[Rarebooks] FS: Doves Press Morris and Ruskin

[Nina W. Matheson]

Greetings,
    We offer today these two fine Doves Press items.  Other books about the 
Doves Press may be found on our website:  http://www.mathesonbooks.com .

Mackail, J. W.   William Morris, an address delivered the XIth November 
MDCCCC at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, before the Hammersmith Socialist 
Society.  Hammersmith, The Doves Press, 1901. Original full limp vellum 
lettered in gold on the backstrip. Book-plate on the inside front cover. 
Pastedowns and (to a lesser extent) the text block wrinkled from expansion 
and contraction of the vellum, otherwise fine. The binding is signed by The 
Doves Bindery. 27 pp. Ransom / Private Presses and Their Books, p. 250 (300 
copies printed on paper).  $300.

Ruskin, John.   Unto this last: four essays on the first principles of 
political economy.  Hammersmith, The Doves Press, 1901. Dark blue full 
morocco binding decorated and lettered in gilt. Designed by 
Cobden-Sanderson and bound by the Doves Bindery, 1921. Book-plates of 
collectors Willis Vickery and Cortlandt Bishop on the front pastedown. 
Joints and corners rubbed, small piece missing at the top of the backstrip, 
the front and rear covers fine. Ransom / Private Presses and Their Books, 
p. 251 (300 copies printed on paper).  $1000.


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