98 KELMSCOTT PRESS: SEKIGAWA, Sakio; FRANKLIN, Colin. The Kelmscott Press and Japan. Tokyo: Yushodo Booksellers Ltd, 1982 Limited edition, signed by the authors, number 74 of 100 copies bound in vellum and with an original leaf printed by the Kelmscott Press loosely inserted, from a total edition of 1,500 copies. The text is mostly in Japanese with Franklin’s essay in English. The loosely inserted leaf is pp. 95–96 (leaf g8) from William Morris’s The Story of the Glittering Plain , published by the Kelmscott Press in 1894. Folio. Original vellum, lettering to spine in gilt, original linen ties. Publisher’s original slipcase. Eight colour plates and numerous black and white facsimile illustrations within the text. A fine copy. £375 [153983] 99 KEYNES, John Maynard. The Economic Consequences of the Peace. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1919 WITH THE DUST JACKET, A RARE SURVIVAL First edition in the very scarce dust jacket, of Keynes’s second book, which established his reputation as a political economist and which Keynes’s biographer called “one of the most influential books of the twentieth century” (Skidelsky, p. 384). Keynes resigned as principal representative of the British Treasury at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, in protest at the reparations demanded from Germany. This book was written immediately
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afterwards: Keynes would continue arguing against the reparations in A Revision of the Treaty (1920). Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt rules at head and tail of spine continued across covers in blind. With dust jacket. Spine ends and corners gently bumped and rubbed, cloth and gilt notably bright; internally clean, endpapers browned, light spotting at upper margins of pp. 47–55; jacket an extremely uncommon survival, browned and soiled, spine darkened resulting in obfuscation of red lettering, chipped at ends and splitting in a few places along folds, with three horizontal closed tears across spine panel, small tape repair at foot of spine panel verso, loss to rear flap. Notwithstanding, a near-fine copy in a very well- preserved example of the jacket in one piece. ¶ Fundaburk 9981; Mattioli 1807; Moggridge A 2.1.1. Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed , 1983. £6,750 [154953] 100 KING, Jessie M. (illus.); EVANS, Sebastian (trans.) The High History of the Holy Graal. London: J. M. Dent, 1903 King’s “most important achievement” First King edition, one of 225 “sumptuously produced” large paper copies, this number 54 of the English issue. This edition was the first to feature illustrations by Jessie Marion King (1875–1949) and showcases her fine and delicate work. This translation, first published in 1898, retells a version of the old French romance of Perceval
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97 KELMSCOTT PRESS: MORRIS, William. The Water of the Wondrous Isles. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897 An early fantasy novel First edition, one of 250 copies from a total edition of 256 copies. Morris first started writing his romance in verse. He then experimented with prose and verse, before deciding on prose alone. The work can, therefore, be seen as an early fantasy novel. The work tells of the adventures of a naked heroine, Birdalone, who escapes from the claws of a witch and travels to a series of fantasy lands, including the Isle of Increase Unsought, which holds a critical mirror to Victorian Britain. Large octavo. Original limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt, green silk ties. Elaborate woodcut borders and ornaments entirely designed by William Morris, “except the initial words Whilom & Empty, which were completed from his unfinished designs by R. Catterson-Smith” (colophon). Text printed in red and black Chaucer type in double columns, with a few lines in Troy type and shoulder notes in red. Spine toned, as usual, minor foxing, offsetting from silk ties; a near-fine copy with the original ties. ¶ Forman 168; Franklin, p. 210; LeMire A-84.01; Peterson A45. £6,750 [157023]
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