Three (3) Walter Pater and William Morris Books. These three books are “The Child In The House: An Imaginary Portrait”, by Walter Pater”, “Some Great Churches in France, Three Essays”, by William Morris And Walter Pater, and “William Morris And The Arts And Crafts Movement, A Design Source Book” by Linda Parry. “The Child In The House: An Imaginary Portrait” was published in Portland Maine by Thomas Mosher in 1906, it’s the thirteenth edition, one of 425 copies on Japan vellum, in a fine binding by Root and Son and Charles E. Lauriat of Boston, with gilt decorations on the spine, double gilt-fillet borders with a gilt title on the front cover, gilt dentelles with marbled endpapers, 46 pages of text, the limitation page after the last page of text, and the top edge is gilt. The story is an autobiographical sketch by Pater (1839 - 1894), who was a noted English essayist, fiction writer, and art and literary critic; the story was first published in Macmillan's Magazine in 1878 and reprinted in 1894 by H. Daniel at his own press in Oxford, and several editions were printed after that. The book measures 5 1/4 x 3 5/8 in. wide and is in very good condition, with a tight binding and clean pages and text, rubbing along the edges of the spine and at the tips, and copies from the 1890’s and early 1900’s on Japan vellum still command a premium. “Some Great Churches in France, Three Essays” was written by William Morris And Walter Pater and published in Portland Maine by Thomas B. Mosher in 1912, it’s in a fine binding by The Harcourt Bindery, the third edition, one of only 425 copies printed on Japan vellum in November 1912, in crushed blue morocco, with five raised bands, six gilt-ruled compartments with gilt lettering and “1912” on the spine, a gilt-ruled border with gilt lettering and corner devices on the covers, wide gilt dentelles on gray-blue endpapers, the binder’s name at the bottom of the front paste-down, the title page, one page of Contents, a two-page Foreword, 108 pages of text, and the top edge is gilt. The book measures 5 3/8 x 3 5/8 in. wide and is in very good condition, with a tight bonding and just specks of rubbing at the heel and crown of the spine and at the tips. William Morris (1834 - 1896) was a famous British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, and printer associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement; in 1891, he founded his own press, the Kelmscott Press, to publish limited-edition illuminated-style books, and books produced by the Kelmscott Press are highly prized. “William Morris And The Arts And Crafts Movement, A Design Source Book” has an essay on textiles of the American Arts and Crafts movement by Gillian Moss of the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York and the book was published by Studio Editions in London in 1990; the first edition was published in 1989, and Linda Parry worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The book has an attractive dust jacket, purple boards with a gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers in the style of William Morris, an eighteen-page introduction by Gillian Moss, then 100 full-page colored plates and descriptions on the facing pages, starting with a stained-glass panel designed by Ford Madox Brown and William Morris circa 1860, and a source-list telling where the plates came from. The book is 4to.and measures 13 3/8 x 9 1/4 in. wide, the binding is tight and the pages and plates are clean and bright, there’s a tad lot rubbing at the extremities and light folds along the top edge for the dust jacket, and a very attractive book overall. The three books are an attractive grouping for William Morris and Walter Pater books, and two of them are limited editions. #235 #1649