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# - [Morris, William]. TWELVE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS FOR KELMSCOTT PRESS CAPITAL LETTERS, COMPRISING: 'H', 'B', 'P' and 'Q', each 17 by 20mm. on one sheet; 'A', 'L' and 'R', each 28 by 28mm. on one sheet; 'Q', 'R' and 'S', each 28 by 28mm. on one sheet, 'A' with additional marginal design and note below mount 'reduce to same height as the 10', 35 by 35mm. on one sheet; 'C', 47 by 46mm., ink and pencil drawings heightened with white, all mounted and framed together--The Defence of Guenevere. John Lane, 1904, illustrated by Jessie M. Smith original pictorial cloth gilt, with pocket at rear noting provenance of 'original sketches of lettering... by William Morris from Miss May Morris', binding worn Peterson quotes Cockerell's comments on Morris' working practices as follows: '...he roughed out his design in pencil - then drew it carefully with his black brush, correcting with white and then again with black as he went on...' (Peterson, p.xxxi)