¶ Nourry— Le grant kalendrier des bergiers (1510)

Nourry, Claude. Le grant kalendrier des bergiers. Lyon: [Jean Bachelier?], 8 April 1510.

Illustrated. The book once had a note by Morris tipped in that cannot now be located. His book label has also gone missing, probably in a relatively recent rebinding.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 15b, no. 191 (£21). — MS catalogue (2), no. 860 (with two X’s beside the title).

Provenance: Nicolas Yemeniz. — Yemeniz sale, Paris, Hôtel Druot, May 1867, lot 959. — Ambroise Firmin-Didot. — Quaritch catalogue, 31 March 1890 (£16 16s). — Morris (purchased from Quaritch, 31 March 1890, for £16 16s.). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 255 (sold to B. F. Stevens for £44). — Robert Hoe. — Huntington Library (138664).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Cicero — Tusculanae Quaestiones (c. 1470) [MS]

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Tusculanae quaestiones.

Illuminated manuscript. Italy, c. 1470. 84 leaves.

With bibliographical notes by Sydney Cockerell.

Provenance: Erizzo family (Venice). — Marsilio Papafava. — Sotheby, 23 May, 1889, lot 52. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 365 (sold to B. F. Stevens for £32). — Robert Hoe. — Hoe sale, part 1, Anderson Galleries, December 1911, lot 2122 (sold to G. D. Smith for $275). — Henry E. Huntington. — Huntington Library (HM 1031).

References: de Ricci, 1:81, no. HM 1031. — Digital Scriptorium. — Ellis valuation, fol. 3, no. 36 (£10). — Schoenberg (SDBM_MS_5948).

Digital images: Huntington Library.

Huntington Library

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Virgil — Georgics and Aeneid (early 15th century) [MS]

Virgil. Georgics [and] Aeneid.

Illuminated manuscript. Italy, perhaps Florence, early 15th century. 206 leaves.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1194 (sold to Heppenstal for £164). — Ross C. Winans. — Huntington Library (HM 1036) [purchased from Winans Collection, January 1918].

References: de Ricci, 1:82, no. HM 1036. — Digital Scriptorium. — Dutschke, 1:301–03. — Ellis valuation, fol. 6, no. 90 (£150). — Schoenberg (SDBM_MS_21157 and SDBM_MS_9604).

Digital images: Digital Scriptorium.

Digital Scriptorium

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Appiano etc.

Eight titles bound together in one volume when they were in Morris’s hands; the individual works were subsequently rebound by W. J. Mansell for Michael Tomkinson.

[1] Appiano, Costanzo [Constantius Applanus]. Soliloquia de humani arbitrii libertate et potestate. Cremona: Carolus de Darleriis, 4 October 1496.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 31 (5s.). — ISTC (ia00933000).

Digital version: BSB.

[2] Dio, Chrysostom [Dio Chrysostomus]. [De Troia non capta:] Ilii captivitatem non fuisse. Trans. Franciscus Philelpus and ed. Nicolaus Lucarus. Cremona: Bernardinus de Misintis and Caesar Parmensis, 22 July 1492.

With a bibliographical note by Cockerell (describing all the titles) tipped in.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 35 (10s). — ISTC (id00206000).

Digital version: BSB.

[3] Dio, Chrysostom [Dio Chrysostomus]. De regno. Trans. Publius Gregorius Tiphernas and ed. Pius III (Franciscus de Piccolomineis). Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 1493.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 35 (no price given). — ISTC (id00205000).

Digital version: BSB.

[4] Bosso, Matteo [Matthaeus Bossus]. De instituendo sapientia animo. Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 6 November 1495.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 33 (no price given). — ISTC (ib01043000).

Digital version: BSB.

[5] Bosso, Matteo [Matthaeus Bossus]. Sermo in Jesu Christi passionem. Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 11 November 1495.

Reference: ISTC (ib01047000).

[6] Beroaldo, Filippo [Philippus Beroaldus]. De felicitate. Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 1 April 1495.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 32 (10s.) [bound with Maffei below]. — ISTC (ib00482000).

Digital version: BSB.

[7] Maffei, Celso [Celsus Maffeus]. Dissuasoria ne christiani principes ecclesiasticos usurpent census. Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 27 June 1494.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 32 (10s.) [bound with Beroaldo above]. —  ISTC (im00015000).

Digital version: BSB.

[8] Sabellico [Marcus Antonius Sabellicus]. De Venetis magistratibus. Venice: Antonius de Strata, de Cremona, 19 January 1488/89.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 41 (£1). — ISTC (is00009000).

Digital version: BSB.

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Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 66 (sold to Tregaskis for £1 16s.). — Michael Tomkinson. — Sir Charles Thomas-Stanford. — Huntington Library. (The individual call numbers at the Huntington—all Rare Books—are as follows: [1] 89923; [2] 100604; [4] 85511 (bound with no. 5); [5] 85512 (bound with no. 4); [7] 101129 (unbound in pamphlet folder). Nos. 3, 6, and 8 are not at the Huntington and are unlocated.)

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Tennyson — Maud (1893)

Tennyson, Alfred. Maud: a monodrama. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893.

Marked “Press room copy.”

Provenance: Morris. — ABI Books, Santa Barbara. — Sanford and Helen Berger (purchased from ABI Books, February 1985, for $675). — Huntington Library (607647).

Reference: Bibliography, A17.

¶ 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

¶ Vegio and St. Basil

[1] Vegio, Maffeo [Maphaeus Vegius]. Philalethes. [Nuremberg: Johann Müller, c. 1474–75.]

References: Fairfax Murray Catalogue (German) 2, no. 458. — ISTC (iv00114000).

Digital version: BSB.

[2] Basil, Saint [Basilius Magnus]. De legendis antiquorum libris. [Nuremberg : Johann Müller, c. 1474.]

References: Fairfax Murray Catalogue (German) 2, no. 421. — ISTC (ib00272000).

Digital version: BSB.

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Inscribed “to Charles Fairfax Murray from William Morris 1895.”.

Provenance: Benedictbeuren Abbey near Munich. — Morris. — Charles Fairfax Murray (gift from Morris, 1895). — Sotheby, 18 July 1919 (sold to Quaritch for £11). — Volbehr. — Huntington Library (84743) and Huntington Library (84744) [purchased from Volbehr, 21 March 1925].

¶ Suetonius (1506)

Suetonius. Suetonius Tranquillus cum Philippi Beroaldi et Marci Antonii Sabellici commentariis. Venice: Giovanni Rosso, 8 January 1506.

Illustrated.

Provenance: [Two partially illegible names of early owners.] — Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland. — Sunderland sales, 1881–83, lot 11842 (sold to Quaritch for £5). — Quaritch catalogue, 1884, item 18925 (£7 10s.). — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1143 (sold to Thomson for £1 16s.). — A. Bernardes de Oliveira. — Huntington Library (607669).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Gilfillan —The poetical works (1855)

Gilfillan, Rev. George, ed. The poetical works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett. Edinburgh: James Nichol; London: James Nisbet & Co.; Dublin: W. Robertson, 1855.

Inscription: “W. Thomas Wentworth Fitzwilliam, with the best wishes of his sincere friend, William Morris. On his leaving Eton. Easter 1865 [see below].”

Provenance: William Morris. — William T. W. Fitzwilliam (gift from Morris, 1865) — Huntington Library (607661).

Photographed by WSP at the Huntington Library.

¶ Pliny — Historia naturalis (1476)

Pliny, the Elder [Plinius]. Historia naturalis. Trans. Cristoforo Landino. Venice: Nicolaus Jenson, 1476.

Laid in are two photographs by Emery Walker of passages from this book, used by Morris as an aid in designing his Golden type. A photograph of the first building that housed the Kelmscott Press is tipped in.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 957 (sold to Cockerell for £7 5s.). — T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. — Alice and George Millard. — Huntington Library (236180).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 40 (£3). — ISTC (ip00801000). — MS catalogue (2), no. 528 (with two X’s beside the title).

Digital version: BSB.

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Sotheby 1898:

 

¶ Dialogus creaturarum moralisatus (1480)

Dialogus creaturarum moralisatus. Gouda: Gerard Leeu, 3 June 1480.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Ross Winans. — Morris. — Sotheby 1898, lot 391 (sold to Waring for £46). — Charles Fairfax Murray. — Fairfax Murray sale, Christie, 10 December 1917, lot 143. — Huntington Library (103180).

Reference: ISTC (id00159100).

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Sotheby catalogue:

 

¶ Humphreys — Illuminated illustrations of Froissart (1844)

Humphreys, H. N., ed. Illuminated illustrations of Froissart, selected from the MS. in the British Museum [and in the Bibliothèque Royale, Paris, and from other sources]. 2 vols. London: William Smith, 1844.

Presentation copy to “Louisa Macdonald from her friend William Morris.”

Provenance: Morris. — Louisa MacDonald (afterwards Baldwin) [gift from Morris]. — Kenneth A. Lohf. —Sanford and Helen Berger. — Huntington Library (607666) [British Museum]; and Huntington Library (607667) [Bibliothèque Royale].

Photographed by WSP at the Huntington Library.

¶ 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.

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¶ Froissart — Chronicles (1852)

Froissart, Jean. Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining countries. Trans. Thomas Johnes. 2 vols. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1852.

Inscription in both volumes: “William Morris Exeter Coll: Oxon to Louisa Macdonald, April 3rd 1857.”

Provenance: Morris. — Louisa MacDonald (afterwards Baldwin). — Kenneth A. Lohf. — Sanford and Helen Berger. — Huntington Library (607664) [purchased from the Bergers].

Photographed by WSP at the Huntington Library.

¶ Legend of “The Briar Rose” (1890)

The legend of “The Briar Rose”: a series of pictures painted by E. Burne Jones, A.R.A. London: Thomas Agnew & Sons’ Galleries, 1890.

Inscribed “William Morris for H Buxton Forman.” Brief guide, with unsigned introduction, to an exhibition of the Burne-Jones paintings at the Agnew Galleries. A photograph of Morris has been tipped in, as well as a leaf of Morris’s manuscript draft of the first quatrain associated with the paintings.

Provenance: Morris. — Harry Buxton Foreman. — Maurice Buxton Forman. — Sanford and Helen Berger. — Huntington Library (607385) [purchased from the Bergers].

¶ Caine — Restoration of ancient buildings (1879)

[Caine, T. H. Hall, ed.] The restoration of ancient buildings: report of the conference, Royal Institution, Liverpool. Liverpool: Liverpool Notes and Queries Society, 1879.

Inscribed “William Morris with T. H. Hall Caine’s Compts.” Includes “A few words on restoration” by Morris.

Provenance: T. H. Hall Caine. —Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot (part; sold to Tregaskis for £4). — Tregaskis catalogue, 2 April 1900, no. 480 (21s.). — W. M. Bixby. — Bixby sale, Anderson Galleries (New York), 26 February–1 March 1917. — Huntington Library (83822).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Vincent, of Beauvais — Speculum morale (1485)

Vincent, of Beauvais [Vincentius Bellovacensis]. Speculum morale. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 6 February 1485.

Sanford Berger believed that the circular floral designs around the border of the binding (see below) were adapted by Morris on his pigskin binding for the Kelmscott Chaucer (Bibliography, A40).

Provenance: Morris. — Robert Steele. — Oswald Weigel Antiquariat & Auction-Institut (Leipzig). — Sanford and Helen Berger. — Huntington Library (99036) [purchased from the Bergers]

Reference: ISTC (iv00290000).

Digital version: BSB.

Photographed by WSP at the Huntington Library.

¶ Burns — Poetical works (1808)

Burns, Robert. The poetical works of Robert Burns. 2 vols. Alnwick: printed by William Davison, 1808.

Wood-engravings by Thomas Bewick. Signature of Morris, 3 September 1892, in each volume.

Provenance: Morris. — Sessler [dealer]. — Huntington Library (18474) [purchased from Sessler].

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¶ Bueil — Le livre de Jouvencel (1523)

Bueil, Jean de, comte de Sancerre. Le livre de Jouvencel. Paris: Philippe Le Noir et Michel Le Noir, 20 April 1523.

Illustrated.

Provenance: William H. Crawford. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 499 (sold to Dawson for £3 10s.) — Maurice Hewlett. — Huntington Library (112883).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 18b, no. 235 (£4). — MS catalogue (2), no. 961, p. 89.

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1898 catalogue:

¶ Curtius Rufus — Historiae Alexandri Magni (1503?)

Curtius Rufus, Quintus. Historiae Alexandri Magni. Trans. Vasco de Lucena. Paris: Antoine Vérard, [after July 1503].

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Otto H. F. Volbehr (dealer). — Huntington Library (100579) [purchased from Volbehr, 23 March 1925].

References: ISTC (ic01005000). — MEI.

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¶ St. Bernard, of Clairvaux — Sermones (1475)

Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint [Bernardus Claravallensis]. Sermones de tempore et de sanctis et de diversis. Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 14 April 1475.

Morris’s small Kelmscott Press printer’s device (Bibliography, p. xxiii, no. 1) is used as bookplate [see below].

Provenance: Ross Winans. —Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 165 (sold to Pickering for £6 5s.). — Huntington Library (84805).

Reference: ISTC (ib00436000).

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Sotheby 1898:

 

¶ 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.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ St. Jerome — Vitae sanctorum patrum (c. 1478–79)

Jerome, Saint [Hieronymus]. Vitae sanctorum patrum, sive Vitas patrum. Ulm: Johann Zainer, [c. 1478–79].

Illustrated. With bibliographical note by Cockerell and Morris letter tipped in. In the letter, 23 February [1891], Morris is negotiating to buy the book from J. & J. Leighton and remarks, “There [are] about 120 Cuts besides repetitions but they are rude. Perhaps your correspondent would take less for it when he finds that it is imperfect” (published in Collected Letters, 3:276–77).

Provenance: J. & J. Leighton (sold to Morris, early 1891). — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 593 (sold to Heppenstal for £1 8s.). — George D. Smith. — Huntington Library (103513) [purchased from Smith, 1916].

Reference: ISTC (ih00200000).

Digital version: BSB.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ St. Albertus, Magnus — Passio magistralis domini nostri Jesu Christ (1506)

Albertus, Magnus, Saint. Passio magistralis domini nostri Jesu Christi ex diversis sanctorum ecclesie doctorum sententiis postillata cum glosa interlineari. Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 1506.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 857 (sold to Ellis for £2 6s.). — John A. Saks. — Christie (New York), lot 83 (sold for $550). — Sanford and Helen Berger [purchased from E. K. Schreiber, 1988, for $1,900]. — Huntington Library (607658) [purchased from the Bergers].

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 25b (no price given).

Digital version: BSB.

Photographed by WSP at the Huntington Library.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Dodoens — New herball (1595)

Dodoens, Rembert. A new herball, or historie of plants. Trans. Henry Lyte. London: Edmund Bollifant, 1595.

Extra-illustrated.

Provenance: Anthony Westwood. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 286 (sold to Pickering for £3 10s.). — Huntington Library (20921) [purchased from Clarence Saunders Brigham, March 1921].

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 49b (no price). — ESTC (S109768).

Digital version: EEBO.

Photographed by WSP at the Huntington Library.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Alchabitius — Libellus isagogicus (1485?)

Alchabitius. Libellus isagogicus. Trans. Johannes Hispalensis. [Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, before 4 November 1485.]

Illustrated. With bibliographical note by Cockerell tipped in.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 54 (sold to Maggs for £2 12s). — C. Lindsay Ricketts. — Burndy Library (gift of Bern Dibner). — Huntington Library (717863).

References: ISTC (ia00363000). — MS catalogue (2), no. 770 (with two X’s beside the title).

Digital version: BSB.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Boethius — De consolatione philosophie (1485)

Boethius. De consolatione philosophie. Ghent: Arend de Keysere, 3 May 1485.

Dutch and Latin.

Provenance: “Ad vsum Fr[atr]is Joannis Nicolai Canonici Regularis, professi in Corssendoncg[?]” (inscription on front flyleaf). — Jacques Rosenthal (bookseller, Munich). — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 311 (sold to Chadwick for £7 15s.). — Sir Charles Thomas-Stanford. — Rosenbach (dealer). — Henry E. Huntington. —  Huntington Library (85153).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 22 (£6). — ISTC (ib00812000). — MEI.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Apuleius — Dell’ asino d’oro (1567)

Apuleius. Dell’ asino d’oro. Trans. Angelo Fiorenzuola. Venezia: Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, 1567.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 12 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 10s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — John A. Saks. — Christie (New York), 1 October 1980, lot 133 (sold for $180). — Heritage Bookshop (sold to Sanford and Helen Berger for $451.95). — Sanford and Helen Berger. —Huntington Library (607657) [purchased from the Bergers].

Reference: MS catalogue (1), fol. 7 (£10s.) [dated 1557]. — MS catalogue (2), no. 5 (with two X’s beside the title).

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

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ St. Augustine — De civitate Dei (1468?)

Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo [Saint Augustinus]. De civitate Dei. [Strassburg: Johann Mentelin, not after 1468].

Bibliographical note by Cockerell tipped in.

Provenance: B. Pirckheimer (with bookplate by Dürer). — William H. Crawford. — Royal Society. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 143 (sold to Tregaskis for £23). — Ross Winans. — Huntington Library (104600).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 27b (£18). — ISTC (ia01239000).

Digital version: BSB.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ St. Albertus Magnus — Mariale (1474?)

Albertus Magnus, Saint. Mariale. [Basel: Michael Wenssler, not after 1474.]

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 114 (sold to Dobson for £1 16s.). — George Dunn. — Dunn sale, Sotheby, 22 November 1917, lot 1749 (sold to Quaritch for £11). — Vollbehr. —  Huntington Library (102158) [purchased from Vollbehr, 7 May 1925].

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 24b (£2 10s.). — ISTC (ia00273000).

Digital version: ULD.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Burton — Anatomy of melancholy (1660)

Burton, Robert [pseud. Democritus Junior]. The anatomy of melancholy, what it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & severall cures of it. 7th ed. London: printed [by R.W.] for H. Cripps [and Lodowick Lloyd] and to be sold by Cripps, [Andrew Crook], and E. Wallis, 1660.

Morris book label and signature “William Morris | Red House | Upton | Kent.”

Provenance: Morris (purchased for £1 16s.). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 333. — Huntington Library (Rare books 113976).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 48b (£1 10s.). — ESTC (R483187). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 11. — MS catalogue (2), no. 368 (with three X’s next to it).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Booth — Address to the public (1787?)

Booth, Joseph. An address to the public, on the polygraphic art, or the copying or multiplying pictures, in oil colours, by a chymical and mechanical process, the invention of Mr. Joseph Booth, portrait painter. London: printed at the Logographic Press and sold by T. Cadell, Robson and Clarke, and J. Sewell, [1787?].

The book was been rebound, probably in the twentieth century, and has a bookplate [see below] not known in any of Morris’s other books. The title, however, is one that certainly would have interested Morris, and we are therefore including it here as a doubtful case.

Provenance: Morris (?). — R. & A. Petrilla. — Huntington Library (4956520) [purchased from Petrilla, 12 May 1995].

Reference: ESTC (T20491).

Digital version: ECCO.

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¶ Morris — Textile fabrics (1884)

Morris, William. Textile fabrics: a lecture delivered in the lecture room of the exhibition, July 11th, 1884. London: International Health Exhibition and the Society of Arts, 1884.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 650 (part; sold to Tregaskis for £4). — Huntington Library (28912). [A second copy of the pamphlet, also with Morris’s book label, is in the Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department.]

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Baker — Chronicle of the kings of England (1670)

Baker, Sir Richard. A chronicle of the kings of England, from the time of the Romans government unto the death of King James. London: George Sawbridge and Thomas Williams, 1670.

“Faithfully collected out of authors ancient and modern; and digested into a method. By Sir Richard Baker Knight. Whereunto is added, the reign of King Charles the First, and the first thirteen years of His sacred Majesty, King Charles the Second, that now reigneth. In which are many material affairs of state never before published; and likewise the most remarkable occurrences relating to His Majesties most happy and wonderful restauration, by the prudent conduct, under God, of George late Duke of Albemarle, captain general of all His Majesties armies; as they were extracted out of His Excellencies own papers, and the journals and memorials of those imploy’d in the most important and secret transactions of that time. All which additions are revised in this fifth impression, and freed from many errors and mistakes of the former editions.”

Signature of Morris, Red House, Upton, Kent.

Provenance: Morris. — Sotheby 1898, lot 153 (sold to Vigers for £1 12s.). — Percy Lubbock. — H. M. Fletcher. — Sanford and Helen Berger (purchased from Fletcher for £150, 21 June 1985). — Huntington Library (Rare Books 607668).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 48b (5s.). — ESTC (R26672). — MS catalogue (2), no. 474 (where the date is erroneously given as 1770).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Blind — Heather on fire (1886)

Blind, Mathilde. The heather on fire: a tale of the Highland Clearances. London: Walter Scott, 1886.

Inscribed “To William Morris | with sincere admiration | Mathilde Blind.”

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1022 (part; sold to Tregaskis for £2 11s.). — William and Victoria Dailey, Los Angeles (sold to Sanford and Helen Berger, November 1981, for $185). — The Bergers. — Huntington Library (607662).

Digital versions: HathiTrust.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Scott — Tales, anecdotes, and letters (1800)

Scott, Jonathan, trans. Tales, anecdotes, and letters translated from the Arabic and Persian. Shrewsbury: printed by J. and W. Eddowes for T. Cadell, Jr., and W. Davies, London, 1800.

Provenance: Morris (purchased for 7s. 6d.). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 15 (part; sold to Quaritch for £1 2s.). — Carl Edelheim. — Sanford and Helen Berger. — Huntington Library (607660) [purchased from the Bergers].

Reference: ESTC (T84502). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 13. — MS catalogue (2), no. 112.

Digital version: HathiTrust.

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Sotheby 1898: