Arts and Crafts Book Covers

by Malcolm Haslam

Before the age of the paper book jacket, publishers issued their books in cloth-covered boards, which were stamped with designs in golf leaf and color. From around 1860, artists of the Arts and Crafts movement supplied many of the best designs. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris and Walter Crane led the way, and they were followed in the 1890s by Laurence Housman, Charles Ricketts and Selwyn Image, among others. Prominent Arts and Crafts architects,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0955374189
• ISBN13: 9780955374180
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Richard Dennie Publication
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.8"