Easily the most ambitious book project by Ray Nichols & Jill Cypher of Lead Graffiti, The Multifaceted Mr. Morris is the catalogue of the William Morris exhibition mounted in the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection at the University of Delaware for the “Useful & Beautiful” conference held in October 2010. More than 30 books, manuscripts, drawings, and other works are described and …
Is this interminable winter getting to you? Are you looking for a great new book to sink your teeth into? Check out the full list of titles that are currently available for sale from the William Morris Society in the United States through the following URL: www.morrissociety.org/ahobooks.pdf Life member Gary L. Aho, professor emeritus of …
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The online bookstore, Advanced Book Exchange, one of the largest seller of secondhand, antiquarian, and rare books, recently posted a short piece on “Collecting Kelmscott: William Morris & His Quest for Fine Books.” Admittedly an enticement for people to buy books offered by ABE’s booksellers, the article reads as follows: More than 100 years after …
Peter Lang has just published William Morris in the Twenty-First Century, an outstanding collection of essays edited by Rosie Miles and Phillippa Bennett and drawn from papers presented at the William Morris Society conference held in London in 2005. The book contains essays from scholars and professionals researching and working in fields relevant to Morris’s …
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