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Hammersmith, England: Kelmscott Press, 1893. Very Good+. One of 310 paper copies. There were also 6 vellum copies. This beautiful book from the Kelmscott Press was intended as a companion volume to Rossetti's Sonnets and Lyrical Poems, issued early in the following year. Both titles were printed for Ellis & Elvey as agreed to by William Morris. Ellis & Elvey paid the press production costs and they later wrote to William Michael Rossetti, brother of Dante Gabriel and his literary executor, that the two titles had sold well [Peterson bibliography A20]. This rather scarce Kelmscott title is bound in the original full vellum with yapp edges and all four of the fragile brown silk ties. Title and author are stamped in gold on the spine. The vellum is clean and bright. Printed on Flower paper in red and black in Golden type. With a woodcut title page and facing full page woodcut border. There are lovely six and ten-line initials throughout with some lines and shoulder titles in red. The…