The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume IV: 1893-1896

The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume IV: 1893-1896

The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume IV: 1893-1896

The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume IV: 1893-1896

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Overview

These volumes bring to a close the only comprehensive edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834-1896), a protean figure who exerted a major influence as poet, craftsman, master printer, and designer. Volumes III and IV, taken together, give in detail the comments and observations that articulate his problematic political and artistic stands and equally problematic position within the aesthetic movement as it developed in the 1890s. Most eloquently voiced also are the complexities of his troubled marriage and his devotion to his epileptic daughter, Jenny, and his other daughter, May. But dominating all these themes, organizing and structuring them, are the Kelmscott Press and the building of Morris's important library of medieval manuscripts and early printed books. The letters record the way in which the Press becomes not only the center of Morris's aesthetic ambitions and achievements but also the site for his closest human relations and for much of his connecting with the makers of early modernism.

The letters in Volumes III and IV are thoroughly annotated, and through texts and notes provide a new assessment of Morris's career. Included also, as appendices to Volume IV, are two important documents: the first, never before published, is F. S. Ellis's Valuation List of Morris's library, made after Morris's death, and the second, never before reprinted, is the text of what was to be Morris's final essay on socialism, published in April 1896.

Originally published in 1996.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780691608181
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 07/14/2014
Series: Princeton Legacy Library , #325
Pages: 526
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix

EDITORIAL PRACTICES xv

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii

INTRODUCTION XiX

MORRIS CHRONOLOGY xxxix

ABBREVIATIONS OF MANUSCRIPT LOCATIONS xiv

ABBREVIATIONS OF WORKS FREQUENTLY CITED Ii

THE LETTERS - 1893-1896 3

APPENDIX A. The Present Outlook of Socialism in England by William Morris 393

APPENDIX B. Valuation of Library of William Morris by Frederick Startridge Ellis 401

APPENDIX c. Froissart's Chronicles, Selected Items 435

INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS 439

SUBJECT INDEX 441

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