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In August 1897 Sydney Cockerell, on behalf of the William Morris estate,
sold to Henry Gamman (1855-1926), an English businessman, Morris's own
set of vellum copies of the Kelmscott Press books. By the 1920s these
books were in the hands of Marsden J. Perry in Rhode Island. So far I
have been unable to discover when or how Gamman sold this vellum set, or
when or how Perry acquired it.
If anyone on this list knows of an auction or dealer catalogue or any
other piece of evidence that might shed light on this question, I would
like to hear from you -- off-list, if you prefer.