¶ 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:

¶ Malory — Kynge Arthur (1557)

Malory, Sir Thomas. The story of the moste noble and worthy Kynge Arthur, the whiche was the fyrst of the worthyes Chrysten, and also of his noble and valyaunt knyghtes of the rounde table. London: Wyllyam Copland, 1557.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 136 (sold to Quaritch for £31). — Allerton C. Hickmott. — Dartmouth College Library, Rauner Rare Books (PR2043 .W5 1557) [gift from Hickmott].

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 51b (£20). — ESTC (S106641) — MS catalogue (2), no. 958, p. 89.

Digital version: EEBO.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Le grant Kalendrier (1529)

Le grant Kalendrier et compost des Bergiers avecq leur Astrologie. Troyes: Nicolas le Rouge, 1529.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Jean-Baptiste Huzard. — Sale of Huzard’s library (Paris, 1842), pt. 2, lot 363. — William Horatio Crawford. — Lakelands sale (1891). — Bernard Quaritch. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 336 (sold to Stevens for £30). — Lessing J. Rosenwald. — Library of Congress (AY831 .K3 1529, Rosenwald Collection) [gift from Rosenwald].

Digital copy: Library of Congress.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 20b, no. 269 (£18).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Bourgouyn — L’espinette du jeune prince (1514)

Bourgouyn, Simon. L’espinette du jeune prince conquerant le royaulme de bonne renommee. [Paris]: Michel Le Noir, 1514.

Provenance: Rev. Thomas Crofts. — Crofts sale (London, 1783), lot 4788. — John Monro. — Michael Wodhull. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 317 (sold to Leighton for £21 5s.). — Leighton. — C. W. Dyson Perrins. — H. P. Kraus. — Lessing J. Rosenwald. — Library of Congress (PQ1605.B755 A65, Rosenwald Collection) [gift from Rosenwald].

Digital version: Library of Congress.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 18b, no. 228 (£20).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ St. Augustine — Cité de Dieu (1531)

Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo [Saint Augustinus]. Le premier [et second] volume de Monseigneur sainct Augustin de la Cité de Dieu. Trans. Raoul de Presles. Paris: Nicolas Sauetier, 1531.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Lillas Lady Drummond. — Patrik Lord Drummond. — Sir Thomas Gage. — C. W. Dyson Perrins. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 146 (sold to Littlewood for £6 5s.). — Catalogue of Old and Rare Books, Pickering & Chatto, 1900, no. 1024 (£9 9s.). — Library of Congress (BR65.A64 F8 1531, Rosenwald Collection) [gift from Rosenwald].

Digital version: Library of Congress (vol. 1, vol. 2).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 20b, no. 265 (£7 10s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 937 (with two X’s beside the title).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Four titles (1489–1500)

The following titles are bound together:

[1] Philippi, Jacobus. Praecordiale devotorum. Basel: [Michael Furter], 16 June 1489.

Illustrated.

Reference: ISTC (ip00953000).

Digital version: BSB.

[2] Meditationes de vita et beneficiis Jesu Christ. [Cologne: Johann Landen, c. 1500.]

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 24b (£3). — ISTC (im00434000).

Digital version: ULD.

[3] Zerbolt, Gerard [Gerardus de Zutphania]. De spiritualibus ascensionibus. [Basel: Johann Amerbach and Johann Petri de Langendorff, not after 1489.]

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 24b (£3) [listed with Meditationes (above)]. — ISTC (ig00177000).

Digital version: BSB.

[4] Bertholdus. Horologium devotionis. Cologne: Johann Landen, [c. 1498].

Illustrated.

Reference: ISTC (ib00507000).

Digital version: ULD.

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Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 813 (sold to Sotheran for £22). — John Rylands Library, University of Manchester (Incunable Collection R18016.1).

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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:

¶ Straparola — Les facétieuses nuits de Straparole (1857)

Straparola, Gianfrancesco. Les facétieuses nuits de Straparole. Bibliothèque elzévirenne. 2 vols. Paris: Pierre Jannet, 1857.

Provenance: Morris (purchased for 6d.). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 42 (part; sold to Breslauer for £1 9s.). — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (1), fol. 15v.

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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:

¶ Lancereau — Hitopadésa (1855)

Lancereau, Édouard. Hitopadésa. Bibliothèque elzevirienne. Paris: Pierre Jannet, 1855.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 42 (part; sold to Breslauer for £1 9s.). — Paul von Baldinger. — Alphons Nobel. — Offered for sale by Bernard Quaritch, April 2014 (£400). — Offered for sale by Blackwell, April 2015. — William Morris Society (London).

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 61.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Musurus — Etymologicum Magnum Graecum (1499)

Musurus, Marcus, ed. Etymologicum Magnum Graecum. Venice: Zacharias Callierges for Nicolaus Blastus and Anna Notaras, 8 July 1499.

The text, including the title, is entirely in Greek.

Provenance: Dr. Askew. — Askew sale, Baker, c. 22 February 1775 (sold to Michael Wodhull for £2 12s. 6d.). — Michael Wodhull. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 518 (sold to Quaritch for £4). — John Boyd Thacher. — Library of Congress (Thacher Collection 483).

References: ISTC (ie00112000). — Thacher 1, no. 483.

Digital version: BSB.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Epistole et evangelii (1551)

Epistole et Evangelii, et letioni vulgari in lingua thoscana, nuouamente ristampate. Florence: Giunti, 1551.

Illustrated. With letters from W. M. Ivins, Jr., to Sydney Cockerell, 4 November 1921; Cockerell to Ivins, 15 November 1921; and A. M. Hind to Ivins, 21 September 1931. Cockerell’s letter says, “Morris owned it as early as 1890 — It was not until 1892 that I started cataloguing this library & counting the cuts — & I do not know how he acquired it — When we sold the library in 1898 it was valued at £25.”

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 515 (sold to Quaritch for £89). — Charles Fairfax Murray. — William M. Ivins, Jr. — Newberry Library (VAULT Wing folio ZP 535 .G437).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 13b, no. 163 (£25). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 3 (£25). — MS catalogue (2), no. 493 (with two X’s beside the title).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Carta feodi simplicis (1505?)

Carta feodi simplicis cum littera atturnatoria. London: Wynkyn de Worde, [1505?].

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 258 (sold to Ellis for £25). — Ellis. — George Dunn. — Dunn sale, Sotheby, 11 February 1913, lot 20. — Special Collections, Harvard Law School Library (STC 15579.4 Beale T159).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 48b (no price). — ESTC (S118099).

Digital version: EEBO.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Spruner von Merz — Spruner-Menke atlas antiquus (1865)

Spruner von Merz, Karl. Spruner-Menke atlas antiquus. Ed. Theodorus Menke. Germany: J. Perthes, 1865.

This collection of maps went through several editions; we are not sure which version Morris owned.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1136 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for 11s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Chaucer Society’s publications

Chaucer Society’s publications.

One lot in the Sotheby 1898 catalogue (see below) included a substantial collection of miscellaneous publications by the Chaucer Society (founded in 1868): First Series, 14 numbers (between 16 and 43); Second Series (18 numbers); A six-print text of Chaucer’s Canterbury tales, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall; and Chaucer’s various writings (10 vols.). The books probably came to Morris as gifts from his friend Furnivall, the founder of the Society.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 210 (sold to Sotheran for £1 18s.). — Unlocated.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Durand — Rationale divinorum officiorum (1475)

Durand, Guillaume [Guillelmus Duranti]. Rationale divinorum officiorum. Ulm: Johann Zainer, 18 March 1475.

Illustrated. Note at end of book: “Memorandum: That this the concluding folio of the work, was most obligingly copied for me (verbatim, literation and lineation) by my valued friend William Brace (B.A., LL.B., Univ Lond.) from the 1475 Ulm copy in the British Museum, and was given to me by him today, March 27, 1878. J.W. Bone.”

Provenance: J. W. Bone. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 401 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 3s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB Incunabula 2.f.2 (SR)).

References: ISTC (id00408000). —Poynter, no. 215

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Durand — Rationale divinorum officiorum (1475)

Durand, Guillaume [Guillelmus Duranti]. Rationale divinorum officiorum. Ulm: Johann Zainer, 18 March 1475.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Alexander Vulpii. — Leon Hardi Haickl. — Leo S. Olschki (dealer). — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 400 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 6s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB Incunabula 2.f.1 (SR)).

References: ISTC (id00408000). — MS catalogue (2), no. 948, p. 87 (with an X beside the title). — Poynter, no. 214.

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Sotheby 1898:

 

¶ Conradus, de Brundelsheim — Sermones (1480)

Conradus, de Brundelsheim [Soccus]. Sermones de tempore. Deventer: Richardus Pafraet, 1480.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1124 (sold to Proctor for £5 10s.). — Robert Proctor. — Unlocated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 42 (10s.). — ISTC (is00588000). — MS catalogue (2), no. 932, p. 85 (with an X beside the title).

Digital version: ULD.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Rawlinson — Great monarchies (1873–76)

The two following titles are conflated in the Sotheby 1898 catalogue as The seven great monarchies of the ancient eastern world. (Morris seems not to have owned The sixth great Oriental monarchy, published in 1873, or if he did, it may have been deaccessioned by the Wellcome Library, which has another copy without Morris’s book label.)

[1] Rawlinson, George. The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world, or the history, geography, and antiquities of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia. 3rd ed. 3 vols. London: John Murray, 1873.

[2] Rawlinson. The seventh great Oriental monarchy, or the geography, history, and antiquities of the Sassanian or new Persian empire. 2 vols. in 1. London: Longmans, 1876.

Digital version: Internet Archive (Morris’s copy).

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Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 822 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £6 10s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores Hist. 2 ZBB.28).

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 136 (where the title is rendered as “Rawlinson’s Ancient Monarchies”).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Aquinas (c. 1500) and Biel (1499)

The following titles were bound together but were separated after Morris’s death:

[1] Aquinas, Thomas, Saint. In hoc libello continentur tres tractatuli. Primus est sancti Thome Aquinatis de mirabili quidditate et efficacia venerabilis sacramenti eucharistie. Secundus est magistri Nicolai de lyra de idoneo ministrante suscipiente idem sacramentum. Tercius est alicuius docti collectoris de expositione dominice orationis. [Cologne: Heinrich Quentel, c. 1500.]

Digital version: Google.

[2] Biel, Gabriel. Epitoma expositionis sacri canonis missae. Ed. Wendelin Steinbach. Tübingen: [Johann Otmar for Friedrich Meynberger, 1499.]

Illustrated.

Reference: ISTC (ib00654000).

Digital version: BSB.

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Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1078 (sold to Proctor for £1 16s.). — Robert Proctor. — [Aquinas only:] — Christie (South Kensington), 20 September 1996, lot 2 (sold to Maggs for £1,255). — Maggs catalogue 1220, no. 8. — Unlocated.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Jean, d’Arras — Melusine (1854)

Jean, d’Arras. Melusine. Ed. Charles Brunet. Paris: Pierre Jannet, 1854.

Based on Paris, 1478 edition.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 42 (part; sold to Breslauer for £1 9s.). — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 62.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Brunet — Le violier des histoires romaines (1858)

Brunet, Gustave, ed. Le violier des histoires romaines: ancienne traduction françoise des Gesta Romanorum. Paris: Pierre Jannet, 1858.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 42 (part; sold to Breslauer for £1 9s.). — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 63.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Silvestre — Collection de poésies, romans, chroniques (1839–45)

Silvestre, L. C., and others, eds. Collection de poésies, romans, chroniques. 25 vols. Paris: chez Silvestre, 1838–58.

Illustrated. Morris owned five of the volumes, all in Old or Middle French: (1) Miracle de nostre dame d’ Berthe fẽme du roy Pepin (1839). (2) Le mystere de la vie et hystoire de monseigneur sainct Martin lequel fut Archeuesque de Tours (1841). (3) Miracle de nostre dame de la marquise de la Gaudine (1841). (4) La Marche, Olivier de. Le chevalier delibere (1842). (5) Listoyre de Pierre de Provence et de la belle Maguelonne (1845).

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 217 (sold to Bain for £33). — Unlocated.

Reference: MS catalogue (1), fol. 8 (£2 10s.).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Froissart — Le premier [–quart] volume de messire Jehan Froissart (1530)

Froissart, Jean. Le premier [–quart] volume de messire Jehan Froissart, lequel traicte des choses dignes de memoire advenues, tant es pays de France, Angleterre, Flanders, Espaigne que Escoce, et autres lieux circonuoisins. 4 vols. in 1. Paris: A. Couteau for P. Le Preux, 2 September 1530.

Provenance: Charles Bathurst. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 534 (sold to Quaritch for £11). — Goldschmidt catalogue 83, no. 466. — Philip Hofer. — Houghton Library, Harvard University (f Typ 515.30.407).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 19b, no. 258 (£5). — Mortimer, Ruth. Harvard College Library Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. 4 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964–74. (See no. 238.) — MS catalogue (2), no. 878 (with two X’s beside the title).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Stella, Lupoldus, and Nepos (16th century)

The following titles are bound together:

[1] Stella, Giovanni Battista. Vite ducentorum et triginta sumorum pontificu. Basel: Michael Furter, 1507.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 5b, no. 52 (£3).

Digital version: BSB.

[2] Lupoldus, de Bebenburg. De juribus et translatione imperii. Strassberg: Schürer, 1508.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 28b (no price given).

[3] Nepos, Cornelius. Hic subnotata continentur Vita. M. Catonis. Ed. Thomas Wolff. Strassberg: Johann Pruss, 1505.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 28b (no price given).

Digital version: BSB.

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Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1071 (sold to Walker for £3 3s.). — Emery Walker. — Unlocated.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Schott — Walachische Maehrchen (1845)

Schott, Arthur and Albert. Walachische Maehrchen. Stuttgart and Tübingen: J. G. Cotta, 1845.

Romanian fairy tales.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 835 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for 15s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / B 47216/B).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Ptolemy — Cosmographia (1482 and 1486)

The following titles are bound together:

[1] Ptolemy [Claudius Ptolomaeus]. Cosmographia. Trans. Jacobus Angelus. Ulm: Lienhart Holle, 16 July 1482.

Illustrated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 10b, no. 120 (£15). — ISTC (ip01084000). — Poynter, no. 466.

Digital version: Boston Public Library.

[2] Ptolemy [Claudius Ptolomaeus]. Cosmographia. Trans. Jacobus Angelus. Ulm: Johann Reger, for Justus de Albano, 21 July 1486.

Illustrated.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 10b, no. 124 (£22 10s.). — ISTC (ip01085000). — Poynter, no. 468.

Digital version: BSB.

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Provenance: Sotheby 1898, lot 976 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £21). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB Incunabula 4.f.5 (SR) [1482 edition and 1486 edition]).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Macrobius — Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis (1550)

Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius. Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis. Lyons: S. Gryphius, 1550.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 630 (sold to Henry Wellcome for 6s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Wellcome auctions, 10 March 1939, no. 153 (£38). — McLeish catalogue 121, 19 May 1939, no. 226. — William Foot Walker. — York Minster (Old Library O X.H.7) [gift from Walker, 1993].

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 69 (with three X’s next to the title).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Homassel — Cours théorique et pratique (1807)

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.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Natali (1506) and Pseudo-Dionysius (1502)

The following titles are bound together:

[1] Natali, Pietro [Petro de Natalibus], ed. Catalogus sanctorum et gestorum eorum ex diversis voluminibus collectus. [Venice: L. de Giunta, 1506.]

Illustrated.

References: MS catalogue (1), fol. 5 (£3 10s.) — MS catalogue (2), no. 404 (with two X’s next to the title).

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

[2] Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite [Dionysii Areopagitae]. Caelestis hierarchia, Ecclesiastica hierarchia, Divina nomina, Mystica theologia, undecim epistolae. [Venice: Johannes Tacuinus de Cereto], 1502.

Illustrated.

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Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 915 (sold to Quaritch for £11). — Unlocated.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Monuments de la xylographie (1882–84)

Monuments de la xylographie. 4 vols. Paris: Adam Pilinski, 1882–84.

Illustrated. Facsimile reprints of four titles: Apocalypse; Bible des pauvres; Cantica canticorum; Oraison dominicale.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 686 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £10 10s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (each volume catalogued separately, but the latter two are described as missing): Closed stores Hist. O/S 2 ZHB; Closed stores Hist. O/S 2 ZHB /PIL; Closed stores Hist. 2 ZHB; Closed stores Hist. 2 ZHB).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Ingleby — Shakspere allusion-books (1874)

Ingleby, C. M., ed. Shakspere allusion-books, part 1. New Shakspere Society publications, series 4. London: Trübner, 1874.

The book has been rebound, and the Wellcome cataloguers speculate that Morris’s book label was removed when that happened.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1010 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for 10s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores Hist. 2 CUT Pt 1).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Transactions of the New Shakspere Society (1874–76)

Transactions of the New Shakspere Society. London: New Shakspere Society, 1874–76.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1010 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for 10s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccesioned]. — Unlocated.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Brown — Sonnets of Shakespeare solved (1870)

Brown, Henry. The sonnets of Shakespeare solved, and the mystery of his friendship, love, and rivalry revealed. London: J. R. Smith, 1870.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1010 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for 10s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Shakespeare — Poems (1774)

Shakespeare, William. Poems written by Shakespear. London: J. Bell and C. Etherington, 1 September 1774.

Vol. 9 of Bell’s edition of Shakepeare’s plays (1773–74).

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1010 (part; sold to Henry Wellcome for 10s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccesioned]. — Unlocated.

Reference: ESTC (T62821).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Duff — Early printed books (1893)

Duff, E. Gordon. Early printed books. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1893.

Unsigned note—attributed to Emery Walker by Philip Hofer—on front pastedown: “This belonged to a little collection of printed books which Morris kept at the Press (at 21 Upper Mall, Hammersmith) for the use of his printers.” With the Morris book label, so it may have passed through the 1898 Sotheby sale (though it is not listed in that catalogue).

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett (?). — Sotheby 1898 (?). — Houghton Library, Harvard University (Typ 805.93.3404).

Digital version: Wellcome Library (Morris’s other copy at the Wellcome Library).

¶ 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).

Photographed by WSP at the Huntington Library

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Torquemada — three tracts (c. 1510)

The following tracts by Juan de Torquemada [Johannes de Turrecremata] are bound together. Since all three were issued at about the same time and the title-pages are very similar in appearance, it is possible they were intended by the publisher to form a single volume.

[1] Tractatus contra principales errores perfidi Machometi et Turchorum sive Sarracenorum. Paris: Guillaume Eustace, [c. 1510].

[2] Tractatus contra Judeos a quodam judeo nomine Samuel editus sermone arabico. Paris: Guillaume Eustace, [c. 1510].

[3] Dyalogus Christiani contra Sarracenos. Paris: Guillaume Eustace, [c. 1510].

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Reference: Sayle, no. 235.

Provenance: Crofts. — Crofts sale, May 1783. — Guy Phillips. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1033 (sold to Money for £4 8s.). — Frank McClean. — Fitzwilliam Museum (Reference Collection) [McClean bequest, 1904].

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Ludolf, von Sachsen — Vita Christi (1487)

Ludolf, von Sachsen [Ludolphus de Saxonia]. Vita Christi [Dutch] Tboeck vanden leven Jhesu Christi. Antwerp: Gerard Leeu, 3 November 1487.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 772 (sold to Heppenstal for £12 12s.). — Unlocated.

Reference: ISTC (il00353000).

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Sotheby 1898:

Justinian I — Institutiones (1487)

Justinian I [Justinianus]. Institutiones (with the Glossa ordinaria of Accursius). Basel: Michael Wenssler, 31 May 1476.

The date in the Sotheby 1898 catalogue (see below) is apparently an error. Wenssler published several editions of the Institutiones but none in 1487.

Provenance: Inscription “Mnrijs Georgij in Fransening.” — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 738 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £5 15s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB Incunabula 3.f.2 (SR)).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 24b (£3). — ISTC (ij00513000). — Poynter, no. 336.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Ponte — Poëma de laudibus diva Genoves (1512)

Ponte, Carmen [Petrus Pontanus]. Poëma de laudibus diva Genoves. Paris: G. Le Rouge for Denis Roce, 1512.

According to the Christie catalogue (see below), “Inserted at the end is a cut intended by William Morris to be used in his catalogue of his library. It is the device of John Skot, the printer of Every Man, and adapted from the device of Denis Roce.”

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 864 (sold to Ellis for £3). — Ellis. — Charles Fairfax Murray. — Murray sale, Christie, 18 March 1918, lot 622. — Unlocated.

Reference: Ellis valuation, fol. 19b, no. 252 (£2).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Boethius — De consolatione philosophie (1498)

Boethius. De consolatione philosophiae. Lyons: Jean de Vingle, 20 April 1498.

There is some confusion about this book: the Sotheby 1898 catalogue (see below) describes it as being published by Maillet in 1489, but Poynter and the Wellcome catalogue identify de Vingle as the publisher and 1498 as the date.

Provenance: Sir Thomas Knyvett. — Thomas Tanner. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 95 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 4s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB Incunabula 2.c.15 (SR)).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 15b, no. 188 (no price given). — ISTC (ib00808000). — MS catalogue (2), no. 855 (with two X’s beside the title). — Poynter, no. 149.

[Photographed by WSP at the Wellcome Library]

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ St. Jerome — Epistolae et tractatus (n.d.)

Jerome, Saint [Hieronymus]. Epistolae et tractus. 2 vols. Venice: Rubeus?, n.d.

We are unable to identify this book, because the Sotheby 1898 catalogue is vague about both the publisher and date. The ISTC lists several late fifteenth-century editions of Jerome’s Epistolae, but none of them seems to fit the description below. (Rubeus, for example, did issue the book in 1496 [ISTC], but the text is single-column rather than double.)

Provenance: Duke of Sunderland. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 591 sold to Leighton for £11 11s.). — Unlocated.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Four sagas (19th century)

The following titles are bound together:

[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] Sagan af Þorđi Hređu. Copenhagen: Berlingske Bogtrykkeri, 1848.

[4] Barđarsaga Snœfellsass Viglundarsaga. Copenhagen: Berlingske Bogtrykkeri ved N. H. Stendrup, 1860.

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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.)

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Rabanus Maurus-Akademie and St. Bernard (15th century)

The following titles are bound together:

[1] Rabanus Maurus-Akademie. De sermonum proprietate, sive Opus de universo. [Strassburg: The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch), before 20 July 1467.]

Illustrated. With a bibliographical note by Sydney Cockerell. An inscription on the front endpaper records that the two works were purchased by Wilhelm Czwerd in 1474 and presented to the Carthusian monastery at Fogelsanck (Cantave) in 1496.

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 27b (£1). — ISTC (ir00001000). — Poynter, no. 473.

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[2] Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint [Bernardus Claravallensis]. Epistolae. [Strassburg: Heinrich Eggestein, not after 1474.]

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 27b (£2). — ISTC (ib00383000). — Poynter, no. 126.

Digital version: VdI.

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Provenance: Wilhelm Czwerd. — Carthusian monastery at Fogelsanck. — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 979 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £4 4s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB Incunabula 4.f.7 (SR)).

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Hortulus anime (1511)

Hortulus anime. Lyon: Jean Clein and Anton Koberger, 1511.

Illustrated.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 442 (sold to Quaritch for £12). — Philip Hofer. — Houghton Library, Harvard University (Houghton Typ 515.11.455) [Hofer bequest].

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 15b, no. 192 (£1). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 7 (£2). — MS catalogue (2), no. 31 (with two X’s next to it). — Mortimer, Ruth. Harvard College Library Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts. 4 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964–74. (See no. 318.)

Note in MS catalogue (1): “woodcuts.”

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Engravings (facsimiles)

Engravings (facsimiles).

41 engravings after Old Masters (described as “fine facsimiles”) .

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 512 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 4s.).— Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Photographs

Photographs.

20 photographs of medallion stone carvings from church walls.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 946 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £3 4s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library [deaccessioned]. — Unlocated.

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Sotheby 1898:

¶ Delormois — Le nouveau teinturier parfait (1769)

Delormois. Le nouveau teinturier parfait. 2 vols. Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1769.

The Wellcome Library (which owns only vol. 2) describes this as from the 1898 Sotheby auction, but the book does not appear in that catalogue, probably because it is concealed under “and others,” such as in lot 432.

Provenance: Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, perhaps lot 432. — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / A 34108/A).

Reference: MS catalogue (2), no. 606.

¶ Vitruvius — Di archiettura (1535)

Vitruvius Pollio. Di archiettura. Venice: N. de Aristotele detto Zoppino, 1535.

Illustrated. Two inscriptions on final (blank) page mentioning Sig. Antonio Mocenigo and Sig. Zuanne Scalfavoto. With a bibliographical note by Sydney Cockerell.

Provenance: Morris (purchased for 16s.). — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 1197 (sold to Henry Wellcome for £1 1s.). — Henry Wellcome. — Wellcome Library (Closed stores EPB / D 6647/D).

References: Ellis valuation, fol. 47 (£1). — MS catalogue (1), fol. 5 (£1 15s.). — MS catalogue (2), no. 441.

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

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