THE IDEAL BOOK : AN ADDRESS BY WILLIAM MORRIS

by William Morris

Limited to 300 numbered copies printed for George H. Broughton Jr. at the Calumet Press. Slight discoloring along inside margin; covers soiled. 20, 2 pages. original cloth-backed boards, paper cover label.. small 8vo..

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1899

About the author

William Morris was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, socialist and Marxist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris wrote and published poetry, fiction, and translations of ancient and medieval texts throughout his life. His best-known works include The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems (1858), The Earthly Paradise (1868–1870), A Dream of John Ball and the utopian News from Nowhere. He was an important figure in the emergence of socialism in Britain, founding the Socialist League in 1884, but breaking with the movement over goals and methods by the end of that decade. He devoted much of the rest of his life to the Kelmscott Press, which he founded in 1891. The 1896 Kelmscott edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is considered a masterpiece of book design.

Reviews

[Lauren Gaubert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reading a wall of text is far from ideal