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FULSOMELY INSCRIBED TO A SOUL MATEfirst edition thus, revised and enlarged 8vo. 180pp., blue cloth, spine gilt lettered, fine bright copy in nice dust jacket.
Inscribed on front endpaper "For R. V. Williams, Richard Rowley and Dick Williams - three in one and one in three and all excellent from his friend/ Holbrook Jackson/ L'Etoile/ London/ 13:x:26".
Jackson had published a book on Morris in 1908 but as he states in his preface this 1926 edition is "a new book". When asked to prepare a new edition he found that "his point of view with regard to certain phases of Morris's work had changed .. [and] his interest in the subject revived to such an extent that I found myself re-writing the book. All the old chapters have been revised and extended, and four new chapters have been added. One, 'A portrait of William Morris', is an attempt at a word-picture of the man as he was in his prime; another is devoted to the Kelmscott press; a third to Morris's literary work; and in the concluding chapter I have… Read More