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

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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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. When the wife of Golden Walter betrays him for another man, he leaves home on a trading voyage to avoid the necessity of a feud with her family. His efforts are fruitless, as word comes to him en route that his wife’s clan has killed his father. As a storm then carries him to a faraway country, the effect of this news is merely to sunder his last ties to his homeland.

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

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. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he played a significant role in propagating the early socialist movement in Britain. Morris is recognised as one of the most significant cultural figures of Victorian Britain; though best known in his lifetime as a poet, he posthumously became better known for his designs. Early fantasy writers like Lord Dunsany, E. R. Eddison and James Branch Cabell were familiar with Morris’s romances. The Wood Beyond the World is considered to have heavily influenced C. S. Lewis’ Narnia series, while J. R. R. Tolkien was inspired by Morris’s reconstructions of early Germanic life in The House of the Wolfings and The Roots of the Mountains. The young Tolkien attempted a retelling of the story of Kullervo from the Kalevala in the style of The House of the Wolfings; Tolkien considered much of his literary work to have been inspired by an early reading of Morris, even suggesting that he was unable to better Morris’s work; the names of characters such as ”Gandolf” and the horse Silverfax appear in The Well at the World’s End.

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

Product Description: The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (1876) is an epic poem of over 10,000 lines by William Morris that tells the tragic story, drawn from the Volsunga Saga and the Elder Edda, of the Norse hero Sigmund, his son Sigurd (the equivalent of Siegfried in the Nibelungenlied and Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung) and Sigurd’s wife Gudrun...read more

Product Description: A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark 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: The Earthly Paradise by William Morris is an epic poem. It is a lengthy collection of retellings of various myths and legends from Greece and Scandinavia. It was begun in 1868 and several later volumes followed until 1870. The Earthly Paradise was generally well received by reviewers: according to one study it ”established Morris’s reputation as one of the foremost poets of his day”...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

William Morris (1834-1896), English textile designer, and Icelandic scholar Eirikr Magnusson (1833-1913) were the first to translate the Volsunga saga into English; Morris was so enthused by it that he went on to create his own epic retelling of the story, Sigurd the Volsung.

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