[Rarebooks] Cockerell / Gimson (& the Barnsleys) association copy

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

A very nice Arts & Crafts Association copy,
inscribed to Ernest Gimson by Sidney Cockerell-

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Mackail, J.W. "William Morris. An Address Delivered the XIth November 
MDCCCC at Kelmscott House Hammersmith Before the Hammersmith Socialist 
Society". London; printed at the Chiswick Press for the Hammersmith 
Publishing Society: 1902.

Inscribed "To A Ernest Gimson from S C Cockerell Oct 1902". Cockerell was a 
friend of William Morris and Secretary of the Kelmscott Press. Ernest 
Gimson was a famous member of the Cotswold Group of Arts & Crafts furniture 
makers, along with the brothers Sidney and Ernest Barnsley. A very nice 
association copy.

The book itself is an interesting biographical speech by 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; light soil, but overall a very nice copy.  [05027] $450.00

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