If I Could But See It

A Graphic Biography of William Morris

A vivid, full-colour graphic biography of the celebrated 19th-century designer and socialist William Morris

Up at the League, says a friend, there had been one night a brisk conversational discussion, as to what would happen on the Morrow of the Revolution As he sat in that vapour-bath of hurried and discontented humanity, a carriage of the underground railway, he, like others, stewed discontentedly he found himself musing on the subject-matter of discussion: “If I could but see a day of it,” he said to himself; “if I could but see it!”

This is the graphic biography of William Morris (1834-1896), the celebrated designer, driven polymath and radical socialist.

With the telegraphic immediacy of the doodle, Nick Thorkelson’s striking and idiosyncratic illustrations chime with the Arts and Crafts movement’s emphasis on the humanising power of the handmade.

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