Messrs.Morris & Companyhave appointed as their general agent Mr. A. E. Bulkley of 42 East 14th St., New York City, and he will be pleased to give all information respecting the various fabrics, etc., designed by the late Mr. Morris and sold byMorris & Company. These may also be obtained of Mr. A. H. Davenport, 96-98 Washington St., Boston.
Footnotes:
[1]When theUtopiaappeared with this introduction an Eton master who had ordered forty copies in advance, intending the books to be used as prizes for the boys in his school, withdrew his order, Young England not being allowed at that time to keep such Socialistic company.
[2]The trustees are now publishing the remainder of Morris’s own works in the type of the Kelmscott Press, though without the ornaments, that a uniform edition may be had.
[3]The reader here is expected to note the correspondence between the names of the ladies and the titles of their lovers, and the same correspondence is carried out in the colour of the ladies’ garments and the armour of the knights.
[4]Lewis F. Day.
[5]This bibliography is reprinted, with certain slight additions, from the bibliography prepared by S. C. Cockerell for the monograph entitled, “A Note by William Morris on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press.”
[6]At the Ellis Sale (1901) a presentation vellum copy brought £114.
[7]The first sheet was printed on the 2d of March, the last on the 4th of April.
[8]At the Ellis Sale a presentation vellum copy brought £60.
[9]In this line as it originally stood, “dawn” was the rhyme provided for “corn.” In the new line the rhyme for corn is “daylight new-born;” but Mr. Buxton Forman writes that Morris was wont to declare that “No South Englishman makes any difference in ordinary talk between dawn and morn for instance.”
[10]“When Adam dalf and Eve span, who was thanne the gentleman.”
[11]This book realised at the Ellis Sale £8.5s. for the paper copy, and £61 in vellum. Since its publication it has sold as low as £2.15s. for paper copies, and £29 for vellum.
[12]Mr. Ellis’s presentation copy sold for £91.
[13]This “foreword” is a socialist document occupying pp. III to VIII.
[14]At the Ellis Sale a copy on vellum (not presentation) brought £9.10s.
[15]This story Morris said he translated in a day and a quarter.
[16]At the Ellis Sale a paper copy brought £25.10s., while in 1900 one brought £27.5s.
[17]Mr. Vallance says, “This is noteworthy as being the sole instance of a heraldic device among thepublisheddesigns of William Morris.”
[18]In the list of Dec. 1st, 1894, the 2d and 3d volumes are announced to follow “early in the New Year.” The third volume did not, however, appear until the autumn of 1895.
[19]Dull red silk ties. Gold lettering on back.
[20]Also that 7 of the 8 vellum copies have been subscribed for.
[21]In the prospectus the price for full white tooled pigskin binding executed under Mr. Cobden-Sanderson’s direction is given at £13.
[22]The quotations heading each stanza are in red, the initial letters pale blue, the remaining text in black.