From William Morris: Building Conservation and the Arts …, 2005, Fine w/DJ

Miele, Chris (Editor). From William Morris: Building Conservation and the Arts and Crafts Cult of Authenticity, 1877-1939 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005).

English, a Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, HC, 8vo, 10 1/2" x 7 1/2," 343 pp., including illustrations.

ISBN: 0300107307

Fine gray cloth-covered boards with silver foil lettering on spine. Covers pristine and intact, binding tight, sharp tips. Fine black paper dust jacket with white lettering on spine, full-page printed color photograph on front panel. Dust jacket pristine and intact, protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. Pages pristine and intact. A few black-and-white illustrations included. Beautiful monograph about William Morris and his influence on architectural conservation and the Arts and Crafts movement. Excerpt from front flap: "Chapters of the book address such diverse topics as the place of historical buildings in Morris's thinking, the relation of the Arts and Crafts Movement to Victorian ideas of heritage, the distortion of Morrisian ideals in the early twentieth-century New England, and the emergence of an urban vs. rural conservation culture."