Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith, 1893. Half-cloth.
xiv+455pp: A copy of the German mystical tale, very popular among the pre-Raphaelites, translated by Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde (the mother of Oscar Wilde, and herself a prominent Irish nationalist and poet), printed in black and red inks in Golden type in a LIMITED EDITION OF 300 COPIES. The present copy is ex-lib with a blind stamp of the Hampstead library on the front board and a few minor stamps within, with a pasted label stating the copy had been 'GIVEN BY MRS WILLIAM MORRIS IN MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND.' The cloth spine is soiled and worn, the paper label is missing and begs for rebacking but as that is considered a heresy by some, we have encased the copy in a clamshell box patterned on the original boards (blue paper, cloth spine, paper label in Goldten type). Good. In Clamshell Box.

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