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258) Grey havens Bookshop
Monterey BookFair
Aug.'87
$5.00

Jacobus de Voragine (1230 - 98)
The Golden Legend - 3 vol. Quarto.
London , Hammersmith 16 , Upper Mall : William
Morris (1834 - 1896 ) Nov. 3 1892 (iss ued) Sprling #7
Edited by F.S. Ellis , from the Caxton printing .
Pages XIV , 1286 & 2 title leaves for volumes II & III .
500 copies, all on paper. Sancto remigio (Oct.)
p.885-6 1113 Saint Remyge.

Vol.1 1-464 - p.{321 y1 Saynt Remyge.
II 465 Lh, - 864 {323 Here endeth the lif of
III 865 kkk, - 1286. Saynt Remige .
p{884 St. Jeromme
{887 Thus endeth the Translacion of Saint Remyge.
Pages XIV , 1286 & title leaves for Volumes II & III.
Golden Legend - includes the 1st of the great woodcut
titles designed by Morris & the 1st illustration
designed by Burne - Jones for the Kelmocott Press.
Watermarks - flower , perch , apple.
Golden Legend - The title page is the 1st to be designed William Morris .
While W. de Worde was engaged on last black letter
ed. (see #17) of the Golden Legend , W. Tyndale was busy
at Cologne , undeavowing to get into type the 1st ed
of the New Testament in English .
The Voragine is the 1st major product of the Kelmscott
press , and it gave its name to the famous "Golden Type".
baptised Clovis , Easter 496 - St. Remigius , or Remi - called the Founder of the Church of God in France
Bishop of Rheims for 72 years (- AD 530) - Oct. 1
A Biblio . of the Kelmscott Press , William S. Peterson . Oxford, 1984.
Peterson A7 ; Sparling 7 ; Tomkinson , p. 109.
8 - The Recuyell
10 - Reynard
40 - Chaucer