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    BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

  • John Ball first printed in The Commonweal, November 13, 1886, to January 22, 1887.
  • A Kings Lesson printed in The Commonweal, September 18, 1886, under the title of "An Old Story Retold."
  • First Edition, photogravure frontispiece by E. Burne-Jones, royal 16mo, Reeves & Turner, April 1888. Some copies on hand-made paper in pott quarto.
  • Printed at the Kelmscott Press in the Golden Type with the frontispiece reproduced as a woodcut, 4to, May 13, 1892.
  • Reprinted November 1889, January 1890 September 1892, and March 1895, without frontispiece.
  • Transferred to Longmans, Green & Co. June 1896
  • Reprinted July 1898 and September 1900, without frontispiece.
  • Reset with Frontispiece redrawn and printed as a block, January 1903.
  • Reprinted January. 1903, June 1907, January 1910, and January 1912.
  • 250 copies on hand-made paper March 1903.
  • A Kings Lesson only, reprinted 1891 as a Sixteen page pamphlet, and published by James Leatham, Aberdeen.
  • Included in Volume XVI of the Collected Works of William Morris, August 1912.
  • Included in Longman's Pocket Library, September 1913, reprinted July 1918, April 1920, April 1924, and January 1928.
  • Included in the Swan Library, and reprinted March 1933, January 1936, and April 1938.
  • Printed in Great Britain