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This speech illustrates Morris's life, craftsmanship and politics. Second edition, following the Doves Press edition of the previous year.
Description: Bound in brown paper covered boards and vellum spine. William Morris printed vertically on the spine. Octavo: 22 × 15 cm; unpaginated, pp. [36]. Printed by the Chiswick Press on Batchelor's Anvil & Hammer handmade paper.
Ref.: Walsdorf 201
Condition: Light toning to the vellum and minor edgewear to the board edges. Front free endpapers and pages are clean and crisp, hinges are sound. A remarkably good and fresh copy.

First edition and first printing , illustrated with 19 wood engravings by John Farleigh (4 are full page).
Description: Original black pictorial boards, ornamental endpapers: Octavo: 21 × 14 cm: pp. 74 (2).
Condition: Some rubbing and minor abrasions to extremities. Pages slightly yellowed with age, with occasional light foxing. Else a very good, clean copy.
Notes: John Farleigh also known as Frederick William Charles Farleigh, was an English wood-engraver, noted for his illustrations in this novel, which caused controversy when released due to the religious, sexual and racial themes within the writing and John Farleigh's complementary (and risqué) wood engravings commissioned by Shaw for the book. He is also known for his illustrations of D.H. Lawrence's work The Man Who Died and for the posters he designed for London County Council Tramways and London Transport.

A handsomely produced book with three woodcuts by Heinz Keller (printed on rectos only). Limited edition of 500 copies, this being no. 193.
Description: Quarter red cloth with paper covered boards, pp. 29.Text in German.
Condition: Binding faintly bumped at edges. Endpapers and book block in pristine condition. A clean copy in very good condition.
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Lecture IV Architecture and History, pp. 1–33; and Lecture V Westminster Abbey, pp. 35–50. Lecture Architecture and History was first given by Morris as a paper read before the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) on July 1. 1884. Westminster Abbey was a paper written for the SPAB in June of 1893.
Description: Pale blue paper over boards, with the title page text reproduced on the upper front cover, cloth spine. Octavo: 21 × 14.5 cm; pp. [2] 50. Printed from 'Golden' type on fine mould-made paper.
Ref.: Walsdorf 77
Condition: Some age toning and soiling to covers (back cover has a slightly larger spot at the bottom), a bit of edgewear and slight sunning to spine. Usual age tanning to one side of free endpapers. Pages are clean and bright, hinges are sound.

First edition of Josef Frank's (1885–1967) most important theoretical work on architecture.
Description: Paper covered boards with original dust jacket, lettered in black. Octavo: 19 × 13 cm; pp. viii, 190.
Condition: Dust jacket torn, a longer tear to base of front cover (c. 7 cm), a major loss on the back cover (c. 5 × 2 cm). Binding tight and intact. A small water stain on the first 6 leaves. Otherwise clean and very well preserved.
Notes: Along with Adolf Loos and Josef Hoffmann, Frank was one of the most important protagonists of Viennese Modernism. Frank's critical and polemical texts, which accompanied the development of architecture in Austria, cover the subjects of architecture, housing and urban planning. Frank is rightly regarded as a major critic of functionalism. To the end, he sought to reveal the layers of meaning of modernism and to regain some of the freedom it had lost through its dogmatisation.

A lecture delivered by William Morris at Burslem Town Hall on October 13, 1881. The 2nd of six lectures by Morris published in the same format.
Description: Pale blue paper over boards, with the title page text reproduced on the upper front cover, cloth spine. Octavo: 21 × 14.5 cm; pp. [2] 31. Printed from 'Golden' type on fine mould-made paper.
Inserted: Loosely inserted a printed note from the publisher indicating that the book may not be sold for a discounted price.
Ref.: Walsdorf 68
Condition: Minor age toning to covers. Endpapers and pages are clean and bright, hinges are sound. A very good copy.
Notes: Over the years this lecture has been one of the essays by Morris which has most often been reprinted, with special reference given to his words, "Time was when everybody that made anything made a work of art besides a useful piece of goods, and it gave them pleasure to make it […] if I have any worthy aspiration, it is the hope that I may help to bring about the day when we shall be able to… Read More

The beautifully made book combines Burns poems with photos of places that inspired him (photographs by the author). The book comes in its own original box and covering paper. First Edition.
Description: Publisher's cloth, decorated and titled in gilt to upper board and spine. Black endpapers. Original cardboard box. 16mo 16 × 11 cm; pp. 148. Illustrated with a lithographed frontispiece and b/w photographs. Top edge gilt, others uncut.
Condition: Externally excellent with just some minor shelfwear to corners. The box, later re-covered with paper, rubbed and bumped. Internally tightly bound throughout and largely bright and clean. A lovely copy