DOI Heft:
No. 204 (March, 1910)
DOI Artikel:The arts and crafts society's exhibition at the New Gallery, [2]: (Conclusion)
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20969#0129
The Arts and Crafts Society's Exhibition
OAK BOX INLAID
BY SIDNEY C. HAYNE
injury—an important consideration which is some-
times overlooked by the enthusiast in covers.
Another and more elaborate specimen of binding
by Miss Adams, shown in the same case, the
sumptuous Dante, with a de-
tachable outer covering of
richly embroidered silk, was a
good type of the highly deco-
rated volume that must surely
be intended, except on special
occasions, to lie concealed in
the great casket specially made
for it by Mr. Waal.
Other attractive bindings
were to be found in an adja-
cent case, among them Peter
Pan in Kensington Gardens,
in green and gold, and Shelley's
Tour, by Mr. C. B. Lawrence;
Miss Sybil Pye’s austere
Empedocles on Etna; Mr. J.
Hay-Cooper’s Sonnets of Shake-
speare, and The Percys, by
Mr. A. Harding. These were
all leather bindings; and it was,
perhaps, a mistake to show in
the same case books with em-
broidered covers such as Mr.
Vaughan’s Apocalypse and Miss
Dobito’s Imitation of Christ,
which, good enough of their
kind, suffered by compari-
son with their neighbours.
A fine cover in another case
was that by Miss Mary G.
Robinson, of Celtic Illuminative
106
Art, in green leather, with a centre
panel of interlaced curves and triangles,
adapted from The Book of Durrow.
Miss Robinson’s Poems by William
Wordsworth, in green, almost entirely
covered with a design of little leaves
in red and gold, was exceedingly rich
in effect, and in this respect re-
sembled Mr. L. Hay-Cooper’s cover
for The Hollow Land. The severely
simple yet dignified Areopagitica,
bound in red leather, by Mr.
Charles McLeish; Mr. Alfred De
Sauty’s Shakespeare's Sonnets, and
the ingenious design for the cover of
a prayer-book, by Miss E. Gertrude
Farran, should also be noticed. Mr.
T. J. Cobden-Sanderson showed a
dignified Guest Book; and another notable cover
was that of Mr. Douglas Cockerell’s fine Lectern
Bible, in red Niger morocco, an illustration of
which was given in The Studio in January.
INLAID WALNUT SECRETAIRE DESIGNED BY W. A. S. BENSON
EXECUTED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MORRIS & COMPANY
OAK BOX INLAID
BY SIDNEY C. HAYNE
injury—an important consideration which is some-
times overlooked by the enthusiast in covers.
Another and more elaborate specimen of binding
by Miss Adams, shown in the same case, the
sumptuous Dante, with a de-
tachable outer covering of
richly embroidered silk, was a
good type of the highly deco-
rated volume that must surely
be intended, except on special
occasions, to lie concealed in
the great casket specially made
for it by Mr. Waal.
Other attractive bindings
were to be found in an adja-
cent case, among them Peter
Pan in Kensington Gardens,
in green and gold, and Shelley's
Tour, by Mr. C. B. Lawrence;
Miss Sybil Pye’s austere
Empedocles on Etna; Mr. J.
Hay-Cooper’s Sonnets of Shake-
speare, and The Percys, by
Mr. A. Harding. These were
all leather bindings; and it was,
perhaps, a mistake to show in
the same case books with em-
broidered covers such as Mr.
Vaughan’s Apocalypse and Miss
Dobito’s Imitation of Christ,
which, good enough of their
kind, suffered by compari-
son with their neighbours.
A fine cover in another case
was that by Miss Mary G.
Robinson, of Celtic Illuminative
106
Art, in green leather, with a centre
panel of interlaced curves and triangles,
adapted from The Book of Durrow.
Miss Robinson’s Poems by William
Wordsworth, in green, almost entirely
covered with a design of little leaves
in red and gold, was exceedingly rich
in effect, and in this respect re-
sembled Mr. L. Hay-Cooper’s cover
for The Hollow Land. The severely
simple yet dignified Areopagitica,
bound in red leather, by Mr.
Charles McLeish; Mr. Alfred De
Sauty’s Shakespeare's Sonnets, and
the ingenious design for the cover of
a prayer-book, by Miss E. Gertrude
Farran, should also be noticed. Mr.
T. J. Cobden-Sanderson showed a
dignified Guest Book; and another notable cover
was that of Mr. Douglas Cockerell’s fine Lectern
Bible, in red Niger morocco, an illustration of
which was given in The Studio in January.
INLAID WALNUT SECRETAIRE DESIGNED BY W. A. S. BENSON
EXECUTED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MORRIS & COMPANY