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[KELMSCOTT PRESS]; MORRIS, William; BURNE-JONES, Edward (illustrator).

The Wood Beyond the World.

Stock Code
107028
Hammersmith, Kelmscott Press, 1894
£8,000

William Morris founded the Kelmscott Press, named after his property, to restore publishing to its former splendour and combat the effects of Victorian industrialism. In a few years, until 1898, the craftsman of Arts & Crafts produced 52 books meeting rigourous aesthetic standards, inspired by the typography of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The Wood Beyond the World is one of two texts specially composed by William Morris for Kelmscott's editions.

This copy includes an elaborate and beautiful binding 'designed and finished by L. Mounteney' (gilt signature on front lower dentelle), dating from c.1930s. Mounteney was apprenticed at the bindery of G & J Abbott in Nottingham, studied ornamental design at the Battersea Polytechnic, and spent the early part of his career in London as a finisher for Rivière and Son. Having established his reputation, he emigrated to the United States in 1924, where he worked for R.R. Donnelley, then Cuneo's

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Limited edition, one of 350 examples on verge, from a total edition of 358; 8vo, (20.4 x 14 cm); woodcut frontispiece and initials after Edward Burne-Jones, printed in black and red; finely bound in green morocco by Leonard Mounteney, elaborate gilt tooling and red morocco flowers, spine in five parts with raised bands, corresponding flower design and title in gilt, rose-coloured watered silk doublures and flyleaves, top edge gilt, enclosed in patterned paper board slipcase, spine slightly faded, an excellent example.

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