William Morris Full-Color Patterns and Designs A professional magician and friend

A professional magician and friend of Houdini

and other luminaries

Bruce Price

Life on the Mississippi in the heyday of the steamboat lives in our imaginations through the artistry of Mark Twain

Lavishly illustrated with original 19th-century drawings by Walter Crane

William Morris Full-Color Patterns and Designs A professional magician and friendDefining beauty in art as the result of man's pleasure in his work, the noted English poet, designer, craftsman and pioneer Socialist William Morris (18341896) spent most of his life enthusiastically expounding this view through his many attractive designs for interior furnishings. The present book faithfully reproduces 40 of the most celebrated examples of Morris's work, reprinting in full color all the color plates from The Art of William Morris,