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Price: US$29.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 50 pp., original boards and cloth backstrip; covers worn at extremities, book plate to the front paste down, else good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.
Seller: Zubal-Books, Since 1961, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
WILLIAM MORRIS. ARCHITECTURE AND HISTORY, AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY. LONGMANS & CO., 1900.
Price: US$44.90 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Architecture and History, and Westminster Abbey by William Morris. Printed by the Chiswick Press, using 'Golden' type designed by William Morris, and published by Longmans & Co. in 1900. Hardback book with grey paper covered boards and cream linen spine in Good condition except for staining on the boards, wear on the corners and edges of the boards and Gloucestershire College of Art & Design stamps on the front end papers. Bookplate for J. Jeffrey Waddell on the inside of the front board. 50pp.
Seller: PHILIP ALLEN, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$48.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback, linen spine with paper covered boards. 21 x 14.5cm. 50pp. Printed at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press. Slight wear to extremities. Contents clean and unmarked.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Price: US$48.74 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [ii], 50 pages. In the original paper covered boards with cloth spine. Browned and soiled. Front free end paper browned. Loosely inserted small sheet with printed list of three Lectures by Morris reprinted in the Golden Type. This list is very spotted. Colophon - Reprinted at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press and finished on the twentieth day of December 1900.
Seller: Stephen Rench, Shipston on Stour, United Kingdom
William Morris. Architecture and history, and Westminster Abbey. Chiswick press, London, 1900.
Price: US$51.31 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [Colophon] Printed at the Chiswick Press wit the Golden type designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press, and finished on the fourteenth day of September 1900. Published by Longmans & Co, 39, Paternoster Row, London. [2], 50 pages. Loosely inserted 2 printed notes: both from Longmans, one saying no discounts, the other advertising 3 other books in this series. In the original paper covered boards with narrow cloth spine. The binding is soiled and grubby. There is wrinkling along the lower edges of all the pages.
Seller: Stephen Rench, Shipston on Stour, United Kingdom
Morris, William. ARCHITECTURE AND HISTORY, AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Longmans, London, 1900.
Price: US$64.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "A paper read before the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings on July I, 1884. Printed at the Chiswick Press with the Golden Type Designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press. Blue Quarter-Cloth spine with Pale Blue/Grey Ingres paper-Covered Boards. 50 Pages, 200g, 8 1/2" Tall. No inscriptions. Page edges uncut at the top so the book must be unread. Slight soiling to cover and a small closed tear at bottom edge (3/4" long, see photo). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom
MORRIS, William. ARCHITECTURE AND HISTORY, AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY. LONDON, CHISWICK PRESS, 1900.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ORIGINAL CLOTH BACKED GRAY BOARDS; 50 PAGES FIRST EDITION GOOD-VERY GOOD
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$76.97 + shipping
Description: [ii], 50 pp. Original boards with linen backstrip, lettered to upper cover, a little soiled and rubbed but generally good.
Seller: Rachel Lee Rare Books, Bristol, United Kingdom
Price: US$84.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 50pp, boards and cloth back, printed on Golden Type.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Morris, William. ARCHITECTURE AND HISTORY AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Longmans & Co., [London, 1900.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Cloth-backed boards. Some soiling to boards, internally about fine, with the series prospectus laid in. Second printing in this format. One of 500 copies printed at the Chiswick Press utilizing the Golden type designed by Morris for the Kelmscott Press. LEMIRE C-7.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Slim 8vo, cloth back-strip, printed boards, 50pp. With the bookplate of the distinguished OLIVER W. F. LODGE (son of the famous father), together with his pencil-drawn monogram on the front endpaper. First Edition.
Seller: Steve Finer - Rare Books, Greenfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$101.67 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Lecture IV "Architecture and History," pp. 1-33; and Lecture V "Westminster Abbey," pp. 35-50. Lecture "Architecture and History" was first given by Morris as a paper read before the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) on July 1. 1884. "Westminster Abbey" was a paper written for the SPAB in June of 1893. ¶ Description: Pale blue paper over boards, with the title page text reproduced on the upper front cover, cloth spine. Octavo: 21 × 14.5 cm; pp. [2] 50. Printed from 'Golden' type on fine mould-made paper. ¶ Ref.: Walsdorf 77 ¶ Condition: Some age toning and soiling to covers (back cover has a slightly larger spot at the bottom), a bit of edgewear and slight sunning to spine. Usual age tanning to one side of free endpapers. Pages are clean and bright, hinges are sound. ¶
Seller: Georg Schneebeli :: Rare Books & Prints, Zürich, Switzerland
Price: US$102.62 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Set in Kelmscott 'Golden' type and printed on Batchelor handmade paper. Blue paper-covered boards titled in black, canvas back. Endpapers a bit yellowed. Armorial bookplate. A very good to fine copy. One of the 'Golden Lectures' printed at the Chiswick Press.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$112.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 50pp, boards and cloth back, printed on Golden Type. A very nice copy. This is James Truslow Adams's copy with his bookplate and ownership signature. Adams won a Pulitizer Prize for his 1922 work The Founding of New England.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$117.75 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., original linen-backed grey boards, lettered in black slightly soiled and scuffed at edges, uncut. London, Printed by the Chiswick Press for Longmans & Co. With the bookplate on the front pastedown of Ralph, Second Earl of Lovelace and Thirteenth Baron Wentworth.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
William Morris. Architecture and History, and Westminster Abbey. Longmans and Co., 1900.
Price: US$121.86 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1900. Printed at the Chiswick press with the Golden type designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press. Board corners a little scuffed and has neat previous owners name on the title page otherwise a clean tight copy.
Seller: PETER FRY (PBFA), Grange- over -Sands, CUMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: London: Longmans & Co., 1900]. Reprinted at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type, designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 208 x 143 mm). 50 pp. Quarter holland-backed boards. Title printed in black on front board. Boards with some rubbing along edges. A bit of marginal staining. Overall very good. "Architecture and History. A paper read before the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, on July 1, 1884" HBS 65763. $125.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Description: First editions thus. Three separate volumes. Original holland backed gray bpaper covered boards with black lettering on covers. All printed in Golden Type (designed by William Morris) on handmade paper at the Chiswick Press. One volume with advertisement laid in for "Lectures" by William Morris. Slight dusting and brown-toning, else near fine copies. A nice set.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$962.07 + shipping
Description: First editions, first impressions, an attractive gathering in excellent condition, of these four Chiswick Press fine press publications of William Morris's lectures. Some Hints on Pattern Designing was one of two Morris works included in Printing and the Mind of Man. In the catalogue it is noted that Walter Crane wrote of Morris's far-reaching aesthetic philosophy, "if it has not turned all British craftsmen into artists or all British artists into craftsmen, it has done not little to expand and socialise the idea of art, and (perhaps it is not too much to say) has made the tasteful English house with its furniture and decorations a model for the civilised world" (PMM 367). PMM 367. Four works, octavo. Original holland boards with cloth spines and blue paper over boards, titles to front boards in black. With parts of the original plain dust jackets laid in at the rear of each volume. Cover of first three titles lightly toned, the fourth almost as new, some staining to board edges of Some Hints on Pattern Designing, all sound and internally clean, generally excellent condition.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$3206.90 + shipping
Description: First edition, later impression, printed three months after the first, this copy in a handsome arts and crafts binding by Taunton and Evans. William Morris gave these lectures before the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings on July 1884 and July 1893. The book was printed at the Chiswick Press using the Golden Type of the Kelmscott Press. Ethel Taunton was a student of the London bookbinder Douglas Cockerell for six months before returning to her home of Tadworth, where she worked for a year and a half, "binding for friends and booksellers, and teaching one pupil" (Tidcombe, p. 169). She later returned to London to set up her own workshop in Kensington. "At first she worked alone, and then for a while with Miss G. Wallbrand Evans, who may have been trained at the Guild of Women Binders workshop in Hampstead, as one of her bindings appeared in the Guild's sale in 1904" (ibid.). The first impression of Architecture and History, and Westminster Abbey was printed at the Chiswick Press on 14 September 1900; this copy was printed 20 December 1900. Latham 62; Marianne Tidcombe, Women Bookbinders, 1880-1920, 1996. Octavo (214 x 144 mm). Finely bound by Taunton & Evans in full blue morocco, raised bands on spine, compartments tooled in gilt with brown onlay, covers with gilt-tooled borders of leaves and brown onlay between gilt rules, front cover lettered in gilt, turn-ins ruled in gilt, brownish-grey endpapers, edges gilt and untrimmed. Extremities lightly sunned, corners just bumped, trivial foxing to contents. A near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom