Talwin Morris Bindings (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. From the Preface : The machines described are divided into well-defined groups, such as Lathes, Planers, Milling Machines, and Grinding Machines, and the examples included in each of the sections have been selected to illustrate the various forms in common use for both light and heavy kinds of work. To the descriptions of the machines have been added the names of the respective makers, including John Lang, Craven Bros., James Archdale, John Hetherington, and others. TWO VOLUME SET. 35 pages, 170 pages; 14 pages, 212 pages, 459 illustrations in the text, and 10 Bavarian colour composite sectional models, with explanatory text. Contents extremely clean and sound throughout. A little rubbed at extremities, but a firm set. Bound in full green art nouveau pictorial cloth, designed by Talwin Morris (1865-1911) in the 'Glasgow Style' typified by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928). Morris worked for the publishers Blackie in Glasgow from 1893 as Art Director, and later produced a series of outstanding geometrical influenced bindings for Greshams (a Blackie subsidiary). A very appealing looking set, both inside and out. Size: 24 x 33.5 cms. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; New Arrivals; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Four large 8vo volumes. (9.2 x 7.1 inches). Illustrated throughout with portraits and views. A very good set in the beautiful decorative Art Nouveau style red cloth bindings designed by Talwin Morris. Front boards with gilt, dark green and light green decorations. Spines with gilt lettering and decoration plus dark and light green blocking. Rear boards decorated in white and green. Bevelled edges to all boards. Plain grey endpapers. All edges gilt. Some rubbing to the edges and uniform fading to the cloth spines but the gilt and colours still strong and bright and this is a very attractive set in these beautiful bindings. --- This design, featuring attractive Glasgow Roses and Crowns, was exhibited at the influential Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Decorativa Moderna in Turin in 1902. -- More photos available on request.

Mostly 8vo, various paginations, mostly original decorated cloth, a handful of printed card wrappers. Most in good or very good condition. A large and representative collection covering the whole book-designing career of influential artist Talwin Morris, who became synonymous with the ?Glasgow Style? of the turn of the 20th century. The 262 volumes include complete runs of his celebrated and beautiful bindings for sets such as William S. Murphy?s The Textile Industries and James Weir French?s Modern Power Generators reminiscent of and an influence on the burgeoning Private Press movement; it also includes more than a hundred of his simpler series bindings. Talwin Morris (1865-1911), artist and book designer, was born in England but moved to Glasgow in 1893 to take up the post of Art Manager for publisher Blackie and Son. He was to arrive in a city where other artist-craftsmen and women - chief among them future collaborator Charles Rennie Mackintosh - were poised to make their mark on 20th century art. Prior to his work for Blackie he produced headpieces and mastheads for magazines published by Cassels and during his Glasgow tenure, like many of his contemporaries he did not confine himself to one medium, having a mirror exhibited in Turin and designing an ink stand for Liberty and Co. As Art Manager, he had a greater influence on the form of Blackie?s books than a simple illustrator would have had. Morris?s role allowed him to develop his style in both series bindings and individual works, both of which are well-represented in this collection. His series designs span from the inexpensive paperback ?Plain Text Shakespeare? series for which he designed the elegant front wrapper design printed in black, through the Red Letter Shakespeare series in hardback for Blackie?s Gresham subsidiary, for which he designed the two-colour front board decoration and title-page, through the Selections from Poets, for which he designed front board and spine, end-papers and title pages. All are well-represented in this collection, alongside less strictly-defined series work on juvenile and adult fiction, one design seeing service for a number of similar works, as well as the larger, custom designs for Gresham sets that are characteristic of his later work. This distinction is in some ways an artificial one, as the same motifs - often botanical, frequently asymmetric - recur throughout all his work. In presenting a large cross-section of Morris?s work these similarities become more apparent; the cheaper bindings are more economical in execution and materials but not in scope, an elegant economy of line common to all his work.