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.
November 14, 2017
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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.
Sotheby 1898:
June 12, 2017
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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.
Sotheby 1898:
May 29, 2017
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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.
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].
Sotheby 1898:
May 23, 2017
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Vecellio, Cesare. Gioiello della corona per le nobili et virtuose donne. Libro quarto. Venice: appresso Cesare Vecellio, 1601.
Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 522.
Digital version: Gallica.
May 23, 2017
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Kropotkine, Pierre. Paroles d’un révolté. Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, [1885].
Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 521.
Digital version: Gallica.
May 23, 2017
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Pajot des Charmes, C. L’art du blanchiment des toiles, fils et cotons de tout genre, rendu plus facile et plus général, au moyen des nouvelles découvertes. Paris: A. J. Dugour et Durand, 1798.
Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 517.
Digital version: Gallica.
October 5, 2016
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Cavantou, J. B. Nouvelle nomenclature chimique, d’après la classification adoptée par M. Thénard. Paris: Crochard, 1816.
Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no, 719.
Digital version: Gallica.
October 1, 2015
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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 30, 2015
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Molière. Oeuvres. Ed. Antoine Bret. 6 vols. Paris: Compagnie des libraires associés, 1773.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Jane Morris. — May Morris. — Mary Lobb. — Lobb sale 1, lot 60 (sold for 14s.). — Unlocated.
Digital version: Gallica.
June 4, 2015
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Molière. Oeuvres. Ed. Antoine Bret. 6 vols. Paris: Compagnie des libraires associés, 1773.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. —Sotheby 1898, lot 646 (sold to Leighton for £2 4s.). — Unlocated.
References: MS catalogue (1), fol. 8r. — MS catalogue (2), no. 279.
Digital version: Gallica.
Sotheby 1898:
May 11, 2015
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L’hystoire de preux & vaillant Chevalier Galien Rethore filz au conte Olivier de Vienne per de France. Paris: Jehan Bonfons, [1550].
Illustrated.
Provenance: Joseph-Antoine Crozat. — Crozat sale, Paris, 1751, lot 2017. — Jean-Louis, Baron d’Heiss. — d’Heiss sale, Paris, 22 July 1782. — Richard Heber. — Heber sale, part IX, Sotheby, 11 April 1836, lot 1274. — G. Gancia Rare Books, Brighton. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 462 (sold to Heppenstal for £10 10s.). — Maurice Henry Hewlett. — Maurice Desgeorge. — Silvain S. Brunschwig. — Brunschwig sale, Geneva, 28 March 1955, lot 413. — Morgan Library (198075) [purchased from Konstantinopel Rare Books, September 2018].
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 19b, no. 259a (£12).
Digital version: Gallica.
Sotheby 1898:
March 12, 2015
Fine, Orance [Fineus Orontius]. De solaribus horologiis et quadrantibus, libri quatuor. Paris: Gulielmum Cauellat, [1560].
Illustrated. With bibliographical note by Cockerell.
Provenance: John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare [?]. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 298 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 5s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / B 2286/B).
References: MS catalogue (1), fol. 7 (£4 6s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 430 (with three X’s beside the title).
Note in MS catalogue (1): “pretty ornaments.”
Digital version: Gallica [illustrations only].
Sotheby 1898:
February 6, 2015
Le premier [second, tiers] volume de Lancelot du lac. 3 vols. in 1. Paris: Michel and Philippe Le Noir, 1513–20.
Illustrated. Three catalogue clippings about the book tipped in at back of book.
Provenance: Adolph Audinet. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 747 (sold to Hayley for £13). — Hayley. — Robert Steele. — May Morris [gift from Steele?]. — Oxford University [bequest of May Morris]. — Society of Antiquaries of London (Kelmscott Manor).
Reference: Ellis valuation fol. 19b, no. 245 (£30).
Digital version: Gallica.
Sotheby 1898:
December 19, 2014
Hucher, Eugène, ed. Le Saint-Graal, ou le Joseph d’Arimathie. 3 vols. Le Mans and Paris: E. Monnoyer, 1875.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1004 (sold to Voynich for £1 16s.). — Unlocated.
Digital version: Gallica.
Sotheby 1898:
November 6, 2014
Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin, Freiherr von. Icones plantarum rariorum. 3 vols. Vienna: Wappler [etc.], 1781–95.
Illustrated. (“Plates coloured by hand,” according to Jenny Morris’s note.)
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 725 (sold to Quaritch for £31). — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 872.
Digital version: Gallica (vols. 1–2).
Sotheby 1898:
October 23, 2014
Chrétien, de Troyes, trans. Tresplaisante et recreative hystoire du trespreulx et vaillant Cheuallier Perceual le galloys. Paris: Jehan Longis, Jehan Sainct Denis, and G. Du Pré, [1530].
Illustrated.
Provenance: Nicolas Yemeniz. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 941 (sold to Quaritch for £79). — John B. Stetson. — Stetson sale, 17–18 April 1935. — Morgan Library (E1 12D) [purchased 1935 via A. S. W. Rosenbach].
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 18b, no. 242 (£80). — MS catalogue (2), no. 920, p. 83.
Digital version: Gallica.
Sotheby 1898:
October 22, 2014
Oger le Dannois duc de Dannemarche qui fut l’un des douze pers de France lequel avec le secours et ayde du roy Charlemaigne chassa les payens hors de Rome et remist le pape en son siege et fut longtemps en Faerie puis revint comme vous pourrez lire cy apres. Paris: Nicolas Bonfons, 1583.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 693 (sold to Leighton for £4 18s.). — Unlocated.
References: MS catalogue (1), fol. 7v (£1 10s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 420 (with three X’s beside the title).
Note in MS catalogue (1): “wood-cuts.”
Digital version: Gallica.
Sotheby 1898:
October 16, 2014
Belon, Pierre. L’ histoire de la nature des oyseaux, avec leurs descriptions, & naïfs portraicts retirez du naturel: escrite en sept livres. Paris: Gilles Corrozet, 1555.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 159 (sold to Ellis for £2 2s.). — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 20b, no. 267 (£1 10s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 671 (with three X’s next to it).
Digital version: Gallica.
Sotheby 1898:
October 7, 2014
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].
Sotheby 1898:
October 1, 2014
Martinet, François-Nicolas. Histoire des oiseaux peints dans tous leurs aspects apparens et sensibles. 5 vols. Paris: privately printed, 1787.
Illustrated. Issued in 17 parts.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 674 (sold to Maggs for £5 5s.). — Unlocated.
Digital version: Gallica.
Sotheby 1898:
September 29, 2014
Sacy, Silvestre de. Chrestomathie arabe. 3 vols. Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1806.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 407 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for 10s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 773.
Digital version: Gallica.
Sotheby 1898:
August 27, 2014
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.
Sotheby 1898:
July 24, 2014
Holtrop, Johannes Willem, ed. Monuments typographiques des Pays-Bas au quinzième siècle. The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1868.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 603 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £3 18s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.
Digital version: Gallica
Sotheby 1898:
July 19, 2014
Lacroix, Paul. [pseud. of P. L. Jacob]. Les arts au moyen âge et à l’époque de la renaissance. 2nd ed. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1869.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 613 (sold to Henry Wellcome for 12s.).— Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores mons. M4386).
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 452.
Digital version: Gallica.
Sotheby 1898:
July 14, 2014
Aimoin, de Fleury [Monachus Benedictus Annonius]. De regum procerumque: Francorum origine gestisque clarissimusque ad Philippum Augustum: libri quinque nunc primum impressi. Paris: Joannis Parvi & Ascensius, 1514.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 123 (sold to Heppenstal for 10s.). — Catalogue of Old and Rare Books, Pickering & Chatto, 1900, no. 1023 (£2 2s.). — Edith Rockefeller McCormick. — McCormick sale, American Art Association–Anderson Galleries, 23 February 1934, lot 2 [HathiTrust]. — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 30 (£1). — MS catalogue (2), no. 944, p. 87 [where it is dated as 1513].
Digital version: Gallica.
Sotheby 1898:
May 15, 2014
Coste, Pascal-Xavier. Monuments modernes de la Perse, mesurés, dessinés et décrits. Paris: A. Morel, 1867.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 377 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £2 10s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 330.
Digital version: Gallica.
Sotheby 1898: 
May 1, 2014
de Lincy, Le Roux. Essai sur les fables indiennes et sur leur introduction en Europe. Paris: Techener, Libraire, 1838.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 235 (part; sold to Tregaskis for 13s.). — Tregaskis catalogue, 18 September 1899, no. 241 (7s. 6d.). — Unlocated.
Digital version: Gallica.
Sotheby 1898:
May 1, 2014
Marx, Karl. Le capital. Trans. Joseph Roy. Paris: Maurice Lachatre et Cie, [1872–75].
The first French edition, issued in fascicules. After Morris’s death, Cockerell persuaded T. J. Cobden-Sanderson to write the following note in the book: “This book—Le Capital—was bound and tooled for William Morris in my first workshop in Maiden Lane, 1884, and finished the 9th October, and the pattern on its sides and back is the second of my making. The tools were second-hand and bought—and used—at haphazard, but the binding and the tooling pleased William Morris, and his pleasure was my own great delight. In memoriam I write this the 24th February, 1897. T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. ¶ I should like to add that the book was his own, & before it came to me to be bound had been worn to loose sections by his own constant study of it. T.J. C.-S.” (Journals, 1:385).
In a letter to Cobden-Sanderson, 25 October 1894, Morris praised the binding as “quite beautiful & successful” (Letters, 2:333).
The entry from the Sotheby 1898 catalogue (see below) is pasted on an endpaper with this note by Cobden-Sanderson: “Cat. of sale of Lib. of W.M. at Sotheby’s Dec. 8, 1898. T.J. C.-S.” A further inscription adds: “bought at the Morris Sale Dec. 8th, 1898 and presented to Mrs. Cobden-Sanderson by T. G. Bain Sunday Dec. 11th/98.”
Book label of Estelle Doheny.
Provenance: Morris (purchased in Paris, 1883). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 676 (sold to Bain for £52). — Bain (booksellers). — Annie Cobden-Sanderson (gift from T. G. Bain, December 1898). — Richard Cobden-Sanderson. — Sotheby, 19 December 1932, lot 31. — Alice Millard (bookseller). — Estelle Doheny. — Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library, St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo, Calif. — Christie (New York), 19 May 1989, lot 2235 [Estelle Doheny collection, part 6] — J. Paul Getty (Wormsley Library, private collection, England) — Mark Getty (Wormsley Library).
References: Fletcher, H. George, ed. The Wormsley Library: A Personal Selection by Sir Paul Getty, K.B.E. London: published for the Wormsley Library by Maggs Bros. Ltd., in co-operation with the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1999. (See pp. 200–01.) — MS catalogue (2), no. 194. — Sanderson, Thomas J. Journals. 2 vols. London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1926. (See 1:185, 200–03, 384–85, 393.) — Tidcombe, Marianne. The Bookbindings of T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. London: British Library, 1984. (See pp. 60–61.)
Digital version: Gallica.
Sotheby 1898:
April 18, 2014
Falcot, P., ed. Traité encyclopédique et méthodique de la fabrication des tissus. 3 vols. 2nd ed. Elbeuf (sur Seine): privately printed, 1852.
Illustrated. Morris seems not to have had the third volume (Atlas des planches d’armures et plates).
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 296 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £3). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.
References: MS catalogue (1), fol. 16v (£3 10s.). —MS catalogue (2), no. 199.
Digital version: Gallica.
Sotheby 1898:
April 9, 2014
Bourgoin, Jules. Les arts Arabes: architecture, menuiserie, bronzes, plafonds, revêtements, marbres, pavements, vitraux, etc. Paris: A. Morel, 1873.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 319 (sold to Rimell for £3 18s.). — Unlocated.
Digital version: Gallica.
Sotheby 1898:
The Library of William Morris 
February 13, 2018
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