A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson, LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, printed in red and black, wood-engraved frontispiece by W.H. Hooper after Edward Burne-Jones, ornamental borders and initials, bookplate of Joseph Silkin, publisher's limp vellum, silk ties [Peterson A6], small 4to, Kelmscott Press, 1892
With an engraved plate after an illustration by Edward Burne-Jones, and an initial and a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's red cloth, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Rubbed, lightly marked, spine sunned, lettering-piece chipped, corners bumped. Endpapers spotted, contemporary inked gift inscription to head of title: 'Hannah, with Howard's love & Easter good wishes. 1889'. The first edition in book form of two short prose stories by William Morris (1834-1896), both initially published in the short-lived periodical Commonweal, a socialist newspaper founded in 1885 by the newborn Socialist League under the direction of Morris himself.