The Story of the Glittering Plain Which Has Been Also Called the Land of Living Men or the Acre of the Undying

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KELMSCOTT PRESS

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Written by William Morris. The Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, 1894.

One of 250 copies on paper, of a total edition of 257 (7 on vellum). 29.5 x 21.8 x 2.4 cm; pp. [8] + 184. Troy type (table of contents in Chaucer type) on Batchelor hand-made paper with the Perch watermark. Twenty-three woodcut illustrations (by Walter Crane), two full-page woodcut borders and title, side and three-quarter woodcut borders, and numerous woodcut initials; chapter titles in red. Original full limp vellum, with blue silk ties; title gilt on spine.

Provenance: Bookplate of James Granville Legge

Peterson A22.

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