In this Book
- Rediscovering Herbert Horne: Poet, Architect, Typographer, Art Historian
- Book
- 1990
- Published by: ELT Press

summary
Herbert Horne (1864-1916) was a figure of alarming versatility: poet, architect, editor, essayist, typographer, designer of books, and the first scientific historian of art from the British Isles.
is great book on Botticelli has been called by John Pope-Hennessy "the best monograph in English on an Italian painter." Horne's splendid editorship of the Century Guild Hobby Horse led Bernard
Berenson and others to hail him as the successor of William Morris. Horne the connoisseur also gathered a choice selection of drawings and paintings which await closer appreciation. They are housed
in his residence, now the Museo Horne, Florence, Italy. In spite of his achievements he passes unmentioned in the Dictionary of National Biography, and aside from distinguished but brief
discussions of his art activities by Fritz Saxl and Frank Kermode, no book-length study has been devoted to him until this volume. Readers should note: the 1990 print edition of Rediscovering
Herbert Horne is out of prnt.
Table of Contents

- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-3
- List of Illustrations
- pp. vi-viii
- 1. The Early Phase
- pp. 1-8
- 2. Horne and Some Contemporaries
- pp. 9-18
- 3. The Poet and His Poetry
- pp. 19-50
- 4. The Craftsman and Architect
- pp. 51-58
- 5. Crucial Years as Editor
- pp. 59-92
- 6. The Typographer and Book Design
- pp. 93-116
- 7. The Art Historian: Italy and Botticelli
- pp. 117-144
- 8. The Final Phase
- pp. 145-155
Additional Information
ISBN
9780944318621
MARC Record
OCLC
868221455
Pages
190
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
Yes