Published December 1888 with title page date 1889.
The title pages of the 1st ed. and its followers (facsimiles in this respect) display in one wrapped line with no punctuation but soft hyphen and closing dot:
A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kind[-]reds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse by William Morris.
(The 1st ed. and 1890 Roberts may be viewed at HathiTrust. See the publication records.)
Some library records thus fashion the full title:
A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse
- 1st ed., trade hardcover
(with a large paper format too)
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Published December 1888, as 1889.
This work (no format or price) is covered in "Books of the Week", The Scotsman 1888-12-31 p2: "Very few books--as was natural in the holidays--appeared during the course of last week. ..."
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Price from advertisement of this "New Work by William Morris", The Athenaeum #3191 1888-12-22 p863:
"In square post 8vo, cloth, 6s."
"A Limited Number on Special Paper, price on application to the Publishers."
(In the publisher's full-page list four weeks earlier, this title is annotated "Nearly ready".)
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HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with plain cloth cover (original?):
-- title page as 1899 displays (all caps, no punctuation but closing dot):
A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse by William Morris.
-- t.p. verso identifies Chiswick Press
-- narrative, p[1]-199
-- 16 leaves (p2-30 numbered): "December 1888: Reeves & Turner's Catalogue of Publications and Remainders"
- WorldCat record OCLC 3090343 reports a copy that contains 32 pages of publisher's advertisements at back, dated November 1889.
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Brtish Library record BL 002556587 reports the large paper, limited edition of 100 copies, 89 for sale.
