Author: Gerald H. Crow; C. G. Holme [editor]
Title: William Morris Designer
Description: London, The Studio Ltd, 1934. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated special Winter edition of The Studio magazine, with a focus on English designer William Morris. First edition. Illustrated with twenty-eight monotone images, including the frontispiece, and four colour plates. Collated complete. A special Winter edition of The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, an illustrated fine arts and decorative arts magazine published in London from 1893 until 1964. This edition focuses on William Morris, an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. With chapters on the making of a Romantic altruist, kinship with failure, and the palace of art, amongst others. Written by Gerald H. Crow, a British journalist and art historian. Edited by Charles Holme, an English journalist and art critic who was the founding editor of The Studio. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is smart with light wear to the extremities and spotting to the rear panel. Sunning to the spine and panel edges with the odd small closed tear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with scattered spotting and light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: William Morris. Very Good/Very Good.

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