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[Kelmscott Press. -- Deborah Evetts, binder]. William Morris, translator. The Tale of King Coustans and of Over Sea. Hammers...
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Printed on vellum
[Kelmscott Press. -- Deborah Evetts, binder]. William Morris,
translator. The Tale of King Coustans and of Over Sea.
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894.16mo (c.150 x 110 mm). Printed in red and black in Chaucer type, wood-engraved title, borders and initials designed by William Morris. Finely bound in green goatskin tooled in gilt, by Deborah Evetts, with a diaper pattern of alternating small flower and dots across covers and spine, title running across top and bottom of upper cover, uncut, by Deborah Evetts, stamp-signed "DE'08" on rear turn-in. Housed in green buckram drop-back box, brown goatskin label titled in gilt on spine.
ONE OF ONLY 20 COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM, from an edition of 545. These two stories were translated from the French by Morris, who found them in a collection of medieval romances printed in Paris in 1856, Nouvelles françaises en prose du XIIIeme siècle. The Kelmscott Press published two other works from the same source, also printed in the Chaucer type.
Deborah Evetts is a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders. Having trained at Central School of Arts and Crafts she emigrated to the United States in 1967 and taught bookbinding, before becoming Drew Heinz Book Conservator at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. She now works in private practice as a bookbinder and conservator, executing commissions for and advising private clients and institutions.
Condition: Fine.
References: Peterson A26.
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2024 July 25 Historical Platinum Signature® Auction #6294 (go to Auction Home page)
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