Biblia Innocentium: Being the Story of God's Chosen People before the Coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ upon Earth

Details

Date: 1892
Dimensions: 21.5 x 15 x 2.5 (closed)
Object Type: book
Catalogue number: K445
Manufacturer: Kelmscott Press | 1891 | 1898
Author: Mackail, John William , Professor (1859 - 1945)
Credit notes: Transfer from Walthamstow Reference Library, 1953

8vo, stiff vellum with brown silk ties in green paper slipcase, golden type in black and red ink, ex-libris T. Hugh Cobb on front pastedown, W. Morris woodcut title and initials, uncut, some leaves unopened.

Written anew for children by J.W. Mackail. 200 paper copies, none on vellum. J.W. Mackail was Edward Burne-Jones’ son-in-law and later Morris’ biographer. He was also a socialist, Virgil scholar, professor of poetry at Oxford and president of the British Academy.