Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Morris, William, 1834-1896
Title:
The story of the Glittering plain : which has been also called the Land of living men or the Acre of the undying / Written by William Morris.
Published / Created:
[Hammersmith : Kelmscott Press, 1891]
Physical Description:
[4], 188 p. ; 21 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR5079 .S7 1891
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN 1979 715, BEIN Ip M834 891s: copy on paper.

First edition in book form.

Colophon: Here endeth the Glittering Plain, printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall Hammersmith, in the county of Middlesex: and finished on the 4th day of April ... 1891. Sold by Reeves & Turner 196 Strand London.

200 copies on paper, and 6 on vellum.

Reissued in large quarto, with illustrations, etc., by Walter Crane, in 1894.

Peterson, W.S. Bibliography of the Kelmscott Press A1

BAC: British Art Center copy is one of 6 on vellum. Partially unopened. Bound in vellum with wash leather ties.
Subject Terms:
Kelmscott Press -- Publisher. (BACRB) | Morris, William -- Printer. (BACRB) | Dixon, Laurence B. -- Bookplate (BEIN Ip M834 891S) | Woodcut -- Specimens -- 1891. (BACRB)
Contributors:
Kelmscott Press.