The Book of the Home. A Practical Guide to household management. Produced under the general editorship of HC Davidson, assisted by over one hundred specialists. With coloured plates and numerous illustrations. 8 volumes.

Name: The Book of the Home. A Practical Guide to household management. Produced under the general editorship of HC Davidson, assisted by over one hundred specialists. With coloured plates and numerous illustrations. 8 volumes.
Author: Davidson, Hugh Coleman

Book Description

Book covers designed by Talwin Morris in Peacock Style and signed in code/ cipher to upper board. The Peacock motif was beloved of the Glasgow designers and the Aesthetic Movement and Morris was a friend to all 4 members of the Spook School: the MacDonald sisters, Herbert McNair and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. As Art Director at Blackie's, Morris designed a number of covers for the subsidiary company, Gresham. Well written work, some minor foxing, complete sets are rare.

Author Davidson, Hugh Coleman

Date 1905

Binding Decorative cloth by Talwin Morris

Publisher London, Gresham Publishing Company

Condition Very good

Price: £200.00

Offered by Ian Reilly Books

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