One of 1,500 paper copies, out of a total edition of 1,545 copies. Sixteenmo (5 5/8 x 4 1/8 inches; 144 x 105 mm). [2], 68, [4, blank] pp. Printed in red and black in Golden type. Decorative woodcut initials.

Original quarter holland over blue gray boards. Text of title-page printed in black on front cover. A very good copy.

The first Kelmscott Press book printed in sixteenmo.

“This paper, first spoken as a lecture at the New Gallery, for the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society, in the year 1889, was printed by the Kelmscott Press during the Arts and Crafts Exhibition at the New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1893” (Colophon).

Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, pp. 27-28. Peterson A18. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 327, no. 18. Sparling 18. Tomkinson, p. 112, no. 18.

HBS # 65757 $850