Some Hints on Pattern-Designing: A Lecture Delivered by William Morris at the Working Men's College, London, on December 10, 1881

Printed by Chiswick Press. Bound in publisher's original quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with blue linen spine and black titles to cover. Printed on fine, handmade, heavy paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon. [iv], 45, [iv] pp.  Part of a William Morris series comprising five octavo books printed at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by Morris for his Kelmscott Press, 1898-1901. "Lecture III: Some Hints on Pattern-Designing," was delivered by Morris at the Working Men's College, London, on December 10, 1881. The book was finished on the fourth day of October, 1899. An important essay which "summarizes succinctly views which would apply equally well to any branch of applied art." As Walter Crane wrote of Morris's far-reaching aesthetic philosophy, "if it has not turned all British craftsmen into artists or all British artists into craftsmen, it has done not little to expand and socialize the idea of art, and (perhaps it is not too much to say) has made the tasteful English house with its furniture and decorations a model for the civilized world." [PMM 367.]  Two small stains to front cover. Condition overall: Good+.