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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.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection NK942.M8 M87 1911
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morris & Co. (London, England), creator.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Morris, William, 1834-1896.
- Morris, William.
- Morris & Co. (London, England)--History.
- Morris & Co. (London, England).
- Morris & Co. (London, England)--Anniversaries, etc.
- Interior decoration firms--England--History--19th century.
- Interior decoration firms.
- Interior decoration--England--History--19th century.
- Interior decoration.
- Anniversaries.
- England.
- Morris, William, 1834-1896--Psychology.
- Decorative arts--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Printing--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Decoration and ornament--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- photographs.
- Photographs.
- History.
- Books.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Fern, Alan Maxwell, 1930- (donor) (RBC copy)
- Fern, Lois, 1934- (donor) (RBC copy)
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 63 pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 15 cm
- Manufacture:
- London : Chiswick Press
- Other Title:
- Morris movement
- Place of Publication:
- London : Privately printed for Morris & Company, Decorators, Ltd., MCMXI [1911].
- Notes:
- Issued in printed wrappers
- Vignette of the "original trade mark of the Firm designed by Madox Brown" on title page
- Frontispiece portrait with caption: "William Morris ... from the portrait by G. F. Watts in the National Portrait Gallery"
- Authorship attributed to H. C. Marillier (see Sewter).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak copy is gift of Alan and Lois Fern, 2016.
- Kislak copy has advertisement for Morris and Company laid in.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Cited in:
- Sewter, A.C. The stained glass of William Morris and his circle
- OCLC:
- 6756935
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