Morris Hammersmith And Utopia

MORRIS, William: THE STORY OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN. Which Has Also Been Called the Land of Living Men or the Acre of the Undying, Hammersmith Kelmscott Press 1891

Small quarto (octavo in size). Original full vellum with yapp fore edges, chamois leather ties, spine gilt lettered, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. pp [8], 188, [4]. Ex library, with nice library gift bookplate on front pastedown, library preforation to bottom margin of pp 1-2, scarcely noticable on the recto owing to the wide decorative border; gilt call numbers to lower spine; no other library marks. Gilt spine lettering a little flaked, darkened; one tie neatly repaired; boards a little bowed as usual with vellum; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy of the first book from Morris' Kelmscott Press. Buxton Forman #122. Edition of 200 copies (180 for sale), plus six copies with text on vellum. "the first of WM's novels to be fantasy in something like the modern sense. Despite Nordic names and emblems the setting has an otherworld hue; elements of fairy-tale morality are present. The Glittering Plain is a supposed Utopia, difficult to obtain, whose inhabitants enjoy immortality. " - Clute & Grant, Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 664. Hubin (1978) p. 144. Reginald 10418. First edition. Hardcover.

[SW: Pre-20th century literature]

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