Poems by the way: PB 72-2005

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Poems by the way

Maker(s)

Author: Morris, William
Printer: Morris, William
Designer: Morris, William
Printer: Kelmscott Press
Bookseller: Reeves & Turner

Entities

Drawing

Description

Written by William Morris.

With the original designs by Morris for three initial letters fastened on front paste-down. William Morris’s signature pasted on back paste-down. Cutting from sales catalogue also on back paste-down indicates book originally contained loose proofs of p.111-113. Later sales cutting laid in.

[4], 197 p ; 21 cm.

Place(s) associated

London

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2005-10) by Surtees, Virginia

Dating

Production date: AD 1891

Note

In black and red, with initials; first page of text within ornamental border. Colophon: "Here endeth Poems by the way, written by William Morris, and printed by him at the Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, in the county of Middlesex; and finished on the 24th day of September of the year 1891. Sold by Reeves & Turner, 196, Strand, London". Limited ed. of 300 copies printed on paper, 13 on vellum. Cf. Peterson. Bound in stiffened vellum, lettered in gold on spine, with green silk ties; edges uncut.