International studio (60.1916/1917)

The Arts and Crafts Exhibition


BY THACKERAY TURNER

PAINTED CHINA BOWL

quotation in Spanish about knight errants from
“ Don Quixote.” The book was bound by Miss
Adams at Noke, near Oxford, and as the name
of the village is derived from “an oak” the
fore-edge is adorned with a design of oak trees.
Another attractive cover by Miss Adams, of which
an illustration is given, is one of green pigskin
with an apple-tree design for “The Song of Songs.”
This and the “ Morte d’Arthur ” were both printed
at the Ashendene Press.
Other illustrations show three attractive covers
that were displayed in the cases in the University
room. The “Omar Khayyam” by Mr. Peter

McLeish of the Central School
of Arts and Crafts is a simple
but most effective design of
gold on green levant morocco.
Green was much in favour at
the exhibition in almost every
department of design, and one
of the two covers contributed
by Mr. J. F. H. Bates is also
in green, “The Golden
Sayings of Epictetus,” de-
corated with a pleasant pattern
in gold tooling of intersecting
curves, and rosettes of green
and gold. The second cover
by Mr. Bates, for Mr. T.
Sturge Moore’s “ Danae,” is
in full red levant morocco,
with a design in gold of
severely conventionalised
flowers and foliage, and lettering round the border.
Among the many drawings in the department
of lithography were the two interesting studies for
glass roundels at Tyburn Convent, exhibited by
Miss Margaret Rope and reproduced on page 196.
The better of them is perhaps the one bearing the
inscription “ Blessed are they that suffer persecu-
tion for justice’ sake,” showing a mitred bishop
under a tree giving a benediction to a few faithful
members of his scattered flock gathered together
in a secluded valley. The other, “ Giving drink
to the thirsty,” is a carefully composed drawing of
an incident that must have occurred innumerable


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