The Life of William Morris

London: Longmans, Green, and Co. , 1899. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". None. A complete two volume set of this first edition illustrated biography on William Morris. Two volumes. First edition. Volume one is illustrated with frontispiece and eleven plates. Volume two is illustrated with frontispiece and nine plates. Collated complete. The life of William Morris, a British textile designer, poet, artist, writer, architectural conservationist, printer, translator, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. Written by John William Mackail, a Scottish academic of Oxford University and reformer of the British education system known for this biography as well as his work on Virgil. From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, an important architectural historian who worked as an assistant architect to Stirling & Gowan, working on their particularly renowned Leicester University Engineering Laboratory. During his long career he taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture, Canterbury School of Architecture, and University of Nottingham. Later in his life he was the Vice-President and Honorary Librarian of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and contributed and edited the "Journal of Architecture". In the original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good Indeed