Morris(W.) Neale Good King Wenceslas, Ltd ed. 1898

Morris (William).-

Neale (Dr John Mason)

Good King Wenceslas, a Carol...with an Introduction by William Morris, one of 125 copies, inscribed ‘To Helen from A.J.Gaskin & G.C.Gaskin 1898’ to front endpaper, illustrations and decorations by Gaskin, original buckram-backed printed blue boards, a little rubbed and marked, 4to, Birmingham, printed by Gaskin at the Press of the Guild of Handicraft, 1895 § Golden Cockerel Press. Cupid and Psyches, # 28 of 150 copies, engravings by Lettice Sandford, original buckram backed marbled boards, foxing to front and rear paste-downs, spine slightly darkened, bookplate of F.E.Dinshaw and another to front pastedown, 1924, 4to. & 8vo.

*** F.E. Dinshaw was an industrialist in India and one of Mumbai's biggest landlords. This bookplate shows an image of a woman's head inside a foliate roundel. Below this is written: Ex-Libris F. E. Dinshaw.