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Title: William Morris: His Life, Work and Friends
Author: Philip Henderson
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication Date: 1973
Format: Paperback
Condition: Soft covers with picture of Morris to the front with a crease to the rear cover corner. The pages are clean with no ink or pencil marks and are tanned slightly due to age. Some illustrations to the middle of the book. Previous owners has written Morris’s birth and death date to the front.
Book measures 18cm x 11cm with 463 pages.
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William Morris was a British textile designer, poet, artist, fantasy writer, architectural conservationist, printer, 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 helped win acceptance of socialism in fin de siècle Great Britain.
In this biography, Henderson shows Morris as ‘Not a dreamer lost in sentimental visions of the middle ages, but a man determined to preserve all that is most valuable in our heritage
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