HOMER: an address delivered on behalf of the Independent Labour Party.
Pp. 48(last colophon); demy 8vo; qr. vellum, spine lettered in black, brown papered boards, a trifle marked; fore-edges uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, above an earlier [commercial?] bookplate on the upper pastedown, undeciphered inked annotation on blank preliminary leaf, outer leaves and edges slightly foxed; printed at the Chiswick Press by Charles Whittingham & Co, and sold by The Hammersmith Publishing Society, Hammersmith, 1905. First edition; limitation not stated, but number stamped 217 at colophon. *With a presentation inscription to [Charles] Fairfax Murray from T. J. Cobden-Sanderson (dated 3 March 1906) on the upper free endpaper. Fairfax Muray was a painter, connoisseur, dealer and collector closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite circle. He was a friend of William Morris and the Rossettis, studio assistant to Edward Burne-Jones, and a protege of John Ruskin. Scottish academic John William Mackail (1859-1945) was Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1906 to 1911, and a friend and biographer of William Morris. Item #182534
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