Barbour, John, comp. The Bruce, or the book of the most excellent and noble prince, Robert de Broyss, king of Scots. (Part 1.) Ed. Walter W. Skeat. London: published for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co., 1870.
Provenance: Morris. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 734.
November 4, 2015
Comments Off on ¶ Leslie — De origine, moribus, et rebua gestis Scotorum (1578)
Leslie, John. De origine, moribus, et rebua gestis Scotorum libri decem. Rome: In aedibus populi Romani [Aldus the Younger], 1578.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Allen D. Macdonald. — Yale Center for British Art, Yale University (DA775 L4 1578).
September 16, 2015
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Martin, Martin. A description of the Western Islands of Scotland. 2nd ed. London: printed for A. Bell, T. Varnam and J. Osborn, W. Taylor, and J. Baker and T. Warner, 1716.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Jane Morris. — May Morris. — Mary Lobb. — Lobb sale 1, lot 37 (part). — Unlocated.
Digital version: Google.
May 28, 2015
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Jamieson, John, ed. The Bruce, and Wallace. 2 vols. Edinburgh: printed by J. Ballantyne and Co. for Manners and Miller, etc., 1820.
Provenance: Morris. — Jane Morris. — May Morris. — Mary Lobb. — Lobb sale 1, lot 52 (part; sold for 15s.). — Unlocated.
Digital version: HathiTrust.
April 1, 2015
Beattie, William. Scotland illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for this work. 2 vols. London: G. Virtue, 1838.
Provenance: Morris. — Jane Morris. — May Morris. — Mary Lobb. — Lobb sale 1, lot 74 (part). — Unlocated.
October 9, 2014
Major, John. Historia Majoris Britanniae tam Angliae quam Scotiae. Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, April 1521.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 670 (sold to Leighton for £1 10s.). — Henry Yates Thompson (purchased from Quaritch, c. 1901). — William Foyle. — Foyle sale, 7 November 2000 (sold for $1,945). — Blackwell’s Rare Books, offered at the 56th California International Antiquarian Book Fair, 2024 ($9,550).
Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 19b, no. 251 (£1 10s.).
Sotheby 1898:
October 3, 2014
Holinshed, Raphael. The first and second volumes of chronicles, comprising 1 The description and historie of England, 2 The description and historie of Ireland, 3 The description and historie of Scotland. 3 vols. in 2. London: printed by Henry Denham for John Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henry Denham, and Thomas Woodcock, 1587.
Morris signature in each volume. Note in MS catalogue (1): “Some p.p. made up from a shorter copy.”
Provenance: Morris (purchased for £6 6s.. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 602 (sold to Dawson for £5 5s.). — Unlocated.
References: Ellis valuation, fol. 50b (£8). — ESTC (S122178). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 9. — MS catalogue (2), no. 363 (with three X’s next to it).
Digital version: EEBO.
Sotheby 1898:
May 9, 2014
Small, John William. Scottish woodwork of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, measured and drawn for the stone. Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1878.
Provenance: Morris. —Richard Bennett. —Sotheby 1898, lot 1123 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £5). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no 339.
Sotheby 1898:
April 25, 2014
Cripps, Wilfred Joseph. Old English plate, ecclesiastical, decorative, and domestic; its makers and marks. With improved tables of the date-letter used in England, Scotland, and Ireland. London: John Murray, 1878.
Illustrated. “Founded upon the papers and tables of C. Octavius S. Moran, F.R.S., F.S.A.”
Provenance: Morris. —Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 226 (sold to Ridler for 17s.). — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 829.
Digital version: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
April 22, 2014
Clough, Arthur Hugh. The bothie of Toper-na-fuosich: a long-vacation pastoral. Oxford: Francis Macpherson; London: Chapman and Hall, 1848.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 213 (sold to Pickering for 6s.). — Unlocated.
Digital version: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
April 22, 2014
Campbell J. F., comp. Popular tales of the West Highlands, orally collected with a translation. 4 vols. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1860–62.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 203 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 8s.). — Henry Wellcome.— Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 46.
Digital versions: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
April 17, 2014
Wilson, Sir Daniel. Memorials of Edinburgh in the olden time. 2nd ed. 2 vols. Edinburgh and London: Adam & Charles Black, 1891.
Illustrated.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1099 (sold to Pickering for 10s.). — Unlocated.
Digital versions: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
April 9, 2014
Child, Francis James, ed. The English and Scottish popular ballads. 6 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1882–89.
Issued in 10 parts in 6 volumes. Morris’s set was unbound.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 266 (sold to Quaritch for £6 2s. 6p.). — Unlocated.
Digital versions: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
March 31, 2014
Carrick, John D. Laird of Logan, or anecdotes and tales illustrative of the wit and humour of Scotland. Glasgow, Robert Forrester, and David Robertson; London: Simkin, Marshall & Co., 1868.
Presentation copy to Morris from J. Bruce Glazier
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 616 (sold to Tregaskis for 13s.). — Unlocated.
Digital copy: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
March 31, 2014
Webster, Alexander. Burns and the kirk: a review of what the poet did for the religious and social regeneration of the Scottish people. Aberdeen: A. Martin; Glasgow: W. & R. Holmes; Edinburgh: James Thin, 1888.
Presentation copy.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 428 (part; sold to Tregaskis for £1 6s.). — Tregaskis catalogue, 18 September 1899, no. 106A (10s. 6d.). — Unlocated.
Digital version: Internet Archive.
Sotheby 1898:
March 30, 2014
Lindsay, Robert, ed. The chronicles of Scotland . . . published from several old manuscripts. 2 vols. Edinburgh: printed by George Ramsay and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814.
2 vols. in one.
Provenance: Morris (purchased for 16s.). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 623 (sold to Henry Wellcome for 3s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Unlocated.
Reference: MS catalogue (1), fol. 14.
Digital versions: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
March 29, 2014
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.
Sotheby 1898:
March 28, 2014
McLaren, John Wilson. Scots poems and ballants. Edinburgh: privately printed, 1892.
Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 629 (part; sold to Tregaskis for £2 2s.). — Unlocated.
Digital versions: HathiTrust.
Sotheby 1898:
The Library of William Morris 
October 19, 2016
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