A brief sketch of the Morris movement and of the firm founded by William Morris to carry out his designs and the industries revived or started by him : written to commemorate the firm's fiftieth anniversary in June 1911
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: A brief sketch of the Morris movement and of the firm founded by William Morris to carry out his designs and the industries revived or started by him : written to commemorate the firm's fiftieth anniversary in June 1911
Other titles: Morris movement
Classmark: Bedford Collection A305
Additional creator(s): Marillier, H C (1865-1951) (Attributed author); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Morris & Co. (London, England) (Creator); Chiswick Press (Printer)
Related people: Morris, William, 1834-1896; Morris, William, 1834-1896
Publisher: Privately printed for Morris & Company, Decorators, Ltd; Chiswick Press, Charles Whittingham and Co
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1911
Language: English
Size and medium: 63 pages, 9 leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/730825
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019816530505181
Description
Original printed wrappers.
Vignette of the "original trade mark of the Firm designed by Madox Brown" on title page.
Frontispiece portrait with caption: "William Morris aet 37 from the portrait by G.F. Watts in the National Portrait Gallery".
Authorship attributed to H.C. Marillier (see Sewter).
Indexed in: Sewter, A.C. The stained glass of William Morris and his circle,
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A305: Contains loose trade card for Morris and Company.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A305: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on inside front wrapper: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: CF/8.
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