ARCHITECTURE AND HISTORY, AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY: Comprising: Architecture and History. A Paper Read Before the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, on July I, 1884. Westminster Abbey. A Paper Written for the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in June, 1893.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original cloth backed hollande paper covered boards, title in black to the upper board. Publishers slip loosely laid in. Printed in black at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, with rubbing to the spine tips and corners and fading to the cloth spine, the boards moderately toned and marked. The contents, with some light spotting to the first and last few pages are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Publisher's slip is also spotted.

The Chiswick Press produced four uniform volumes containing William Morris's lectures, 'An Address Delivered at the Distribution of Prizes to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb 21, 1894' (1898), 'Art and the Beauty of the Earth' (1898) and 'Some Hints on Pattern Designing' (1899), with the present volume 'Architecture and History, and Westminster Abbey' (1900), the final in the series.