Essays on Art and Architecture
PRINTED BOOKS & ESSAYS
Address to the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design, delivered in the town hall, 19 February, 1879. Birmingham: E.C. Osborne, 84, New Street.
"Art and Industry in the Fourteenth Century," Collected Works of William Morris Vol. 22, London: Longmans, 1914
Gothic Architecture
"Art and Industry in the Fourteenth Century," Morris on History, Sheffield Academic Press, 1996
Hopes and Fears for Art, London: Ellis and White, 1882
Morris at First Hand, March 24, 1984, William Morris Gallery (WMG) K2199.
Reports of the School of Science and Art, for the year 1880-81, The Wedgewood Institute, October 13, 1881, Warwick Savage, Printer, Bursleu.
"Royal School of Art-Needlework, December 1879, William Morris Gallery (WMG), J2117.
"Town and Country," courtesy of the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection
MANUSCRIPTS
"Art and Labour," British Library Add MS 45,334, Socialism Up to Date
"Address at the Delivery of Prizes," Harry Ransom Library, Austin, Texas, MS. file (Morris, W.), Works
Essays on Art and History, British Library Add MS 45,331
(1) Lecture, beg. '[Bef]ore I go any further in speaking to you of the popular [or] decorative arts I will ask you to consider if you are quite sure that you care about them'
(2) Lecture, beg. 'I am bound to assume from your presence here tonight that you think it worth while for reasonable people to follow the fine arts, as we call them'
(3) 'The Prospects of Architecture in Civilization'
(4) 'Some Hints on House Decoration'
(5) 'Some Hints on Pattern Designing'
(6) 'The Early Literature of the North'
(7) Address delivered at the opening of an art exhibition at the New Islington Hall, Ancoats, Manchester
(8) Address delivered to the Nottingham Kyrle Society at 'The Castle', Nottingham
(9) 'Art and Industry in the Fourteenth Century'
(10) 'The Gothic Revival', I
(11) 'The Gothic Revival', II
Essays on Art and History, British Library Add MS 45,332
(1) 'Of the Origins of Ornamental Art'
(2) 'The History of Pattern Design'
(3) 'Art: A Serious Thing'
(4) 'Early England'
(5) Lecture beginning identically with 'The Prospects of Architecture in Civilization'
(6) 'Art and the Beauty of the Earth'
(7) A typewritten copy of the version of 'Art and the Beauty of the Earth'
(8) 'Labour and Pleasure versus Labour and Sorrow'
(9) 'Gothic Architecture'
(10) Part of the last sentence of 'The Art of the People'
Harry Ransom Library MS. File (Morris, W.), works, "Address at the Delivery of Prizes"
Hopes and Fears for Art Beinecke Library, Yale University, MS Vault Shelves Morris. Contains "The Art of the People," "The Beauty of Life," "Making the Best of It," "Prospects of Architecture and Civilizaation"
Hopes and Fears for Art, Huntington Library HM 6479
Hopes and Fears for Art No. 2: The Art of the People, Huntington Library HM 6432, autograph manuscript (incomplete).
"Lecture Delivered to the National Association for the Advancement of Art," autograph manuscript .
"Lecture on Art, Art of the People," Bodleian MS. Eng. misc. Don. c. 29, manuscript, 1894.
"On the Artistic Qualities of Woodcut Books," Huntington Library HM 6431, autograph manuscript.
"The Relations of Art to Labor," Beinecke Library, Yale University, MS Vault Shelves, autograph manuscript.
"Some Thoughts on the Ornamented Manuscripts of the Middle Ages," Huntington Library HM 6440, autograph manuscript.
GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE
Editions & Printed Books
Text from May Morris, Artist, Writer, Socialist, 1899
Manuscripts
"Gothic Architecture," British Library Manuscript, B.L. Add. MS. 45,332(9)
"Gothic Architecture," Harry Ransom Library MS file (Morris, W.) Hanley II B
Essays
Supplementary Materials
Transcription, British Library Manuscript, B.L. Add. MS. 45,332(9)
Ruskin, John. The Nature of Gothic, Kelmscott Press Edition, 1892.
Purkis, John. Morris, Burne-Jones and French Gothic, London: William Morris Society, 1895, 1991.