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Morris (W.) Love is Enough, printed in black, red and blue, two woodcuts after Sir E. Burne-Jones, woodcut borders and ornamental initials, orig. vell., ties, Kelmscott Press, 1897, 4to. (34), Dec. 18, Sotheby Maggs, £5 1OS.

[See also July 30, £5 5s.; July 9, £7 5s.; Mar. 26, £8 15s.; July 23, £7 5s.; Puttick, May 30, £8 5s.] Morris (W.) News from Nowhere, printed in red and black, full-page woodcut by W. H. Hooper after C. M. Gere, woodcut border and initials, vell., with ties, Kelmscott Press, 1892, 8vo. (409), July 23, Sotheby Todd, £3 12s. [See also Mar. 26, £4 10s.; Feb. 5, £4 10s.; Hodgson, June 13, £4 4s.; Anderson Galleries, Feb. 13, on vell., $105.]

Morris (W.) Note by William Morris on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press (contains a list of the publications), printed in black and red, woodcut by W. Morris after Sir E. Burne-Jones, woodcut borders and initials, boards, Kelmscott Press, 1898 (526), July 30, Sotheby

Thorp, £3 15s. Morris (W.) Original Autograph Manuscript of Socialism from the Root Up," signed in three places, written on 32 folio pages and bound in crushed olive levant mor., with gt. title on side and a conventional design of roses on sides, corner ornaments of gt. and inlaid roses, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (581), Feb. 13, Anderson Galleries $165

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[This essay appeared in 1890 in "The Commonweal,' under the signatures of E. Belfort Bax and William Morris. The MS. is entirely in Morris's hand, and bears his signature in three places.]

Morris (W.) Poems by the Way, printed in red and black, woodcut border and initials, vell., with ties, Kelmscott Press, 1891, sm. 4to. (405), July 23, Sotheby Todd, £3 8s. [See also Nov. 27, £6; Anderson Galleries, Feb. 13, on vell., $185.]

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Morris (W.) The Story of the Glittering Plain, woodcut border, vell., with ties, Kelmscott Press, 1891, 4to. (218), Dec. 18, Sotheby Maggs, £4

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[See also July 23, £3 8s.; Anderson Galleries, Dec. 20, $40; Sotheby, July 23, ed. 1894, £10 5s.; July 3, £7 158.; Anderson Galleries, Feb. 13, $270.] Morris (W.) Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-tongue and Raven the Skald, one of 75 copies in "Caxton type, spaces being left for the large capitals, hf. holland, Printed at the Chiswick Press for William Morris, 1891, 4to. (652), Feb. 5, Sotheby Quaritch, £7 15s. Morris (W.) The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs, with borders and two illustrations designed by Sir E. Burne-Jones, full limp vell., uncut, with ties, Kelmscott Press [Hamersmith, 1898], sm. folio (689), Feb. 28, American Art Association

[Only 160 copies printed in the Chaucer type.]

$52

Morris (W.) The Sundering Flood, overseen by May Morris, in black and red, with borders and a map, hf. holland, Kelmscott Press, 1897, 8vo. (5435), Nov. 27, Sotheby Hollings, £4 IOS. [See also July 30, £2 108.; Feb. 5, £3 158.; July 23, £2 15s.; Anderson Galleries, Feb. 13, $160.] Morris (W.) Tale of King Coustans and Over Sea, done into English by W. Morris, woodcut title and borders, printed in red and black, crushed blue mor. ex., with broad floral bordered sides, by Sir E. Sullivan (E. S. Aurifex), 1894, 16mo. (869), April 18, Hodgson £5

[See also Sotheby, Mar. 5, 1 2s.; Feb. 5, £2 15s.; July 30, £1 18s.; Anderson Galleries, Feb. 13, on vell., $35.] Morris (W.) The Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane, translated from the French, in black and red, with woodcut title and borders, hf. holland, Kelmscott Press, 1893, 16mo. (5424), Nov. 27, Sotheby Quaritch, £4

[See also Feb. 5, £1 15s.]

Morris (W.) The Water of the Wondrous Isles, printed in red and black, double columns, woodcut borders and initials, vell., with ties, Kelmscott Press, 1897, 4to. (446), July 23, Sotheby Edwards, £6 10S.

[See also Hodgson, June 13, £6 6s.; Sotheby, Nov. 27, £6; Anderson Galleries, Feb. 13, on vell., specially bound mor., $600.1

Morris (W.) The Well at the World's End, printed in red and black, double columns, 4 woodcuts by W. H. Hooper after Sir E. Burne-Jones, woodcut borders and initials, vell., with ties, Kelmscott Press, 1896, 4to. (441), July 23, Sotheby Todd, £8

[See also Mar. 26, 12 10s.; Mar. 5, £6 10s.; Hodgson, Feb. 28, £7.] Morris (W.) The Wood beyond the World, first ed., printed in black and red, full-page woodcut by W. Spielmayer, after Sir E. Burne-Jones, woodcut borders and initials, vell., with ties, Kelmscott Press, 1894, 8vo. (426), July 23, Sotheby Hollings, £4 8s.

[See also Feb. 5, £4; Oct. 30, I IS.; Puttick, Mar. 27, 110s.; American Art Association, April 16, $35.] Morris (W.) Works (other than those printed at the Kelmscott Press), 8 vol., printed in the Kelmscott Press golden type, boards, Chiswick Press, 1901-2, 4to. (408), Dec. 18, Sotheby Burney, £3 IOS.

[See also Hodgson, May 16, £4 4s.] Morris (W.) Works of William Morris, 36 vol., uniformly bound in full brown polished cf., double gt. fillet border, with small floral spray and blind tooling in each corner, gt. panelled backs of similar design, contents lettered, g.e., by Zaehnsdorf, London, 1870-1910, sm. 8vo., sm. 4to. and 12mo. (232), Nov. 16, American Art Association

$675

Morris (W.) Collected Works, with Introductions by his daughter, May Morris, limited ed., portraits, facs. and other illustrations, 24 vol., boards, linen backs, uncut, 1910, 8vo. (58), May 16, Hodgson Smith, LII IIS.

[See also Sotheby, June 4, £9; Anderson Galleries, Jan. 24, $155.] Morris (W.) and Magnusson (E.) The Saga Library, 6 vol., roxburghe, 1891-1905 (215), Dec. 18, Dowell £2 12S.

[See also Feb. 19, I IIS.; Sotheby, July 16, £2.] Morris (W.) and Wyatt (A. J.) The Tale of Beowulf, printed in black and red, woodcut frontispiece, borders and initials, orig. vell., ties, Kelmscott Press, 1895, 4to. (254), June 4, Sotheby Cash, £5 15s.

[See also July 23, £5; Hodgson, May 16, £6 5s.; Anderson Galleries, Feb. 13, $100.] Morrison (Alfred). Catalogue of the Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents formed between 1865 and 1882 by Alfred Morrison, compiled and annotated under the direction of A. W. Thibaudeau, numerous facs., only 200 copies printed, 6 vol., boards, holland back, Printed for private circulation, 1883-92, large 4to. (157), June 11, Sotheby Maggs, £30 Morrison (A.) Painters of Japan, edition-de-luxe, col. and other plates, 2 vol., and duplicate plates in portfolio, one of 150 signed and numbered copies, buckram, t.e.g., 1911, folio (193), Feb. 21, Puttick Batsford, £4

[See also Sotheby, May 28, £4.] Morrison (Arthur). Tales of Mean Streets, first ed., presentation copy, with inscription by the author, also A.L.s. to A. G. Snelgrove referring to R. L. Stevenson and Charles Baxter, 2 pp., green cl., 1894, 8vo. (392), May 3, Hodgson Maggs, £3 1OS.

Morrison (R.) Dictionary of the Chinese Language, 6 vol. in 4, hf. mor., Macao, 1815-23, 4to. (189), Oct. 23, Sotheby Atkinson, £3 15s. Moryson (Fynes). An Itinerary written first in the Latine tongue and translated into English, conetaining_ten yeeres travell, 3 parts in I vol., old cf., mended, John Beale, 1617, folio (203), Oct. 30, Sotheby Dane, £3 15s. [See also June 4, 2; Hodgson, Nov. 22, £5.]

Mother Goose (the old Nursery Rhymes), illustrations in colour and woodcuts by Arthur Rackham, maroon mor., gt. back and borders, with emblematic tooling on back and sides, gt. top, uncut, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, London [1913], sm. 4to. (660), Feb. 13, Anderson Galleries $85

[Limited edition on Large Paper, autographed by the illustrator.]

Motherwell (Wm.) Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern, with introduction and notes (autograph presentation copy from C. K. Sharpe), mor. gt., g.e., silk lined, Glasgow, 1827, 4to. (110), Nov. 20, Dowell

£3 [Another copy, buckram, uncut (with numerous notes,

emendations and alterations by Motherwell and notes by P. A. Ramsay, transcribed by Mr. Macmath on margins and inserted leaves), Glasgow, 1827, Lot 111, Nov. 20, Dowell, £5 5s.]

Motley (J. L.) History of the United Netherlands, portraits, 4 vol., hf. mor., g.t., 1867, 8vo. (291), July 30, Sotheby [See also Oct. 23, 1 10s.] Thorp, £1 Motley (J. L.) Rise of the Dutch Republic, 3 vol., cf., 1889 (59), Dec. 18, Dowell Motley (J. L.) History of the Netherlands and Dutch Republic, portraits, 7 vol., hf. mor., 1868-9, 8vo. (426), July 26, Hodgson Daucy, £1 9s.

14S.

[See also Sotheby, July 16, £1 158.] Motley (J. L.) [Works.] The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 3 vol., 1856-History of the United Netherlands, portraits, 4 vol., 1860-7-Life and Death of John of Barneveld, illustrations, 2 vol., 1874-Correspondence, portrait, 2 vol., 1889, together II vol., first eds., hf. red mor., panelled backs, g.t., by Morrell, a fine set, 1856-89, 8vo. (849), May 28, Sotheby Silk, £9 5s.

Motley (J. L.) Works, portraits, 9 vol., orig. buckram, 1903-4, 8vo. (105), April 16, Sotheby Braun, £2 4S. Moule (T.) Bibliotheca Heraldica, portrait, russ. gt., g.e., by R. Storr, 1822-Hansard (T. C.) Typographia, portrait, plates, russ. gt., g.e., 1825-Johnson (J.) Typographia, LARGE PAPER, illustrations, 2 vol., hf. mor. gt., 1824, etc. (58), March 5, Sotheby Tregaskis, £10 Mountaine (D.) The Gardeners Labyrinth gathered out of the Best Approved Writers of Gardening, Husbandrie and Physicke, two parts, woodcut on title, with others in the text, and the four rare leaves of mazes after sign. K (slightly frayed), J. Wolfe, 1586-Hyll (T.) The Profitable Arte of Gardening, with the Marvellous Governement of Bees, etc., cuts of mazes, R. Waldegrave, 1586Scot (R.) A Perfite platforme of a Hoppe Garden, now newly corrected and augmented, woodcuts (with the blank leaf A 1 before title), H. Denham, 1578, all in black letter, in I vol., contemp. cf., sm. 4to. (53), April 19, Hodgson Myers, £19 Mountgomery (Sir R.) A Discourse concerning the design'd Establishment of a new Colony to the South of Carolina in the most delightful Country of the Universe, large engraved plan of the proposed " Margravate of Azilia," title and 30 pp., unbound and uncut (lower margin slightly damp-stained), Printed in the year 1717, 8vo. (476), April 19, Hodgson Stevens, Son & Stiles, £5

[Sir Robert Montgomery received in 1717 a grant of land between the rivers Allatamaha and Savanna. This land was subsequently planted under the name of Georgia.] Mudford (W.) Historical Accounts of the Campaign in the Netherlands and Battles of Ligny, Quatre Bras and

Waterloo, map and col. plates, some wanting, cf., 1817, 4to. (662), Oct. 23, Sotheby Martin, £3 5s. [See also American Art Association, Nov. 16, specially bound, $420; April 16, orig. boards, uncut, in mor. case, $2,000.] Muffet (Thomas). Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrvm, woodcut on the title, numerous woodcuts in the text, cf. (damaged), T. Cotes, 1634, folio (823), Nov. 13, Sotheby Thorp, £1 18s. Muffet (T.) Health's Improvement, corrected and enlarged by C. Bennett, with the leaf of imprimatur (a few sidenotes shaved), hf. cf., 1655, 4to. (537), Dec. 18, Sotheby Spurr, £3 M[un] (T.) A Discourse of Trade, from England unto the East-Indies, another issue, with mis-print Rea for "Sea" on verso of B, [collation: A-D in fours, d. 4 11., E-H, in fours, A. and H, blanks], unbound, Nicholas Okes for John Pyper, 1621, sm. 4to. (308), Nov. 22, HodgKashnor, £7

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Mun (T.) England's Treasure by Forraign Trade, published by his son, Sir John Mun, contemp. sheep, an important early work on the mercantile system of political economy, 1669, 8vo. (425), April 19, Hodgson Kashnor, £3 12s. 6d. Munchausen (Baron). Surprising Adventures of the renowned Baron Munchausen, containing Singular Travels, Campaigns, Voyages and Adventures, also an Account of a Voyage to the Moon and Dog Star, 9 plates, in two states, col. and plain, hf. red crushed levant mor., gt. top, uncut, by Rivière, London, 1809, 12mo. (583), Feb. 13, Anderson Galleries $35 M[unday] (A.) A breefe and true reporte of the Execution of certaine Traytours at Tiborne, the xxviii. and xxx. dayes of Maye, 1582, gathered by A. M., who was there present, black letter, 10 ll., unbound, W. Wright, 1582, sm. 4to. (115), Nov. 30, Hodgson Quaritch, £30

[One of the rarest of the tracts which Anthony Munday wrote against the Papists. It was reprinted by the Shakespeare Society with John a Kent and John a Cumber."] [Munday (A.)] A VVatch-vvoord to Englande to beware of traytours and tretcherous practises, which haue beene the ouerthrowe of many famous Kingdomes and common weales, black letter, title within woodcut border, a large copy (some inner margins stained), mor., g.t., Printed for Thomas Hacket, 1584, 4to. (163), May 28, Sotheby

Sawyer, £32

[Collation 3 preliminary leaves, including one leaf (a dedication to Q. Elizabeth), which was apparently absent from the Huth copy, and A to N3 in fours.] [Munday (A.)] [Fidele and Fortunio. The deceites in Loue, excellently discoursed in a very pleasaunt and fine conceited Comoedie, of two Italian Gentlemen, translated out of Italian and set downe according as it hath beene pre

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