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First published 1962
Copyright © Asa Briggs, 1962 Text of ‘William Morris, Designer’, copyright © Graeme Shankland, 1962
Made and printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay & Company Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk Set in Monotype Bembo
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