Morris´ A Tale of the House of the Wolfings 1889
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MORRIS, WILLIAM. A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and all the Kindreds of the Mark written in Prose and in Verse. London (Reeves and Turner, printed at the Chiswick Press) 1889.
4:o (263x197 mm.). (8), (1)-199, (3, last blank) pp. Bound in slip with text of the edition "One hundred copies of this large paper edition have been printed, of which eighty-nine were for sale". Also withbound the original spine label.
Later (early20th century) well preserved brown full morocco, blind-tooled frames, blind-tooled inner doublures of brown morocco, marbled endpapers, blind-tooled spine with gilt title, all edges gilt. (The binding signed 1912 on back cover). In a partly defective brown leather slip case.
"A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark" is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature. It was first published in hardcover by Reeves and Turner in 1889. The book influenced J. R. R. Tolkien's popular The Lord of the Rings. (Wikipedia).
This is the first of Morris's three typographical experimentations produced under his direction at the Chiswick Press that helped to solidify his concepts of book design and led to his establishment of the Kelmscott Press.
Auktionsnummer:
6061
Date:
2015-12-15