Hildebrand, Hans. The industrial arts of Scandinavia in the pagan time. South Kensington Museum Art Handbooks. London: Chapman and Hall, 1883.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 520.
Digital version: Google.
January 17, 2017
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Antiquarisk tidsskrift. Copenhagen: J. D. Qvist.
Journal. Morris owned the volumes for 1843–60.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 446 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 11s.).— Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.
Sotheby 1898:
January 17, 2015
Egilsson, Sveinbjörn. Lexicon poëticum antiquae linguae Septentrionalis. Copenhagen: J. D. Qvist, 1860.
With Morris signature.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 249 (sold to Quaritch for £1 6s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 514.
Digital version: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
December 2, 2014
Thorpe, Benjamin, comp. Northern mythology, comprising the principal popular traditions and superstitions of Scandinavia, north Germany, and the Netherlands. 3 vols. London: Edward Lumley, 1851–52.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1029 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £2 8s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 122.
Digital versions: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
November 24, 2014
Möbius, Theodor. Catalogus librorum islandicorum et norvegicorum aetatis mediae editorum versorum illustratorum. Leipzig: apud W. Engelmannum, 1856.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 645 (sold to Henry Wellcome for 1s.). — Wellcome Library (Closed stores mons. M4281).
Digital version: Internet Archive (Morris copy).
Sotheby 1898:
November 17, 2014
Árnason, Jón. Islenzkar pjoðsögur og Æfintýri: safnað hefir. 2 vols. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1862–64.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 17 (sold to Downing for 7s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 915.
Sotheby 1898:
October 15, 2014
Grönlands historiske mindesmaerker. 3 vols. in 4. Copenhagen: Trykt i det Brünnichske bogtrykkeri, 1838–45.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 420 (sold to Sotheran for 11s.). — Unlocated.
Digital version: BSB (vol. 1). — BSB (vol. 2). — BSB (vol. 3).
Sotheby 1898:
October 3, 2014
Stephens, George. The old-northern runic monuments of Scandinavia and England, now first collected and deciphered. 3 vols. London: J. R. Smith; Copenhagen: Michaelsen and Tillge, 1866–84.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1139 (sold to Thomson for £4 17s. 6p.). — Unlocated.
Digital version: HathiTrust (vol. 3).
Sotheby 1898:
August 19, 2014
Morris, William, and Eiríkr Magnússon, trans. The saga library. 5 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1891–95.
A sixth volume was published in 1896, the year of Morris’s death.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 836 (sold to Cockerell for £1 13s.). — Unlocated.
Digital versions: Internet Archive [vol. 1]. — Internet Archive [vol. 2]. — Internet Archive [vol. 3].
Sotheby 1898:
August 14, 2014
Vigfússon, Guđbrandur, and F. York Powell, trans. Corpus poeticum boreale: the poetry of the old Northern tongue from the earliest times to the thirteenth century. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1883.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 224 (sold to Young for £1 1s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 531.
Digital version: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
August 6, 2014
Sturleson, Snorri. The Heimskringla, or chronicle of the kings of Norway. Trans. Samuel Laing. 3 vols. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 431 (sold to Hazlitt for £1 5s.). — Unlocated.
References: MS catalogue (1), fol. 17 (£1 15s.) — MS catalogue (2), no. 206.
Digital version: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
May 25, 2014
Magnus, Olaus. A compendious history of the Goths, Swedes, and Vandals, and other northern nations. London: printed by J. Streater and sold by Humphrey Mosely, George Sawbridge, Henry Twiford, Thomas Dring, John Place, and Henry Haringman, 1658.
Provenance: Morris (purchased for £10 6s.). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 782 (sold to Henry Wellcome for 18s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / C 34934/C).
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 51b (10s.). — ESTC (R12262). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 11. — MS catalogue (2), no. 384 (with two X’s next to it).
Sotheby 1898:
May 15, 2014
Arnason, Jón, comp. Icelandic legends. Trans. George E. J. Powell and Eiríkr Magnússon. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1864.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 18 (sold to Sotheran for £1 18s.). — Unlocated.
Digital version: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
April 30, 2014
Grosch. Henrik August. Gamle norske Taepper udgivne af Kunstindustri-Museets Bestyrelse | Altnorwetische Teppich-Muster | Old Norwegian textile patterns. Berlin: Ascher, 1889.
Illustrated. In Danish, German, and English.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 570 (sold to Henry Wellcome for 12s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 347.
Sotheby 1898:
April 25, 2014
Dahl, Johan Christian Clausen. Denkmale einer sehr ausgebildeten Holzbaukunst aus den frühesten Jahrhunderten in den innern Landschaften Norwegens. Dresden: Zöllner, 1837.
Norwegian wooden architecture.
Provenance: Morris. —Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 385 (sold to Henry Wellcome for 8s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 867.
Sotheby 1898:
April 21, 2014
Dasent, George Webbe. The story of Gisli the outlaw, from the Icelandic. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1866.
Illustrated by C. E. St. John Mildmay.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 280 (sold to Shepherd for 11s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 909.
Digital versions: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
April 21, 2014
Dasent, George Webbe. The story of Burnt Njal, or life in Iceland at the end of the tenth century. From the Icelandic of the Njals saga. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1861.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 231 (sold to Bain for £1 9s.). — Unlocated.
Digital versions: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
April 21, 2014
Dasent, George Webbe. Popular tales from the Norse. 2nd ed. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1859.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 230 (sold to Downing for 19s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 768.
Digital version: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
April 16, 2014
Rink, Henry. Danish Greenland: its people and products. Ed. Robert Brown. London: Henry S. King & Co., 1877.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 825 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for 14s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores Hist. 2 (RMR) ZDF.399.AA8).
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 579.
Digital versions: HathiTrust. — Internet Archive (Morris copy).
Sotheby 1898:
April 11, 2014
Ásgrímsson, Eystein. Lilja (the lily): an Icelandic religious poem of the fourteenth century. Ed. Erikr Magnússon. London: Williams and Norgate, 1870.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 611 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 18s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 68.
Digital version: Google.
Sotheby 1898:
April 11, 2014
Grammaticus, Saxo. Saxo Grammatici historia Danica. Ed. Peter Erasmus Müller and John Mattias Velschow. 2 vols. Havniae: Gyldendal, 1839–58.
Morris had the first volume.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1005 (part; sold to Ellis for £2 16s.). — Unlocated.
Sotheby 1898:
April 11, 2014
Elton, Oliver, trans. The first nine books of the Danish history of Saxo Grammaticus. London: David Nutt, 1894.
Presentation copy to Morris. “With some considerations on Saxo’s sources, historical methods, and folk-lore by Frederick York Powell, M.A., F.S.A., student of Christ Church, Oxford.”
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1005 (part; sold to Ellis for £2 16s.). — Unlocated.
Digital version: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898: 
April 9, 2014
Johnstone, James, ed. Antiquitates Celto-Scandicae sive series rerum gestarum inter nationes Britannicarum insuralum et gentes septentrionales. Copenhagen: printed by A. F. Stein, 1786.
Frequently bound with Johnstone’s Antiquitates Celto-Normanicae but apparently issued separately.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 498 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for 1s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / C 30556/C).
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 457.
Digital version: Google.
Sotheby 1898:
April 7, 2014
Rask, Erasmus. A grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse tongue. Trans. George Webbe Dasent. London: William Pickering; Frankfort: Jaeger’s Library, 1843.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 821 (sold to Henry Wellcome for 15s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 908.
Digital version: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
April 2, 2014
Goddard, Julia. Wonderful tales from northern lands. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1871.
Illustrated by W. F. Weigand. With an introduction by the Rev. George W. Cox.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 826 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 4s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.
Digital versions: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
April 2, 2014
Asbjörnsen, Peter Christen. Tales from the fjeld: a second series of popular tales from the Norse. Trans. Sir George Webbe. Dasent. London: Chapman & Hall, 1874.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 826 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 4s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 183.
Digital versions: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
March 5, 2014
Dasent, George Webbe, trans. The prose or younger Edda commonly ascribed to Snorri Sturluson. Stockholm: Norstedt and Sons; London: William Pickering, 1842.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 248 (part; sold to Downing for 9s.). — Unlocated.
Digital version: Internet Archive.
Sotheby 1898:
February 19, 2014
Anderson, Rasmus Björn. Norse mythology; or, the religion of our forefathers, containing all the myths of the Eddas, systematized and interpreted. Chicago: S. C. Griggs, 1888.
Provenance: Quaritch. — Morris (purchased from Quaritch, March 1890, for 10s.) — Sotheby 1898, lot 8 (part; sold to Tregaskis for £1). — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 741.
Sotheby 1898:
February 16, 2014
Haliday, Charles. The Scandinavian kingdom of Dublin. Ed. John P. Prendergast. Dublin: Alex. Thom & Co.; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1882.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 424 (sold to Henry Wellcome for 5s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.
Digital version: Google.
Sotheby catalogue:
The Library of William Morris 
May 24, 2017
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