A FINE COPY OF DUNLAP’S AUTHORITATIVE STUDY OF MORRIS AND BURNE-JONES’S PROJECTED BUT UNREALISED EDITION OF THE EARTHLY PARADISE

Full title: The Book that Never Was. The Argument: How William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones Attempted to Make of The Earthly Paradise a Big Book with “Lots of Stories and Pictures”; How they Fared in this Endeavor; and How their Dream, though it Evaded them, has yet Outlived them.

Octavo (254 x 176mm), pp. [6 (half-title, verso blank, title, copyright statement, acknowledgements, blank)], 86, [4 (final blank ll.)]. 24 full-page facsimiles after William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, et al. (Small marginal paper-flaw on p. 58.) Original linen-backed light-blue cloth lettered and decorated in blue on the spine, grey endpapers, printed dustwrapper, and slipcase. A fine copy