Art Daily Newsletter
CUMBRIA.- This unique exhibition brings together over
90 books with case-bound cloth covers by artists and designers, their names
read like a roll-call of the leading artists and designers of the day. Philip
Webb, DG Rossetti, William Morris, Charles Ricketts, Walter Crane, Lewis F Day,
Selwyn Image, Laurence Housman, James Guthrie, Gleeson White, Robert Anning
Bell, Lucy Faulkner are all represented. Published between 1866 and 1911 and
issued by commercial publishers the books all come from the collection of
Malcolm Haslam, co-curator of the exhibition with Kathy Haslam, Blackwell's curator. Malcolm and Kathy have made their
selection based on the grounds of the covers style and for the proximity of
their designers to the core of the Arts & Crafts Movement. Every artist
included had work shown at the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society, and 17 of
the selected titles ... More
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