William Morris
Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile, 1894
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press
One of 500 copies. Uniquely bound by Julia Wightman.
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16mo. 68pp. Morris's translation is decorated with a woodcut title page and facing page with full woodcut border, plus three-, seven- and thirteen-line initials throughout. Printed in Chaucer type in...
16mo. 68pp. Morris's translation is decorated with a woodcut title page and facing page with full woodcut border, plus three-, seven- and thirteen-line initials throughout. Printed in Chaucer type in black, with shoulder notes and colophon page in red. Julia Wightman's binding is of full green morocco with black and red leather onlays arranged in an Escher-like pattern of repeating diamonds, with grant the illusion of three-dimensional cubes. Spine in six compartments with titling in gilt. Wightman's stamp at rear turn-in. "E. B. D." to front turn-in; this possibly Edith Diehl, under whom Wightman studied bookbinding. A slick, modernist approach to the Kelmscott Arts & Crafts aesthetic. Housed in slipcase, with another binder's stamp giving a 1955 completion date. Original prospectus laid in.
