Morris (William) The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs, second edition, presentation copy signed by the author on half-title, 4pp. advertisements at end, half-title and verso of final advertisement leaf browned, original cloth, spine label browned,1877; The Odyssey of Homer, first one-volume edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on half-title, Harry Buxton Forman's copy with his bookplate and long note about the recipient of the book, original cloth, spine label soiled, 1887, 8vo (2) ⁂ The first is inscribed to George Washington Fournier Howell, a working class politician and agitator who was secretary of the parliamentary committee of the TUC; the second to John Barnes who, according to Buxton Forman's note, was "for many years a shopman at 29 New Bond Street; and when Morris's books were published there by Ellis, the poet used to present copies to Barnes & inscribe them..."
Morris (William) The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs, second edition, presentation copy signed by the author on half-title, 4pp. advertisements at end, half-title and verso of final advertisement leaf browned, original cloth, spine label browned,1877; The Odyssey of Homer, first one-volume edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on half-title, Harry Buxton Forman's copy with his bookplate and long note about the recipient of the book, original cloth, spine label soiled, 1887, 8vo (2) ⁂ The first is inscribed to George Washington Fournier Howell, a working class politician and agitator who was secretary of the parliamentary committee of the TUC; the second to John Barnes who, according to Buxton Forman's note, was "for many years a shopman at 29 New Bond Street; and when Morris's books were published there by Ellis, the poet used to present copies to Barnes & inscribe them..."
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