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William Morris : a life for our time / Fiona MacCarthy.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Kelmscott Press 37
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacCarthy, Fiona, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Morris, William, 1834-1896.
- Morris, William.
- Artists--England--Biography.
- Artists.
- Pre-Raphaelitism--England.
- Pre-Raphaelitism.
- England.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- MacCarthy, Fiona (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xix, [1], 780 pages, [88] pages of plates (some color) : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Place of printing not identified] : Printed ... by Clays Ltd ...
- Place of Publication:
- London : Faber and Faber, 1994.
- Summary:
- William Morris's genius was many-sided. This biography looks at the life and work of one of the greatest English designers of all time, who was also internationally renowned as a founder of the socialist movement and ranked as a poet together with Tennyson and Browning.
- Notes:
- "Photoset in Linotype Imprint by Parker Typesetting Service, Leicester Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc"--Verso of title leaf.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 683-744) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has a few manuscript marks in pencil in text; folded paper sheet with manuscript notes in pencil and ink laid in.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy signed by the author on title leaf.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has advertising bookmark for the Merriam Theater, Philadelphia, Pa., laid in.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0571142508
- 9780571142507
- OCLC:
- 31655207
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