A FINE COPY OF DUNLAP’S AUTHORITATIVE STUDY OF MORRIS AND BURNE-JONES’S
PROJECTED BUT UNREALISED EDITION OF THE EARTHLY PARADISE
DUNLAP, Joseph Riggs. The Book that Never Was. The Argument: How William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones Attempted to Make of The Earthly Paradise a Big Book with “Lots of Stories and Pictures”; How they Fared in this Endeavor; and How their Dream, though it Evaded them, has yet Outlived them. New York: Oriole Editions, 1971.
Octavo (254 x 176mm), pp. [6 (half-title, verso blank, title, copyright statement, acknowledgements, blank)], 86, [4 (final blank ll.)]. 24 full-page facsimiles after William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, et al. (Small marginal paper-flaw on p. 58.) Original linen-backed light-blue cloth lettered and decorated in blue on the spine, grey endpapers, printed dustwrapper, and slipcase. A fine copy.
First edition. An authoritative account by the noted Morris scholar Dunlap (1913-2004) of William Morris’s unsuccessful attempts to publish an edition of his poem The Earthly Paradise illustrated by Edward Burne-Jones in the 1860s. Although Burne-Jones produced a number of drawings, some of which were engraved by Morris, the edition was abandoned (as was a later projected Kelmscott Press edition), and they remained unpublished until 1974, when the woodcuts were published in The Story of Cupid and Psyche by Clover Hill Editions.
£49.50
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