WILLIAM MORRIS INTEREST
COLLECTION OF BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS
£1,125
Auction: Design Since 1860 | 21 October 2021 From 10:00
Description
to include:
The Artworkers Guild 1884 to 1934 by H. J. L. J. Massé
May Morris: William Morris (in tissue paper wrappers)
J.W. Mackail: The Life of William Morris 1st edition 1899 (2 Vols., with Philip Burne Jones' signature)
J.W. Mackail: The Life of William Morris, 1901 ed (with May Morris' signature)
Transactions of the National Association for the Advancement of Art and its Application to Industry Liverpool Meeting of 1888
Socialism Its Growth & Outcome by William Morris & E Belfort Bax, 1893
Labour Annual 10 copies, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901 (Reformers Yearbook, formerly Labour Annual), 1903, 1904, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909
J.B. Shaw (edit.): Fabian Essays in Socialism, 1 volume
William Morris: Hopes & Fears for Art 5 Lectures 1871-1881
William Morris: Gothic Architecture: A Lecture for the Arts & Crafts Exhibition
The Dream of John Ball & The Kings Lesson
William Morris: Address delivered 11th November 1890
Socialist Review March, April & May 1928, contains unpublished letters of William Morris
Notice of a Fabian Society Public Meeting 1908 by G. B. Shaw on Socialism – Hand Flyer
Kelmscott Fellowship Notice 1926, showing A. H. Verstage
William Morris: The Life & Death of Jason
William Morris: The Earthly Paradise (3 of 4 parts)
William Morris to Whistler: Papers & Addresses on Art & Craft and the Commonweal; Illustrations by Walter Crane
Walter Crane: An Artist’s Reminiscences
Walter Crane: Decorative Illustration of Books
Walter Crane: Decorative Illustrations des Buches
MacNeil Whistler: Pamphlet Board of Education South Kensington
Walthamstow Museum: Guide to William Morris Centenary
Speeches in Commemoration of William Morris at the Baths Hall Walthamstow (3 copies)
William Morris 1884-1934: Some Appreciations
Morris & Company 1861 to 1940 (2 copies)
Tributes to Peter Floud
Parables from Nature by Margaret Gatty
Mary de Morgan: On a Pincushion & Other Fairy tales
H.J.L.J. Massé: The Artworkers Guild 1884 to 1934
A May Day Interlude
C.R. Ashbee: Table of the Arts & Crafts of the Renaissance
C.R. Ashbee: Table of the Arts & Crafts of the 17th Century (2 copies)
C.R. Ashbee: Table of the Arts & Crafts of the 18th Century (2 copies)
The New Party published by Hodder Brothers, frontispiece by Walter Crane
William Morris: Dream of John Ball and A King’s Lesson
William Morris: The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems
Sidney Webb & Sidney Ball: Socialism and Individualism
A Catalogue of an Exhibition Celebrating the Ninetieth Birthday of The Churches and Chapels of Old London
William Morris as a Socialist
William Morris: Art & the Beauty of the Earth, A Lecture
Sir Edward Burne-Jones: Letters to Katie with an introductory note
William Morris: The Water of the Wondrous Isles, Longmans
William Morris: Prose & Poetry (1856 – 1870)
Edward & Stephani Godwin: Warrior Bard. The Life of W. Morris
William Morris: News from Nowhere, pocket edition
H Halliday Sparling: The Kelmscott Press and William Morris
William Morris: A Dream of John Ball and a King’s Lesson
J.W. Mackail: The Life of William Morris 2 volumes, new edition
Countess of Warwick: William Morris His Homes & Haunts
Edited by G. D. H. Cole: William Morris Selected Writings
William Morris: News from Nowhere, Boston: Robert Brothers
C. Gillington: A Day with William Morris
Gerald H Crow: William Morris Designer
Bernard Shaw: Morris as I Knew Him
Peter Faulkner: Wilfred Scawen Blunt & The Morrises
Richard Tames: An Illustrated Life of William Morris
Joseph R. Dunlap: William Caxton & William Morris
Peter Faulkner: William Morris & Eric Gill
S.L. Bensusan: The Charm of Burne-Jones
Provenance
Provenance:
From the collection of Arthur Halcrow Verstage (1875-1969);
The Millinery Works Collection.
Footnote
Note: Arthur Halcrow Verstage was an architect who spent much of his career in the public sector. He was a student at the Royal Academy School of Architecture in the 1900s and was elected as an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1902. By 1903 he was a student and assistant at the Central School of Arts and Crafts (later known as the Central School of Art and Design) in London where William Lethaby was principal and a great influence on him. He then oversaw the design of the new school in Southampton Row from 1905-8. From here he became an architect for London County Council and was involved with many London societies, and as a founding member of the Kelmscott Fellowship, a forerunner to The William Morris Society. His large and varied collection, amassed from 1902 to 1972, reflected his wide interest in the arts. His archive was purchased by The William Morris Society in 2005.