WILLIAM MORRIS: SEIN LEBEN UND WERK IN DER GESCHICHTE DER BUCH- UND SCHRIFTKUNST

Scharbeutz: Klaus Blanckertz, 1949. quarter cloth with laid paper-covered boards and pictoral label on front cover, dust jacket. Morris, William. 4to. quarter cloth with laid paper-covered boards and pictoral label on front cover, dust jacket. 62+(1) pages. First edition. Fine in fine jacket.



The introduction, the only portion of the book simultaneously translated into English and German, states, "This monograph is intended to make the Germans more closely acquainted with William Morris the man and with his longing and striving for the truth of art...at the same time appreciating his eminent part in the recent German art of the book since the turn of the century and pointing to the important suggestions Morris in turn received from the works of our German mediaeval printers." Text printed in double columns with red chapter headings and shoulder notes in the style of Morris's perhaps most renowned publication, the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Title page printed in red and black. Woodcut portrait frontispiece of Morris tipped-in. Section of black and white plates at back with red captions in English represent the range of Morris's artistic talents, illustrating his paintings, stained glass window designs, wall-paper and tapestry patterns as well as a number of facsimiles of his book designs.