Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair. [2 Vols.]

Bookseller Notes

Clement Attlee's copies, presented to him by various colleagues, who have signed on the flyleaf (below the date, 3.10.46, during the early years of his premiership): Frederick Montague, Arthur Greenwood, Oliver Baldwin, Valentine McEntee, Harry Wallace, Alex Anderson, Frank Soskice, William Cluse - these the 'kind friends in the Socialist movement' referred to by Attlee in his 'Pleasure of Books' article for the National and English Review in 1954, where he mentions the 'high place assigned' to Morris on his shelves.Morris said of this edition 'When you come to look at it, and see that you get a book like this... for seven and sixpence a volume[!], it would be impossible to refuse buying them. I love my books, and I love making them, and I think of these... quite the most charming things issued from my press' (Ideal Book).