Four letters from William Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, William, 1834-1896, author.

Stansky, Peter, 1932- author of foreward.

Contributor:

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915, artist.

Arion Press, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morris, William, 1834-1896.

Morris, William.

Morris, William, 1834-1896. Correspondence.

Genre:

Personal correspondence.

Keepsakes.

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copies)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copies)

Physical Description:

15, [1] pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Other Title:

WM: four letters from William Morris

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Arion Press, 1984.

Notes:

Foreword by Peter Stansky.

Membership card for the Socialist League designed by Walter Crane in 1884, with a portrait of Morris as a blacksmith, bearing the signatures of Emery Walker, Branch Secretary and William Morris, Treasurer, reproduced on title page.

"Is published on the 150th anniversary of his birth, March 24, 1984 ... ."--title page.

"Four hundred copies printed for the meeting of the North American and Pacific Coast Conferences of British Studies, held at Asilomar, on the Monterey Peninsula, California, from March 23 to 25, 1984, & for subscribers to the Arion Press, San Francisco"--Colophon

Printed in red and black.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy 2 has inscription: "For Tom --in memory of a book [dear to Morris's heart] day [and Morris's birthday] at Asilomar. March 24, 1984. Peter"

OCLC:

11200190