)

Cotman, John Sell. Architectural antiquities of Normandy, accompanied by historical and descriptive notices. London: John and Arthur Arch, 1822.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 378 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 6s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Ottley — Collection of prints (1828)

Ottley, William Young. A collection of one hundred and twenty-nine fac-similes of scarce and curious prints, by the early masters of the Italian, German, and Flemish schools, illustrative of the history of engraving. London: published for the proprietor and sold by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Molteno, and Colnaghi and Co., 1828.

Introduction is “Some account of the early use of wood-engraving in Europe, and of the invention of chalcography” by Maso Finiguerra.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 700 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £2). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Clutton — Illustrations of mediaeval architecture (1856)

Clutton, Henry. Illustrations of mediaeval architecture in France from the accession of Charles VI to the demise of Louis XII. London: Nattali and Bond, 1856.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 368 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 18s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 342.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Comte — Tapisserie de Bayeux (1879)

Comte, Jules. La tapisserie de Bayeux. Reproduction d’après nature en 79 planches phototypographiques, avec un texte historique, descriptif et critique. Paris, 1879.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 83 (sold to Bain for £2). — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 525.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Swinburne — Ode on the proclamation of the French Republic (1870)

Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Ode on the proclamation of the French Republic, September 4th, 1870. London: F. S. Ellis, 1870.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1021 (sold to Ellis for 12s.). — Unlocated.

Digital versions: HathiTrust.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Lissagaray — History of the commune of 1871 (1886)

Lissagaray. History of the commune of 1871. Trans. Eleanor Marx Aveling. London: Reeves and Turner, 1886.

Presentation copy to Morris from Marx Aveling.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 624 (sold to Tregaskis for £1 2s.). — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 572.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

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