Product Description: A leader of the Arts and Crafts movementwhich valued handicrafts over mass-produced goodsWilliam Morris (English, 18341896) was also a writer, a founder of Englands socialist movement, and a designer of typefaces, fabrics, and wallpapers...read more

Product Description: These volumes bring to a close the only comprehensive edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834-1896), a protean figure who exerted a major influence as poet, craftsman, master printer, and designer. Volumes III and IV, taken together, give in detail the comments and observations that articulate his problematic political and artistic stands and equally problematic position within the aesthetic movement as it developed in the 1890s...read more

THE ART AND CRAFT OF PRINTING, BY WILLIAM MORRIS. A NOTE BY WlLLIAM MORRIS ON HIS AIMS IN Note on lines and lastly the position of the printed matter on the founding the page. It was a matter of course that I should consider it Kelmscott necessary that the paper should be handmade, both for Press the sake of durability and appearance. It would be a very false economy to stint in the quality of the paper as to price so I had only to think about the kind of hand-made paper. On this head I came to two conclusions lst, that the paper must be wholly of linen most hand-made papers of cotton today, and must be quite hard, i. e., thoroughly well sized and Sud, that, though it must be laid and not wove i. e., made on a mould made of obvious wires, the lines caused by the wires of the mould must not be too stront, so as to give a ribbed appearance. I found that on these-points I as at one withihe practice of the papermakers of the fifteenth century so I took as my model a Bolotnese Daoer of about 1473. My friend Mr. Batchelor; of Kent, carried out my views very satisfactorily, and produced from the first the excellent paper, which I still us. Next as to type. By instinct rather than by conscious thinking it over, I began by getting myself a font of Roman type. And here what I wanted was letter pure in form severe, without needless excrescences solid, without the thickening and thinning of the line. which is the essential fault of geordinary Godern type, and which makes it difficult to read and not compressed laterally, as alllater type has grown to be owiugto commerciai exigencies. There was only one source from which to take examples of this erfected Roman he, to wit, the works of the great enetian printers of hi fifteeth centur, of whom Nicholas Jenson produced the completest and most Roman characters from 1470 to 1476. This I studied with much care, getting it photographed to a Eg scale, and drawing it over many times before I began designing my own letter so that though I think I mastered the essence of it...........

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Signs of Change

The witch-wife took Birdalone from her mother when she was young, and raised the girl-child well enough, if not altogether happily. And perhaps there was a reason for all those things: as Birdalone matured, she took counsel from Habundia, a woman of the wood where the witch-wife feared to follow. She warns Birdalone that the only hope of escape is by water . . . and soon enough, Birdalone will escape from the witch-wife. And the act of that escape will begin a quest by sea . . .

Product Description: William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist. Associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement, he was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production...read more

Product Description: The Story of the Glittering Plain (full title: The Story of the Glittering Plain which has been also called the Land of Living Men or the Acre of the Undying) is an 1891 fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature...read more

Product Description: News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In the book, the narrator, William Guest, falls asleep after returning from a meeting of the Socialist League and awakes to find himself in a future society based on common ownership and democratic control of the means of production...read more

Product Description: A Dream of John Ball (1888) is a novel by English author William Morris about the Great Revolt of 1381, conventionally, but incorrectly (few of the participants were actual peasants), called "the Peasants' Revolt". It features the rebel priest John Ball, who was accused of being a Lollard but was really an early Leveller, the name given in the 17th century for what are today called socialists...read more

Product Description: The Wood Beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature...read more

Product Description: William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist. Associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement, he was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production...read more

Product Description: Morris (William). Signs of Change, 1888; The Story of the Glittering Plain, 1891; The Wood Beyond the World, 1895, Reeves and Turner/Lawrence and Bullen, 1st eds., occasional light toning, t.e.g., contemporary blue half morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spines with raised bands and gilt decoration (faded to green, joints rubbed), 8vo, together with other mixed eds...read more

Product Description: William Morris was born in Walthamstow, London on 24th March 1834 he is regarded today as a foremost poet, writer, textile designer, artist and libertarian. Morris began to publish poetry and short stories in 1856 through the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine which he founded with his friends and financed while at university...read more

Product Description: "The Wood Beyond the World" was first published in 1894 and its author, William Morris is often considered one of the authors who aided in the growth of fantasy, utopian literature, and science fiction. C.S. Lewis cites William Morris as one of his favorite authors and J...read more

Product Description: William Morris was a 19th century British novelist best known for helping pioneer the fantasy genre.

Product Description: William Morris was a 19th century British novelist best known for helping pioneer the fantasy genre.

Product Description: William Morris was a 19th century British novelist best known for helping pioneer the fantasy genre.

Product Description: William Morris was a 19th century British novelist best known for helping pioneer the fantasy genre.

Product Description: Es ist eine Erzählung über die siegreiche Arbeiterklasse im Jahr 2000. Ein wundervolles Bild der Verwirklichung revolutionärer Träume, wenn alle die Aufgaben übernehmen, die sie am besten machen können und wo jede Frau und jeder Mann genügend Freizeit für Lernen und Vergnügen hat...read more

Product Description: William Morris was a 19th century British novelist best known for helping pioneer the fantasy genre.