[8] At the Ellis Sale a presentation vellum copy brought £60.
[9] In this line as it originally stood, “dawn” was the rhyme provided for “corn.” In the new line the rhyme for corn is “daylight new-born;” but Mr. Buxton Forman writes that Morris was wont to declare that “No South Englishman makes any difference in ordinary talk between dawn and morn for instance.”
[10] “When Adam dalf and Eve span, who was thanne the gentleman.”
[11] This book realised at the Ellis Sale £8.5s. for the paper copy, and £61 in vellum. Since its publication it has sold as low as £2.15s. for paper copies, and £29 for vellum.
[12] Mr. Ellis’s presentation copy sold for £91.
[13] This “foreword” is a socialist document occupying pp. III to VIII.
[14] At the Ellis Sale a copy on vellum (not presentation) brought £9.10s.
[15] This story Morris said he translated in a day and a quarter.
[16] At the Ellis Sale a paper copy brought £25.10s., while in 1900 one brought £27.5s.
[17] Mr. Vallance says, “This is noteworthy as being the sole instance of a heraldic device among the published designs of William Morris.”