William Morris
Hopes and Fears for Art: Five Lectures Delivered in Birmingham, London, and Nottingham 1878-1881
London, Ellis & White, 1883. Cloth. A scarce third edition of this collections of lectures from British artist and textile designer, William Morris. Third edition. Scarce work. A collection of five lectures on art, delivered in Birmingham, London, and Nottingham, including: The Lesser Arts, The Art of the People, The Beauty of Life, Making the Best of It, and The Prospects of Architecture in Civilisation. Written and spoken by William Morris, a British textile designer, poet, artist, writer, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, an important architectural historian who worked as an assistant architect to Stirling & Gowan, working on their particularly renowned Leicester University Engineering Laboratory. During his long career he taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture, Canterbury School of Architecture, and University of Nottingham. Later in his life he was the Vice-President and Honorary Librarian of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and contributed and edited the "Journal of Architecture". In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and bumping to the extremities. Joints starting to the head of the spine but firm. Minor loss to the spine label. The odd mark to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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