The Collected Works. With Introductions by his Daughter May Morris [24 Vols.]

131/1,050 SETS (of which 1,000 were originally offered for sale), frontispieces and other plates and facsimiles, tissue-guards present, occasional slight spotting, largely restricted to prelims, endpapers and plate borders, each volume with illustrated bookplate of Roy McWilliams 8vo, contemporary half dark blue crushed morocco with blue marbled boards, backstrip gilt-lettered, with decorative gilt devices between raised bands, top edge gilt, blue ribbons, slight wear to edges of several volumes, one with neat repair to front hinge, very good. A smart set of the definitive edition of Morris' collected works, illuminated by the scholarly and personal reflections of his daughter, which trace the development of his aesthetic, literary and political thought. The illustrations include several photographic reproductions of the great man, manuscript facsimiles, two folding maps of Iceland, examples of Chaucer, Troy and Golden type, decorative borders, a fine reproduction of a reduced page from the Kelmscott Chaucer, and an illustration of a page from the Horatii flacci volume inscribed and illuminated by Morris, in full colour enhanced with gold and silver. (Walsdorf 113 &147).…