william morris forward (1 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Near Fine. Limited Edition. One of a limited 300 copies. Bound in publisher's limp vellum with two green ties and spine lettered in gilt. xiv, 282, [1]. Printed in red and black with woodcut initials and two varying borders of floral motifs and grapevines. Near Fine with splaying to covers, faint rubbing to vellum, one tie remaining. Light foxing to textblock edges, armorial bookplate and toned newspaper clipping related to Kelmscott at front free endpaper. A beautiful Kelmscott production of the Renaissance humanist's socio-poltical satire. More's manifesto called for an ideal state that exemplified virtue, wisdom, temperance and justice, all ideologies that Morris himself vouched for and professed in his News From Nowhere or, an Epoch of Rest, Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance (1890) Peterson A16.