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The William Morris Society, distributed by Moretus Press, New York and Shiremanstown, Pennsylvania. Published 1978. Hardcover, 148 pp.; 23 cm; illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of Edward Burne-Jones's illustrations for the Kelmscott Press edition of the poem.
In very good condition, no dust jacket. Tan cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, light surface and edge wear. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. A collection of scholarly studies on William Morris's epic The Story of Sigurd the Volsung (1876), Morris's own favorite among his poems and his large-scale retelling of the Norse Volsunga saga, the same Sigurd and Niblung legend that underlies Wagner's Ring. The second volume of studies issued by the William Morris Society, gathering papers from the special session on Sigurd at the 1976 Modern Language Association convention in New York, edited with an introduction by John Hollow. Contents: An Introduction, Sinfiotli (John Hollow); The Craft of Revision, Morris and Sigurd the Volsung (Stuart Blersch); The Victorian Skald, Old Icelandic and the Evolution of William Morris' Sigurd the Volsung (Anthony Ugolnik); Iceland and William Morris, In Search of the Whole (Emily Meredith); The Lovers of Gudrun, Sigurd the Volsung, and The House of the Wolfings, Three Chapters in a Tale of the Individual and the Tribe (Dennis Balch); Morrissaga, Sigurd the Volsung (Hartley S. Spatt).