Description
First edition, hardcover, 198 pages, printed in 1902. Cover is a bit stained, but binding is tight and body of book is in very good condition.
Oscar Lovell Triggs was a professor at the University of Chicago and helped found the Industrial Art League of Chicago (1899–1904), which published this book. Triggs recounts the origins and history of the Arts and Crafts Movement 40 years after its foundations were laid. Chapters on William Morris, Ashbee and Ruskin, and on the Rookwood Pottery as an example of the ideal workshop, “the association of art and labor”. Includes a “Proposal for a Guild and School of Handicraft in Chicago”. The following year Triggs founded a William Morris Society in Chicago.
