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KELMSCOTT PRESS SAVONAROLA (GIROLAMO) Epistola de contemptu mundi, LIMITED TO 156 COPIES, 'Guglielmo Morris alla Stamperia Kelmscott', 30 November 1894 image 1
KELMSCOTT PRESS SAVONAROLA (GIROLAMO) Epistola de contemptu mundi, LIMITED TO 156 COPIES, 'Guglielmo Morris alla Stamperia Kelmscott', 30 November 1894 image 2
KELMSCOTT PRESS SAVONAROLA (GIROLAMO) Epistola de contemptu mundi, LIMITED TO 156 COPIES, 'Guglielmo Morris alla Stamperia Kelmscott', 30 November 1894 image 3
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KELMSCOTT PRESS
SAVONAROLA (GIROLAMO) Epistola de contemptu mundi, LIMITED TO 156 COPIES, 'Guglielmo Morris alla Stamperia Kelmscott', 30 November 1894

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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KELMSCOTT PRESS

SAVONAROLA (GIROLAMO) Epistola de contemptu mundi, LIMITED TO 156 COPIES, this one of 150 on paper, edited by Charles Fairfax Murray, printed in red and black in Chaucer type, wood-engraved illustration on title-page by W. H. Hooper after Charles Fairfax Murray, first leaf of text with full border and initial by William Morris, uncut in original holland-backed boards, grease mark and scuff to front cover [Peterson A31, Related Materials (k); Sparling 31], 8vo, 'Guglielmo Morris alla Stamperia Kelmscott', 30 November 1894

Footnotes

One of only 156 copies privately printed at the Kelmscott Press, this being one of the 150 on paper. "This little book was printed for C. Fairfax Murray, the owner of the manuscript, and was not for sale in the ordinary way. The colophon is in Italian, and the printer's mark is in red" (Sparling). None of the 156 copies appear to have been offered at auction since 2013.

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