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KELMSCOTT PRESS -- William MORRIS (1834-1896). The Story of Cupid and Psyche , edited by Douglas Cleverdon and with an introduction by A.R. Dufty. London and Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press for Clover Hill Editions, 1974. 2 volumes, 2° (350 x 240mm) and a portfolio. 44 woodcut illustrations by William Morris et al. after Edward Burne-Jones and 47 illustrations after Burne-Jones on 26 collotype plates. Portfolio with suite of proofs of the woodcuts and suite of the collotype illustrations. Text volumes bound in crushed maroon morocco backed oak boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, spines tooled in compartments in blind and lettered in gilt in 2, text volumes and portfolio in 3 uniform morocco-backed boxes. NO XXIX OF 130 SETS OF THE TEXT VOLUMES WITH THE PORTFOLIO OF PROOFS AND SUITE OF ILLUSTRATIONS. The Story of Cupid and Psyche --A bound volume of maquette leaves bearing excised photocopied text tipped onto the leaves with adhesive tape, titled on the first page 'Copy', each page numbered and with quire signatures as appropriate, position of woodcuts marked with oblongs drawn on the leaves in ink, most pages marked 'Set' and with text struck through. 8° (210 x 147mm). (Occasional light offsetting from adhesive tape, a few text panels detached.) Morocco-backed boards, gilt morocco lettering-piece on spine, uniform with the boxes of the regular edition. The Story of Cupid and Psyche --A bound volume containing proofs and material relating to the publication, comprising: 2 typescript drafts of the prospectus and one of the order form, annotated and corrected; one-page prospectus for the work; a one-page keepsake for Sebastian Carter's lecture 'The Last Kelmscott'; calligraphic designs and page proofs for the title and the text of the volume, proof letterpress and woodcuts on various paper stocks tipped onto leaves, many leaves annotated; 2 proof bifolia, one annotated 'First trial proof 23.ix.70 21/50 Will Carter'; Specimen Printed on Original Kelmscott Press Watermarked Paper , numbered in pencil 30/52, original printed wrappers; 4 autograph letters signed and 2 typed letters signed, from Will Carter to Colin Franklin 12 Chesterton Road, Cambridge, 14 March [?1973]-12 November 1974, 4° and 8°, 8 pages, with replies from Franklin, one photocopied; 2° (342 x 242mm). (Some light adhesive-marking.) Morocco-backed boards, gilt morocco lettering-piece on spine, uniform with the boxes of the regular edition. The Story of Cupid and Psyche --45 proof bifolia (345 x 480mm), all but 2 printed on rectos only, 2 also printed on versos, extensively annotated and corrected, many dated at the head, many versos bearing the text of the Rampant Lions edition of Milton's Areopagitica . (Some minor marginal tears or losses.) Morocco-backed portfolio, gilt morocco lettering-piece on spine, uniform with the boxes of the regular edition. A COMPREHENSIVE ARCHIVE OF THE MAQUETTE AND THE PROOFS OF THE RAMPANT LIONS EDITION OF THE KELMSCOTT CUPID AND PSYCHE , WITH RELATED CORRESPONDENCE AND EPHEMERA, and one of 130 sets of the published work. Morris had discussed an edition of his The Earthly Paradise illustrated by Burne-Jones in 1864 and Burne-Jones had drawn some 60 or 70 illustrations for 'The Story of Cupid and Psyche' section of The Earthly Paradise , of which some 50 were engraved as woodcuts, but the projected edition had been abandoned. An edition was begun in 1897 by the Kelmscott Press, but only 7 specimen pages were printed and the edition was once more abandoned after Burne-Jones' death in 1898. Many years later 44 of these blocks were discovered in the collection of the Society of Antiquaries of London and, using Kelmscott Press troy type loaned by the Cambridge University Press, the Rampant Lions Press produced their remarkable edition of this 'lost' Kelmscott in 1974. This lot comprises the published work with an extensive archive of the proofs and other material, and was given to Colin Franklin by Will and Sebastian Carter of the Ra