Morris, William:

$375 · Offered by William Reese Company

HOPES AND FEARS FOR ART. First American edition; originally published in London in the same year. Chapters are titled as follows: "The Lesser Arts...The Art of the People...The Beauty of Life...Making the Best of It...The Prospects of Architecture in Civilization." Morris's social and moral demands for a reform of the household arts was felt deeply in America - the Craftsman Movement of Gustav Stickley and Elbert Hubbard stems directly from this. Hitchcock has declared Morris's criticism to have been as influential on later architecture as Ruskin or Viollet-le-Duc; he was equally, if not more, important in the decorative arts, especially through the work of his firm, William Morris & Co. The publisher's binding is a handsome example of Aesthetic Movement design.

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