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lxi, 386 pages : 29 cm "This work is the first full account in over a hundred years of William Morris's extensive writings. This bibliography gives close attention not only to what those writings are and when or by whom they were issued, but also to the ways by which they reached the public. The 'descriptive' aspect of the work, comprising detail taken from the books themselves considered as physical objects, provides the 'direct' evidence of how the books were made. Here, this is combined with the fullest possible account of what descriptive bibliographers like W.W. Gregg or Fredson Bowers call the 'collateral' evidence: information from trade journals, correspondence, printers' or publishers' archives and financial accounts, newspapers, diaries, histories, and bibliographies that bear on the process of publication and sometimes on the text itself. From these resources it is possible to illuminate the personal, commercial, legal, technological, aesthetic, and political influences affecting the emergence of the enormous body of literature that constitutes the Morris oeuvre. It is in the effort to combine true bibliographical description with the life of Morris and the histories of

Author

Eugene D. Lemire

Publisher

British Library Publishing Division

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780712349260

Subjects

Reference, Literary Fiction, Crafts & Hobbies