[Rarebooks] FS: William Morris, inscribed by S.C. Cockerell to Ernerst Barnsley

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

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 Barnsley from S C Cockerell Oct
1902".  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 very nice association copy.

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.  $450.00

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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: 1905.  2nd ptg. Hardcover.  6"x8.5", 39 pages; brown boards with
parchment spine; printed on deckle-edged paper; light soil, but overall a
very nice copy. $50.00

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