Item #34973 An Address Delivered by William Morris at the Distribution of Prizes to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb. 21, 1894. William MORRIS.

An Address Delivered by William Morris at the Distribution of Prizes to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb. 21, 1894.

London. Printed at the Chiswick Press & Publishedby Longmans & Co. 1898. Hardcover. 8vo, 21cm, 25p., hand-made paper, quarter linen backed grey paper over boards, with titles printed in black on the upper cover, private library bookplate on the front paste-down, near fine.(lt) ~ Printed at the Chiswick Press. ". I, an old man now, have been much encouraged with what I have seen of the enthusiasm &aspirations toward the right road, of the Birmingham School of Art during the last few years, & I beg you to go on encouraging us of the last generation, so that the next after you may need no encouragement save what they will get from their own work, the pleasure of creating beautiful things, which is the greatest pleasure in the world." Near Fine. Item #34973

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