Published in 1930 by The Fanfrolico Press, this privately printed book contains two poems by William Morris that are accompanied by eight collotype plates after drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Fanfrolico Press began in Sydney, Australia and later moved to London, where this book was printed and published. The two poems included, ‘The Defense of Guenevere’ and ‘King Arthur’s Tomb’ stem from Morris’s early interest in Arthurian legends and were first published by Morris in 1858.
The book is printed on handmade Barcham Green paper from Hayle Mill in Kent, it is printed in Weiss Antiqua type which was designed by the German typographer Emil Rudolf Weiss in 1928. It is the seventh book printed by The Fanfrolico Press and this copy is edition 220 of 450.
