SYR PERECYVELLE OF GALES.
- Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895.
- 8vo.
- quarter cloth with blue holland-backed paper-covered boards.
- (iv), 98 pages.
Price: $2,950.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 58016
Printed in an edition limited to 358 copies this being one of 350 copies printed on flower paper. (Cockerell 33; Peterson A33; Walsdorf 33). Spine ends and corners bumped and worn, a few short splits to spine, some light marking and toning to covers.
This is the first of the trilogy which is completed by Sire Degrevaunt and Syr Isumbrace. They were all reprinted from the Camden Society's volume of 1844, which was a favorite of William Morris from his Oxford days. Printed in Chaucer type in black and with shoulder notes added by Morris in red, with three and ten line initials. Finely ornamented with initial letters and woodengraved foliate borders throughout. The woodcut frontispiece is after a design by Edward Burne Jones. Uppter cover title in black.
Provenance: bookplate of G.M. de Brabander on front free endpaper. Gift inscription in ink on front free endpaper.