The thirty-first block in the series (numbers corresponding to a list copied from one written by William Morris). Printed with the thirty-third block on a single sheet: P.12173-R(b). The blocks were cut c.1868-8, but these proofs were probably printed in the 1880s. Sheet has two "Primrose" watermarks. Around fifty of the designs for Morris's poems, "The Earthly Paradise", were cut as woodblocks by William Morris, George Campfield, Elizabeth Burden and George Wardle, though Morris later abandoned the project. According to a list copied from one made by William Morris, which lists the titles and block cutter's names, the set owned by the Fitzwilliam is incomplete. J.R. Holliday also owned a bound volume containing 86 studies for illustrations to 'The Story of Cupid and Psyche' and a collection of tracings of the designs, which he bequeathed to Birmingham Art Gallery.
""Receive me, Love, chosen to be thy bride From all the million women of the world!" Then o'er the cliff her wicked limbs were hurled." William Morris - The Earthly Paradise Quoted by G Uerscheln & M Kalusok p 212 "And passing on, amidst an oak-grove found A pillared temple gold-adorned and round Whose walls were hung with rich and precious things Worthy to be the ransom of great kings; And in the midst of gold and ivory An image of Queen Juno did she see." William Morris - The Earthly Paradise Quoted by G Uerscheln & M Kalusok p 216