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Price: US$44.90 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [Colophon] Printed at the Chiswick Press and finished on the 18th day of April 1898. Published by Longmans & Co, Paternoster Row, London. [ii], 25, [1] pages. Loosely inserted printed note states that it was printed in the Golden type designed by Morris for the Kelmscott Press. In the original paper covered boards with narrow cloth spine. The binding is soiled and grubby, the front board is stained. Both the front and rear free end papers are browned. There is wrinkling along the lower edges of all the pages.
Seller: Stephen Rench, Shipston on Stour, United Kingdom
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches bound in stained and worn boards - original 1894 publication (not a reprint) - complete in 25 pages - printed at the Chiswick Press - Laid in is a printed slip describing the printing and from the library of Dr. Perceval M. Barker, 1928? Contents are bright and printed on heavy stock paper.
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$51.31 + shipping
Description: VG in slightly rubbed and bumped at extremities cloth backed paper boards with title printed on front panel. 1st edition of attractive title Printed at the Chiswick Press.
Seller: Peter J. Hadley Bookseller ABA ILAB, Ludlow, United Kingdom
Price: US$56.54 + shipping
Description: 8vo. [ii], 25pp. Original linen-backed printed grey paper boards, uncut. Extremes very lightly rubbed; board partly browned and very lightly soiled.
Seller: John Turton, Crook, United Kingdom
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Description: 1898, printed at The Chiswick Press, pp (iv), 25, (iii), original paper-covered, printed boards, buckram backstrip. Slight foxing on boards, slightly frayed top and bottom of spine, otherwise very good.
Seller: Graham York Rare Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: An Address Delivered by William Morris at the Distribution of Prizes to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb. 21, 1894. Printed by the Chiwwick Press using 'Golden' type, designed by William Morris,and published by Longmans & Co. in 1898. Hardback book with grey paper covered boards and cream linen spine in Good condition. Some minor staining along bottom edge of boards.Pages are Very Good with no staining. Owner's name, Cecilia Roberts, in ink on front end paper with date of Feb. 20. 1910. 25pp.
Seller: PHILIP ALLEN, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$62.50 + shipping
Description: First edition printed at the Chiswick Press in the Golden type designed by Morris for the Kelmscott Press, slim 8vo, pp. [2], 25, [3]; original cloth-backed gray paper-covered boards, spine faded, wear to extremities, upper cover soiled. Emerson Wulling's copy with his ownership signature in pencil on the front pastedown, and an Ampersand Club bookplate noting that this was a gift from him. Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts release stamp on verso of front free endpaper.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$64.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Hardback. Original covers slightly marked with slight bump to top corner, otherwise near very good indeed with excellent contents. No dust jacket.
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An Address Delivered by William Morris at the Distribution of Prizes to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb. 21, 1894. London Longmans & Co. at the Chiswick Press. 1898. 8vo. Boards, printed title to front. Pp25. Boards age discoloured at spine, Library card affix to front pastedown, Neat ownership mark of 1898 on front endpaper together with a memorial bookplate. Small red stamp of St Augustines Abbey Ramsgate on blank lower area of first page. All pages clean and bright throughout with a very strong imprint. A very interesting address filled with William Morris's thoughts and views on art, beauty and the capacity of man to enjoy art. A good book with a respectful provenance.
Seller: Roz Hulse, Plymouth, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 25 pages. Slim 8vo, original cloth backed boards (lightly sunned). London: Longmans & Co. 1898. very good(+) Printed at the Chiswick Press. Enclosed is a slip explaining that this lecture is printed in the `Golden' type designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press, now closed.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8.25" x 5.75"), half linen, blue paper over boards. 25 pp. Bookplate of Wyman Parker at front pastedown. Pencil note on Golden Type at head of ffep. CONDITION: Very good, slight loss to head and foot of spine, worn covers, light offsetting at endpapers and pastedowns.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$77.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. VG+. Hardcover; blue/gray paper over boards; brown cloth spine; black titles to front board; no jacket as issued; hand sewn binding; handmade paper; 25 pp.; mild soiling to boards with an eraser sized spot on back; slight fading to endpapers; neat previous owner's label inside front board, else a clean, very good or better copy.
Seller: Tornbooks, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Description: Slim octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth-backed printed paper-covered boards; [2],25pp. Boards a bit rubbed and faintly soiled, early 20th-century ex libris to front pastedown, else Very Good, internally fine. Features the Golden type designed by Morris for the Kelmscott Press.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$89.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Printed in Kemscott "Golden" type on hand-made paper. Blue printed paper-covered boards, linen back. Slight discolouration to upper cover. A very good copy.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: Printed at Chiswick Press in William Morris's Golden Type. Cloth backed little soiled boards, a VG copy.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$108.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Slight fraying top and bottom of spine, otherwise very good. Uncut. Morris' views on art. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Printed at the Chiswick Press.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$113.09 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo, 21cm, 25p., hand-made paper, quarter linen backed grey paper over boards, with titles printed in black on the upper cover, private library bookplate on the front paste-down, near fine.(lt) ~ Printed at the Chiswick Press. ". I, an old man now, have been much encouraged with what I have seen of the enthusiasm &aspirations toward the right road, of the Birmingham School of Art during the last few years, & I beg you to go on encouraging us of the last generation, so that the next after you may need no encouragement save what they will get from their own work, the pleasure of creating beautiful things, which is the greatest pleasure in the world."
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$121.86 + shipping
Description: Chiswick Press Edition: Hardback, grey bds., black titles, 145 x 210 mm., 200g., 25 pp. fine paper, small bookshop label on pdfep., slight browning to edges of bds., no dw., G+ copy.
Seller: Stephen Wilkinson Fine Books, Near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, IOW, United Kingdom
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto, original boards, quarter linen spine, light wear, good. It is the first of several in similar format. This work was set up in type at the Kelmscott Press shortly before it closed; the type was transferred to the Chiswick Press for printing. First edition.
Seller: G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus), Yuma, AZ, U.S.A.
Morris, William. AN ADDRESS. Chiswick Press, London, 1898.
Price: US$233.90 + shipping
Description: delivered by William Morris at the distribution of prizes to students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb. 21, 1894. Pp. [ii]+26(last blank); cloth backed printed papered boards, a trifle soiled, edges and spine cloth slightly faded, the top fore-corners lightly bruised; uncut; a couple of spots of foxing, name in pencil at head of title page; Longmans & Co., printed at the Chiswick Press, London, 1898. Walsdorf 67. *The first of six lectures by Morris to be published in this format. It was set up at the Kelmscott Press just before it closed and the type was transferred to The Chiswick Press for printing. Loosely inserted in this copy is a slip from the publishers: 'Messrs Longmans intend this book to be sold to the Public at the advertised price, and supply it to the Trade on terms which will not allow of discount.'.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$363.79 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Original half cloth binding, hand-moulded paper, 25 pages, some unopened, some marks and stains to both boards, inside very good condition. Inside the front cover is the very large and ornamental bookplate of William Lygon, 7th Earl of Beauchamp, mounted, designed by renowned bookplate artist and copperplate etcher Charles William Sherborn, R.E. 1902. This bookplate design was itself exhibited at the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers in 1903, as detailed in Charles Davies Sherborn`s 1912 biography of his father. A laid-in notice is included in this volume indicating the publication is printed with the original Morris-designed Golden type, under the auspices of the Trustees of the Kelmscott Press. William Lygon, the 7th Earl of Beauchamp, (1872-1938) was a noted patron of a number of British Arts and Crafts artisans including C.R. Ashbee, who designed the carved bookcases in the Library at Madresfield Court, Beauchamp`s ancestral seat in Worcestershire. A number of William Morris`s Kelmscott editions were in fact housed in this Library, among the thousands of other books. In addition, the 7th Earls` wife commissioned the decoration of the Chapel at Madresfield Court in the British Arts and Crafts style as a wedding present to her husband in 1902. "Waugh fashioned his portrayal of the Flyte family of Brideshead around the Lygons of Madresfield. The exiled head of the family, Lord Marchmain, is based on Lord Beauchamp. Sebastian Flyte is Hugh Lygon, the much-loved second son, to attend whose funeral Beauchamp risked arrest by returning briefly to England. In the acclaimed television version of Brideshead Revisited, Laurence Olivier monopolised most of an episode in one of the longest deathbed scenes on film, in the bosom of the family and in the ancestral home. Except for the venue (and a mistress as the cause of the family woes), Waughs scenario captured something of the original. The news that their father was dying of cancer brought his surviving children for a last reunion in New York. There, in the swankiest suite at the Waldorf Astoria, in the presence of his son and heir, Viscount Elmsley, and his daughter, the Lady Dorothy Lygon, he expired peacefully on 14 November 1938, aged 66. The body was taken on board the great ocean liner, Queen Mary, and entombed at Madresfield. There was no denying that the seventh Earl Beauchamp went out as he had lived in style." (Clune, The Governors of New South Wales 1788-2010, 2009). Madresfield is still in the property of the family and the library is largely intact, books from "Lord Marchmain" are rarely on the market, more so with such fitting content. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550
Seller: Books and Beaches, Anna Bechteler, Icking, Germany
Price: US$897.93 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4 volumes, hardbacks, linen spines and original holland-backed paper boards. Each 21 x 15cm. An Address: 25pp, 1898. A near fine unopened copy. Some Hints: 45pp, 1899. A near fine unopened copy. Architecture and History: 50pp, 1900. A very good copy, a few small marks to boards and a mark to upper margin of final leaf and facing free end-paper. Art and its producers: 47pp, 1901. A near fine copy. Lovely bright copies with only the slightest of wear.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom