Scenes from the Fall of Troy and Other Poems, and Fragments

1915, Limited edition being Volume XXIV of the Collected Works of William Morris.

Author

William Morris, with an introduction by his Daughter May Morris

Publisher

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1915

Scenes from the Fall of Troy and Other Poems, and Fragments

Printing Details

Limited edition (this being no 356 of 1050). Hardback, cloth spine with title label, paper covered boards. Untrimmed page edges. 23.5 × 16cm, xxxv + 417pp.

An odd volume from the Collected Works set, this copy containing an introduction by May Morris, with a full page plate of a reduced page from the Kelmscott Chaucer, and a frontispiece portrait of William Morris (both tissue-guarded). This is followed by Morris's dramatic poems on Scenes from the Fall of Troy along with other fragments and poems.

Condition

The spine and boards are grubby and bumped with the title label starting to peel off (the spare label at the rear has been used). There is a previous owner's name to the ffep. The book remains in strong readable condition with some light and intermittent foxing.