[Kelmscott Press] Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile

Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, March 13, 1894. First edition (one of 500 copies on Perch paper, from a total of 515). 16mo. (ii), 67 pp. Text printed in red and in black Chaucer type. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece, within full-page woodcut borders, as well as full woodcut border on p. (1), and woodcut initials. Publisher's quarter oatmeal cloth over blue paper-covered boards, stamped in black. Peterson A23; Tomkinson 23

Fine first edition of William Morris' English translation of this medieval French romance. One of the most charming of the smaller-format Kelmscott publications.