Chapters in the History of the Arts and Crafts Movement Triggs, Oscar Lovell Arts & Photography

Octavo; (x), 198pp.; frontis and two other plates (reproducing Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin and William Morris plaques created by Julia Bracken for the the Bohemia Guild of the Industrial Art League. Contemporary previous owner name to front pastedown several unopened and a few roughly opened pages, general wear and light staining; else a Good to Very Good copy in blue paper-covered sides, lettered in gold, 1/4 linen back titled in black. Printed at the Lakeside Press. Chapters include 1) Carlyle's relationship to the new industrialism 2) Ruskin's contribution to the doctrine of work 3) Morris and his plea for an industrial commonwealth 4) Statement of principles of the Hammersmith Socialist Society 5) Ashbee and the reconstructed workshop 6) Rookwood: an ideal workshop and 7) The development of industrial consciousness. Appendix I. A proposal for a guild and school of handicraft. Apendix II. The industrial art league. Oscar Lovell Triggs was an instructor in English at the University of Chicago from 1895 to 1903, the author of several books; he also edited an 1892 edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. He was founder of the Saugatuck Press and editor of the "Bulletin of the Morris Society of Chicago."