The History Of Godefrey Of Boloyne And Of The Conquest Of Iherusalem. The Kelmscott Press, upper mall hammer-smith, 1893. one of 300 copies on paper, of a total edition of 306 (6 on vellum). 29.1 x 21 x 5 cm; pp. xxiv + 452. troy type (table of contents and glossary in chaucer type) on Batchelor hand-made paper with the Primrose watermark. two full-page woodcut borders and title, side, corner, half and three-quarter woodcut borders, and numerous woodcut initials; chapter titles in red. original full limp vellum, with red silk ties; title gilt on spine. The History Of Godefrey Of Bologne was the fifth and last of William Morris’s books after the man who introduced printing into England, William Caxton. Morris used Caxton's 1481 edition corrected for the press by Morris's son-in-law, H. Halliday Sparling.
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