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