Morris William, Art, its cares and hopes. I. The lower arts [1902, Arts & Crafts, lecture].

Morris William, Art, its cares and hopes. I. Lower Arts
Kraków, 1902.; Published: by D.E. Friedlein's Bookstore in Kraków under the direction of Jozef Münnich, Market Square. Warsaw E.Wende and Sp.; Printed: with the fonts of the Literary Printing House (under the management of L.K. Gorski in Cracow, Jagiellońska Street L.10.); Translated by Edmund Bieder.
Publisher's booklet cover, pp.59,[1], format 24.2 x 14.7 cm.

Condition: creases and small cracks on edges of cover, soiling, spotting (especially on cover) middle relatively clean, slightly yellowed paper, spine and block cracked, but overall holding well. Library mark on cover, in ink: 1245; otherwise, stamp on reverse of title page: M. Rey Gimn. Library in Warsaw, Wł. Nawrocki Book Collection (with annotated item number: S. 1330.).

William Morris (1834-1896) - poet, novelist (fantasy), painter, architect, designer, socialist activist. Co-founder of the Arts & Crafts movement (the British variety of Art Nouveau).
A translation of the first in a series of readings by William Morris on art, which appeared in print in 1882 in "Hopes and fears of art", the first Polish reprints of this work appeared in 1902 (offered here and more extensively published by Przegląd Tygodniowy).