Three lectures printed by the Chiswick Press, using the "Golden" type of the Kelmscott Press.

3 vol., 8vo.

Contemp. quarter cloth, blue paper over boards, flat spines (sl. browned, spines discol., sm. def. at heads & tails, 1 ms. titled). Each vol. in mod. folder by Nicole Diercxsens-Beeckmans: brown quarter cloth, decorated paper over covers, calligraphed title labels on front covers and spines. Mod. slipcases. Good set.

1. An address delivered by William Morris at the distribution of prizes to students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb. 21, 1894. London, Chiswick Press for Longmans & Co, April 1898. [2]-25 pp. Unopened copy. With loose printed paper slip "The Kelmscott Press is now closed, and all the wood blocks of the initials and ornaments have been given to the British Museum. The type still remains under the control of the trustees, for whom this book was printed at the Chiswick Press". - 2. Architecture and history, and Westminster Abbey. Ibid., December 1900. [2]-50 pp. - 3. Art and its producers, and the arts & crafts of today: two addresses delivered before the National Association for the Advancement of Art. Ibid., April 1901. [2]-47 pp.
Prov. Berta Nabersberg Briggs (1884-1976), American painter and woodcutter (bookpl. and ms. entry "Christmas 1908" in vol. II & III).