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[FINE PRESS & LIVRE D’ARTISTE]. –– [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. Syr Ysambrace. Edited by F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897. 8vo. Printed in Chaucer type in red and black, two full–page woodcuts by Burne–Jones, woodcut vine borders and capital initials. Early full crushed morocco, 5 raised bands, gilt titles in compartments, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, stamped by Zaehnsdorf bindery (upper cover detached, uneven toning to extremities). LIMITED EDITION, one of 350 copies on flower paper of a total edition of 358. Cockerell 48; Franklin, The Private Presses, p. 193; Peterson A48; Ransom, p. 331. “Syr Ysambrace” is the last in the series of medieval metrical romances that the Kelmscott Press produced in the 1890s that were originally drawn from Halliwell’s manuscript “Thornton Romances” at the Library of Lincoln Cathedral and was intended to include “Sir Eglamour” in the same volume.