Kunst en Maatschappij

…first book design was for Kunst en Maatschappij (1903; “Art and Society”), a translation of a collection of the writings of the English poet and designer William Morris, whose Kelmscott Press was the beginning of the private-press movement in England. In 1907 Roos joined the Typefoundry Amsterdam, where he remained…

His first book, Kunst en Maatschappij (1903), was, significantly, a collection of Morris’ essays in translation. De Roos’s decorative style became simple and less florid under the influence of Cobden-Sanderson, whose work he greatly admired, although his ideals remained those of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Unlike Morris…