¶ 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:

¶ 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.

¶ 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:

¶ 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.

¶ 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.

¶ 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.

¶ Pérez de Valencia — Expositiones in psalmos Davidi (1512)

Pérez de Valencia, Jaime [Jacobus Perez de Valentia]. Expositiones in psalmos Davidi. Lyon: Bernard Rosier and Jean Thomas for Etienne Gueynard, 29 October and 15 November 1512.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 858 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £3). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Wellcome auctions (1), lot 232 (sold to Eiseman for £2). — H. P. Kraus catalogue 66 (1954?), no. 516 ($135) [HathiTrust] . — Unlocated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 16b, no. 201 (10s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 941.

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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:

¶ 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:

¶ Homer — Iliad (1841)

Homer. The first six books of Homer’s Iliad, with an interpaged translation. London: printed for Taylor and Walton, 1841.

The MS catalogue (2) identifies this only as an edition of the Iliad published in London in 1841; we think this is the most likely candidate, though the MS catalogue also specifies that it is two volumes. The second volume may refer to the second edition of The first six books of Virgil’s Aeneid, with an interpaged translation, issued in a similar format by the same publisher in 1841.

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 567.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

¶ 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.

Signed “W. Morris Red House, Upton, Kent” on half-title, and bookplate of Edward Burne-Jones.

Provenance: Morris. — Edward Burne-Jones. — J. W. and Margaret Mackail. — Mark Samuels Lasner. — Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library.

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

Digital version: HathiTrust.

¶ Rossetti — Early Italian poets (1861)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, trans. The early Italian poets from Ciullo d’Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100–1200–1300) in the original metres. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1861.

Inscribed “To William Morris from his friend D G Rossetti Xmas 1861.”

Provenance: D. G. Rossetti. — Morris. — Mark Samuels Lasner. — Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

¶ Steele — Huon of Bordeaux (1895)

Steele, Robert, ed. Huon of Bordeaux, done into English by Sir John Bourchier, Lord Berners, and now retold by Robert Steele. London: George Allen, 1895.

Inscribed “William Morris from Robert Steele.” Illustrated by Fred Mason.

Provenance: Robert Steele. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 491 (sold to Tregaskis for 17s.). — Edwin N. Lapham. — Lapham’s sale, Anderson Auction Co., 1–3 December 1908, lot 962 (sold for $11) [HathiTrust] . — John Quinn. — Mark Samuels Lasner. — Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library.

Digital versions: Google. — HathiTrust.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Rogers — Poems (1812)

Rogers, Samuel. Poems. London: printed by T. Bensley for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812.

Illustrated by Thomas Stothard. Substitute title-page, drawn in pen and ink. The Huntington Library believes the book was owned by Morris, but we are not convinced, because the bookplate (reproduced below) does not resemble anything that Morris is known to have used. Nevertheless, we are listing it here for possible further investigation.

Provenance: E. E. Baker (?). — Morris (?). — John Fletcher Hurst. — Hurst sale, part 2, Anderson Auction Company (New York), 1905, lot 3277 [HathiTrust]. — Huntington Library (23971).

Photo by WSP

¶ Morris — Roots of the mountains (1890)

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

Large paper.

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 771.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

¶ Aelian — Varia historia (1701)

Aelian [Claudius Aelianus]. Varia historia. 2 vols. Leiden: Johannem du Vivie and Isaacum Severinum, 1701.

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 766.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

¶ Worsaae, etc.

The following titles are bound together:

[1] Worsaae, J. J. A. Afbildninger fra det Kongelige Museum for Nordiske Oldsager i Kjöbenhavn. Copenhagen: Kittendorff & Aagaard, 1854.

Illustrated.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

[2] Die Sammlungen des germanischen Museums. Nuremberg: Germanisches Museum, 1868.

Illustrated.

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Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 653 (sold to Henry Wellcome for 8s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Collection of sagas (1848–49)

The following titles are bound together in four volumes, with the binder’s title “Nordiske oldskrifter saga”:

[1] Vápnfirðinga saga. Copenhagen: Brødrene Berlings Bogtrykkeri, 1848.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

[2] Tvaer sögur af Gísla Súrssyn. Copenhagen: Brødrene Berlings Bogtrykkeri, 1849.

Digital version: Google.

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Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1002 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 10s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Walter Emery. — Beinecke Library, Yale University (2000 2112).

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 276.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Guðmundsson — Íslendínga sögur (1829–30)

Guðmundsson, Þorgeir, and Þorsteinn Helgason, eds. Íslendínga sögur. 2 vols. Copenhagen: S. L. Moller, 1829–30.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 841 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 12s.). Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Walter Emery. — Beinecke Library, Yale University (2000 2121).

Digital version: HathiTrust.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 884.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Skírnir (1827– )

Skírnir; tídindi hins Ískenzka Bókmentafèlags. Reykjavík : Íslenska Bokmentafélag, 1827– .

Morris owned 1852–1875 (not including 1873).

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 450 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 5s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 713 (where it is dated 1867–70).

Digital version: HathiTrust.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Friemar — Preceptorium Nicolai de lira (1510?)

Friemar, Heinrich von. Preceptorium Nicolai de lira. Paris: Jehan Petit, [c. 1510].

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 627 (sold to Henry Wellcome for 19s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Fornmanna sögur (1825–37)

Fornmanna sögur. 12 vols. Copenhagen: Prentaðar hjá H. F. Popp [etc.], 1825–37.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 842 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £2). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Gilchrist — Life of Blake (1863)

Gilchrist, Alexander. Life of Blake, “Pictor ignotus”. 2 vols. London and Cambridge: Macmillan, 1863.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Jane Morris (?). — May Morris. — Mary Lobb. — Lobb sale 1, lot 424 (part; sold for 16s.). — Unlocated.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

¶ Chasseneux — Catalogus gloriae mundi (1529)

Chasseneux, Barthélemy de. Catalogus gloriae mundi, laudes, honores, excellentias, ac praeeminentias omnium fere statuum. 12 parts in 1 vol. Lyon: per Dionysium de Harsy, 1529.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 351 (sold to Breslauer for £1 10s.). — Unlocated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 16b, no. 204 (£1 10s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 989.

Digital copy: HathiTrust.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Hissey — On the box seat (1886)

Hissey, James John. On the box seat from London to Land’s End. London: R. Bentley & Son, 1886.

(We strongly suspect that this is fraudulent, but we include it here with that warning.)

Illustrated. On the front pastedown is an ink-brush design for a printer’s device: a floriated monogram “WM” within a shield surrounded by a ribbon reading “At the Kelmscott Press by me William Morris.” A dealer’s note describes this as “from William Morris’s library, and contains pasted inside cover William Morris’s own pen-and-ink drawing of his bookplate.” Morris of course did not have a bookplate; the small label appearing in most of his books was created after his death by his executors.

Provenance: Morris (?). — Brown University Library (HAY KOOPMAN DA625 .H667).

Digital version: HathiTrust.

¶ Rosetti — Plictho de lárte de tentori (1540)

Rosetti, Gioanventura. Plictho de lárte de tentori che insegna tenger panni telle banbasi et sede si per lárthe magiore come per la Comune. Venice: Rampazetto, 1540.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Nicolas Yemeniz. — Yemeniz sale, Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne, 29 April–7 May 1867, lot 1099 [HathiTrust]. — Morris (purchased for £15). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 886 (sold to Hardie [?] for £7 10s.). — National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum (87.C.118).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 47 (£3). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 3 (£15). — MS catalogue (2), no. 33 (with two X’s beside the title).

Note in MS catalogue (1): “2 wood-cuts.”

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Unger — Karlamagnus saga ok kappa hans (1860)

Unger, C. R., trans. Karlamagnus saga ok kappa hans. Christiania: H. J. Jenson, 1860.

Misdated in Sotheby 1898.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 849 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £4 8s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 919.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Guðmundsson — Kormáks saga (1832)

Guðmundsson, Þorgeir, trans. and ed. Kormáks saga. Copenhagen: H. H. Thiele, 1832.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 850 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 12s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Beinecke Library, Yale University (1996 320).

Digital versions: HathiTrust.

Reference: Collector as Creator, no. 61.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Handbook for travellers in northern Italy (1858)

Handbook for travellers in northern Italy. 7th ed. 2 vols. London: John Murray, 1858.

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 730.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

¶ Hafner-Alteneck — Trachten, kunstwerke un geräthschaften (1879–1889)

Hafner-Alteneck, J. H. Trachten, kunstwerke un geräthschaften vom frühen mittelater bis ende des achtzehnten jahrhunderts. 10 vols. in 5. Frankfurt am Main: H. Keller, 1879–1889.

Illustrated. In portfolios.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 476 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £32). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores Hist. 2 ZH /HEF).

Digital version: HathiTrust.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Sagan af Niáli Þórgeirssyni (1772)

Sagan af Niáli Þórgeirssyni ok sonvm hans &c. [Copenhagen]: Prentvd i Kavpmannahavfn, af Johann Rúdolph Thiele, 1772.

Provenance: Paul Riant, le Comte de Riant — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 902 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 1s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Beinecke Library, Yale University (1997 320).

Digital version: HathiTrust.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 883.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Francis — Angling (1877)

Francis, Francis. Angling. London: “The Field” Office, 1877.

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 816.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

¶ Carlyle — Past and Present (1843)

Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843.

MS catalogue (2) does not identify the edition.

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 806.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

¶ Descriptive catalogue of the glass vessels (1878)

A descriptive catalogue of the glass vessels in the South Kensington Museum. London: printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode and sold by Chapman and Hall, 1878.

Illustrated. With an introductory notice by Alexander Nesbitt.

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 705.

Digital copies: HathiTrust.

¶ Le Fanu — Rose and the key (1871)

Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan. The rose and the key. 3 vols. London: Chapman & Hall, 1871.

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 752.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

¶ Auerbach — Lorley and Reinhard (1877)

Auerbach, Berthold. Lorley and Reinhard. Trans. Charles T. Brooks. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1877.

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 704.

Digital versions: HathiTrust.

¶ Geiler von Kaysersberg — Die brösamlin doot (1517)

Geiler von Kaysersberg, Johann. Die brösamlin doot. Strasbourg: Johann Grüninger, 1517

Provenance: Morris (purchased for £3). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 542 (sold to Quaritch for £6). — Quaritch catalogue 353 (May 1919), no. 124 (£12) [HathiTrust]. — Unlocated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 12b, no. 148 (£5). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 4 (£3). — MS catalogue (2), no. 81 (with two X’s next to it).

Note in MS catalogue (1): “wood-cuts.”

Digital version: BSB.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Aeschylus — Prometheus the fire-giver (1877)

Aeschylus. Prometheus the fire-giver: an attempted restoration of the lost first part of the Promethean trilogy. Ed. William C. Bennett. London: Chatto and Windus, 1877.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett (?). — Sotheby 1898 (?). — Tregaskis catalogue, 18 September 1899, no. 3 (5s.). — Unlocated.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

¶ Monstrelet — Chronicles (1853)

Monstrelet, Enguerrand de. The chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet . . . beginning at the year MCCCC, where that of Sir John Froissart finishes, and ending at the year MDXVL. Trans. Thomas Johnes. 2 vols. London: Henry Bohm, 1853.

Illustrated. Signed “William Morris | Exeter College: Oxon”; ownership stamp of Morris & Company, Merton Abbey, on front pastedown, title-page, and first and last pages of text.

Provenance: Morris. — Morris & Co. library. — Thomas A. Goldwasser (sold to Stanford University, 2012). — Felton Collection, Stanford University Library (D113 .M73 T6 1853) [vol. 2 only].

Digital version: HathiTrust.

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¶ Swinburne — Poems and ballads (1878)

Swinburne, Algernon C. Poems and ballads. London: John Camden Hotten, 1878.

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 230.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

¶ Swinburne — Song of Italy (1867)

Swinburne, Algernon C. A song of Italy. London: John Camden Hotten, 1867.

Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 225.

Digital versions: HathiTrust.

¶ O’Shaughnessy — Epic of women and other poems (1870)

O’Shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. An epic of women and other poems. London: John Camden Hotten, 1870.

Inscribed by O’Shaughnessy to Morris, October 1870. Illustrated.

Provenance: Arthur W. E. O’Shaughnessy. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 801 (part; sold to Tregaskis for £2 5s.). — John Quinn. — Norman Colbeck. — University of British Columbia Library (Rare Books PR10.Q4 O8 1870).

References: A Bookman’s Catalogue: The Norman Colbeck Collection of Nineteenth-Century and Edwardian Poetry and Belles Lettres (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1987), 2:623. — MS catalogue (2), no. 632.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

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Sotheby 1898: