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A dream of John Ball and A king's lesson / by William Morris.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1892 Morris
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morris, William, 1834-1896.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ball, John, -1381--Fiction.
- Ball, John.
- Matthias I, King of Hungary, 1443-1490--Fiction.
- Matthias.
- Working class--Great Britain--Fiction.
- Working class.
- English fiction.
- Working class--Great Britain.
- Tyler's Insurrection, 1381--Fiction.
- Tyler's Insurrection, 1381.
- Genre:
- Utopian fiction.
- Bookplates (Provenance)
- Private press books (Printing)
- Slipcases (Binding).
- Physical Description:
- 123 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Other Title:
- A king's lesson
- Place of Publication:
- Hammersmith : Kelmscott Press, 1892 (London : sold by Reeves and Turner)
- Notes:
- Colophon: This book, A dream of John Ball and A king's lesson, was written by William Morris, and printed by him at the Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, in the county of Middlesex; and finished on the 13th day of May, 1892. Sold by Reeves & Turner, 196, Strand, London.
- Mark of the Kelmscott Press on last leaf.
- Housed in a cloth slipcase.
- One of 300 copies printed.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Printed in red and black in Golden type; spine lettered in gilt; decorative woodcut borders and initials; frontispiece after a design by Sir Edward Burne-Jones; with roman lettering and border designed by Morris.
- Athenaeum copy: ExLibris: W. K. Bixby; former owner's bookplate on front pastedown.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of: Robert S. Price.
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