The Wood Beyond the World

In the 1890's, famed English designer William Morris founded the Kelmscott Press, a publisher of fine books that boasted the handcrafted beauty of medieval manuscripts. Highlighted by two-colour type and a gorgeous, calligraphic font, this facsimile edition re-creates a celebrated fantasy written by Morris himself. This superbly illustrated novel was among the first to combine reality and the supernatural, serving as inspiration for Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and others. About the Author William Morris was a dreamer with a genius for turning dreams into reality. Self-taught in thirteen different crafts, some of them ancient ones that had died out, he became the greatest European pattern-designer since the Middle Ages. He was, besides, a campaigning socialist and a pioneering environmentalist, a lyric poet and a forceful journalist, a storyteller and a maker of fine books.