Book: Cotswold Furniture Maker's Copy of William Morris

A Superb Association Copy- Inscribed to Arts & Crafts Furniture Maker Ernest Barnsley-

"William Morris. An Address Delivered the XIth November MDCCCC at Kelmscott House Hammersmith Before the Hammersmith Socialist Society"

By J.W. Mackail. Published in London; printed at the Chiswick Press for the Hammersmith Publishing Society: 1902.

An interesting biographical speech about William Morris by J.W. Mackail who was Edward Burne-Jones' son-in-law and Morris's first important biographer. Mackail's 1899 "Life of William Morris" was the standard Morris biography for years, and is still an important resource, remaining in-print a hundred years after its first publication. The speech printed in this booklet was given in the same room at Kelmscott where Morris set up his looms to manufacture carpets 21 years earlier. Mackail's biography has sometimes been criticized for not making enough of Morris's politics- this speech, given before the Hammersmith Socialist Society, suffers no such deficiency, and nicely illustrates how Morris's politics and craftwork were inextricably linked.

Hardcover. 6"x8.5", 39 pages; brown boards with parchment spine; printed on deckle-edged paper at the famous Chiswick Press; light soil, but overall a very nice copy.

Inscribed on the endpaper- "To A Ernest Barnsley from S C Cockerell Oct 1902".

Sydney Carlyle Cockerell was a friend of William Morris and Secretary of the Kelmscott Press. Ernest Barnsley was a famous member of the Cotswold Group of Arts & Crafts furniture makers, along with his brother Sidney, and Ernest Gimson.

A superlative Arts & Crafts association copy.

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