"An overview of the multi-faceted work of the English innovator, William Morris. This volume looks at the anti-industrialist who supported the artisan and the handmade object at a time when history was gazing clearly in the opposite direction."--Provided by publisher.
Forty of Victorian master's most famous designs for wallpapers, chintzes, velveteens, tapestries, tiles, carpets, and more. Reproduced from original color plates of The Art of William Morris.
In this biography, the acclaimed author of Sons of Providence, winner of the 2007 George Wash- ington Book Prize, recovers an immensely important part of the founding drama of the country in the story of Robert Morris, the man who financed ...
Since 1996, Richard Brookhiser has devoted himself to recovering the Founding for modern Americans. The creators of our democracy had both the temptations and the shortcomings of all men, combined...
Covering all of Hunt's major commissions--including his famous fifth Avenue mansions and Newport "cottages"--the book provides a fresh look at the artistic achievements of America's Gilded Age.
Morris-Jumel Mansion is an engaging look at the history of Manhattan's oldest residence.
A delightful look at the unique residences built by the famed co-founder of the Northwest School of Art
This first book about Morris provides a detailed account of his life and career on stage, film, radio and television, and as a celebrated magician.
Since his death in 1896, William Morris has come to be regarded as one of the giants of the nineteenth century. But his genius was so many-sided and so profound...
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. . Morris is a superb chronicler of Roosevelt’s busy, peripatetic life. . . . Abraham Lincoln may embody America’s soul, but Theodore Roosevelt has America’s heart.”—Chicago Tribune