Arts and crafts essays / by members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society ; with a preface by William Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, issuing body.

Contributor:

Morris, William, 1834-1896, writer of preface.

Longmans, Green, and Co., publisher.

Chiswick Press, printer.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts and crafts movement.

Decorative arts.

arts and crafts (movement).

Genre:

Bookplate (Provenance)

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Hess, Margaret (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii, [1], 419, [1] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Manufacture:

London : Chiswick Press

Place of Publication:

London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1899.

Contents:

Of the revival of design and handicraft, with notes on the work of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society / Walter Crane

Textiles / William Morris

Of decorative painting and design ; Of wall papers / Walter Crane

Fictiles / G.T. Robinson

Metal work / W.A.S. Benson

Stone and wood carving / Somers Clarke

Furniture / Stephen Webb

Stained glass ; Table glass / Somers Clarke

Printing / William Morris and Emery Walker

Bookbinding / T.J. Cobden-Sanderson

Of mural painting / F. Madox Brown

Of sgraffito work / Heywood Sumner

Of stucco and gesso / G.T. Robinson

Of cast iron / W.R. Lethaby

Of dyeing as an art / William Morris

Of embroidery / May Morris

Of lace / Alan S. Cole

Of book illustration and book decoration / Reginald Blomfield

Of designs and working drawings / Lewis F. Day

Furniture and the room / Edward S. Prior

Of the room and furniture / Halsey Ricardo

The English tradition / Reginald Blomfield

Carpenters' furniture / W.R. Lethaby

Of decorated furniture / J.H. Pollen

Of carving / Stephen Webb

Intarsia and inlaid wood-work / T.G. Jackson

Woods and other materials / Stephen Webb

Of modern embroidery / Mary E. Turner

Of materials ; Colour / May Morris

Stitches and mechanism / Alan S. Cole

Design / John D. Sedding

On designing for the art of embroidery / Selwyn Image.

Notes:

Originally published in 1893.

Printer from title page verso.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

OCLC:

1303350