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copies on vellum were sold, at twelve and fifteen
guineas.Thiswas the only book with washleather
ties* All the other vellum/bound books have silk
ties, except Shelley’s Poems and Hand and Soul,
which have no ties.
2. POEMS BYTHE WAY. WRITTEN
BY WILLI AM MORRIS. Small4to. Golden
type. In black & red. Border i. 300 paper copies at
two guineas, 13 on vellum atabouttwelve guineas.
Dated Sept. 24, issued Oct. 20, 1891. Sold by
Reeves & Turner. Bound in stiff vellum.
j^This was the first book printed at the Kelms^
cott Pressin two colours, & the first bookin which
the smaller printer’s mark appeared. After The
Glittering Plain was finished, at the beginningof
April, no printing was done until May n. In the
meanwhile the compositors were busy setting up
the early sheets of The Golden Legend. The
printingof Poems by the Way, which its author
first thought of calling Flores Atramenti, was not
begun until July. The poems in it were written at
various times. In themanuscript,Hafbur&Signy
is dated February 4,1870; Hildebrand &Hillilel,
March 1, 1871; and Love’s Reward, Kelmscott,
April 21,1871. Meeting in Winter is a song from
The Story of Orpheus, an unpublished poem inz
tended for The Earthly Paradise. The last poem
in the book, Goldilocks & Goldilocks, was writz
ten on May 20,1891, for the purpose of adding to
the bulk of the volume, which was then being
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guineas.Thiswas the only book with washleather
ties* All the other vellum/bound books have silk
ties, except Shelley’s Poems and Hand and Soul,
which have no ties.
2. POEMS BYTHE WAY. WRITTEN
BY WILLI AM MORRIS. Small4to. Golden
type. In black & red. Border i. 300 paper copies at
two guineas, 13 on vellum atabouttwelve guineas.
Dated Sept. 24, issued Oct. 20, 1891. Sold by
Reeves & Turner. Bound in stiff vellum.
j^This was the first book printed at the Kelms^
cott Pressin two colours, & the first bookin which
the smaller printer’s mark appeared. After The
Glittering Plain was finished, at the beginningof
April, no printing was done until May n. In the
meanwhile the compositors were busy setting up
the early sheets of The Golden Legend. The
printingof Poems by the Way, which its author
first thought of calling Flores Atramenti, was not
begun until July. The poems in it were written at
various times. In themanuscript,Hafbur&Signy
is dated February 4,1870; Hildebrand &Hillilel,
March 1, 1871; and Love’s Reward, Kelmscott,
April 21,1871. Meeting in Winter is a song from
The Story of Orpheus, an unpublished poem inz
tended for The Earthly Paradise. The last poem
in the book, Goldilocks & Goldilocks, was writz
ten on May 20,1891, for the purpose of adding to
the bulk of the volume, which was then being
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