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Morris Collection
Over 100 books designed offspring Talwin Morris (1865-1911) roost some connected works.
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Bibliography of Works about Talwin Morris
"Mackintosh Market." Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society Newsletter 68 (1995): 6.
A brief report on the sale of a sidechair designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and a collection of books with bindings by both Mackintosh and Talwin Morris at Christie's, London, in 1995; and of a chair by Mackintosh at Sotheby's.
Amaya, M. Art Nouveau. New York: Schocken Books, 1985.
This book contains a single reference to Talwin Morris: "The tall, thin support was employed later almost as much as the curvilinear plant forms, and might be called a submotif of the movement, particularly in the hands of C. A. Voysey, C. R. Mackintosh, Herbert McNair, George Walton and Talwin Morris - the last four working in Glasgow" (39).
Beare, G. "Designers of Blackie's Glasgow-style Book Covers." Imaginative Book Illustration Society Newsletter 8 (1998): 5-8.
A profile of Talwin Morris and a discussion of the Glasgow-style bindings designed by him for the Glasgow publishers Blackie & Son during the years 1893-1909. This article reproduces two Morris cover designs: The Admiralty House; and The Book of the Home. Other artists who designed covers for Blackie and are discussed include A. A. Campbell, Ethel Larcombe an
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Talwin Morris
“Art Manager wanted for a publishing house in Scotland: should be a competent draughtsman, well versed in art matters, of some taste in literature, fitted to take charge of the scheming and production of book illustrations and decorations, and able to carry on the correspondence connected therewith – Apply, by letter only, stating age, particulars of qualifications and salary required to R.B. care of Blackie and Son Limited, 17, Stanhope-street, Glasgow.” February 1893. R.B was Robert Blackie, the OPrganising force behind the firm, and in his ‘Seventies..
The successful candidate was a sub-Art Editor and illustrator on the rather dreary London Magazine, Black and White Budget, one Talwin Morris who until his death in 1911 was responsible for the first integrated and visually homogenised approach to the mass production of easily affordable books. He left London with an average command of the Art Nouveau working languages that would have been revealed to any reader of the Studio magazine, but once in Glasgow made immediate contact with the burgeoning Glasgow Group of artists and designers. His career would have so much different if the advertisement had been placed by a firm in Norfolk.Blackie’s commercial fortunes wer