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Publications
There is a wide range of books available on all aspects of the Arts and
Crafts Movement. The Society has also published a
number of titles.
At Society lectures there is usually a selection
of books which are available to members at a discounted price. Any of
the books listed below may also be
ordered
for collection at Society events.
If you own any of these books and would like to write a review for inclusion
on this page, then please let
us know
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Publications by The Arts
and Crafts Movement in Surrey
 Phillips Memorial Park:
An Arts and Crafts Movement Tribute to a Hero of the Titanic
A new book by The Arts and Crafts Movement in Surrey is published as a memorial for the centenary of the sinking of
RMS Titanic.
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On the night of 14th April 1912, the unthinkable disaster happened; the White Star Line’s
RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank within just a few hours with the loss of many lives. Remaining at his post, the young Marconi trained telegraph operator, Jack Phillips continued to transmit wireless messages until three minutes before the ship went down; he was lost at sea and became lauded for his devotion to duty; the
Carpathia which responded to his messages picked up 705 survivors.
This new book by The Arts and Crafts Movement in Surrey is published as a memorial for the centenary of the sinking of Titanic. The eight contributing authors, all experts in their field, put the events of that night into the broader context of the times.
There is an account of Jack’s background and training with a description of his actions in the radio operator’s ‘shack’ – his strength of character shines through. There follows the story of the efforts by the people of his home town of Godalming in Surrey to commission a memorial to his heroism and of the involvement of five purposeful women to ensure that memorial materialised in the form of the Phillips Memorial Cloister. Gertrude Jekyll the artist, gardener and craftswoman played a major role in the initial concept of the Cloister and its subsequent planting and the Arts and Crafts architect Hugh Thackeray Turner designed the building in the local vernacular tradition; their backgrounds and the influences they brought to the project are fully explored within the text. The creation of the Phillips Memorial Cloister is set within a wider consideration of the architectural design of the times and ethos of the Arts and Crafts period.
The Phillips Memorial Cloister, Grade II listed, is set in the extensive riverside landscape, now known as the Phillips Memorial Park, was always intended to be a ‘useful’ Memorial. Its history is followed, through ‘ups’ and ‘downs’, over the years and is brought up to date with a description of the newly completed Heritage Lottery funded restoration.
A bibliography and gazetteer of relevant local venues associated with the subject complete the book.
To order a copy and make arrangements
for payment, please
email us
Published by the Arts and Crafts
Movement in Surrey.
Softcover, 196 x 210mm,
56 pages with
colour illustrations. Published 2012, ISBN: 978-0-9537615-6-2. Price £8.95 + £1.42
p&p.
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Anna Lea Merritt’s Murals: Wall paintings in a Surrey Church
Anna Lea Merritt’s little known mural paintings of the life
of Christ for the church of St. Martin’s, Blackheath in Surrey
provide the focus for this book.
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Merritt (1844-1930) was a successful
and prolific artist, best known as the first female painter
to have work purchased for the nation by the Chantrey Bequest
(now the Tate collection). A pioneer in her day, she successfully
ventured into the male dominated world of professional art.
This book by ACMS member Olive Maggs celebrates the recent restoration
and is the first study on the murals, examining both their iconography
and the little known water-glass technique used in their making.
To order a copy and make arrangements
for payment, please
email us
Published by the Arts and Crafts
Movement in Surrey.
Softcover, 210 x 210mm, 32 pages with
colour illustrations. Published 2012, ISBN: 9780953761531. Price
£6.50 + £1.42
p&p.
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 Watts
Gallery - A personal view by Richard Jeffries, compiled
and edited by Desna Greenhow.
Memories from his twenty years as curator, and comments on
paintings and sculptures in the collection.
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Richard Jefferies was Curator of
the Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey, for two decades. His knowledge
of the Victorian painter, G. F. Watts’ work and philosophy are
matched by his entertaining way of expressing his fondness and
admiration for him. His comments on the work and Watts’ deep
appreciation of the issues of his day, are many of them relevant
to the concerns our own times, and are brought before us by
a master in the art of communicating. George Frederic Watts
was considered in his lifetime one of the greatest English painters
of the nineteenth century. Undoubtedly the foremost portrait
painter, his Symbolist and social realism work earned him accolades
from most of his fellow artists, and from the Establishment.
Although he was nicknamed ‘England’s Michelangelo’, knowledge
of his work plummeted after his death, and is only now enjoying
a revival, a hundred years later.
Published by the Arts and Crafts
Movement in Surrey for the Watts Gallery.
Softcover, 40 pages with black & white
illustrations. Published 2006, price £4.95. ISBN 0-9537615-2-5
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Nature and TraditionArts and Crafts architecture and
gardens in and around Guildford
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The Arts and Crafts Movement, an
idealistic approach to the design of houses, gardens and craftworks,
flourished in England between 1880 and 1910. Guildford is fortunate
in having some fine works from this period and, in particular,
early examples of the now legendary collaboration between garden
designer, Gertrude Jekyll, and architect, Edwin Lutyens. This
book can serve readers as an introduction to this fascinating
period in which England led the world in searching for a new,
informal and personal approach to domestic design.
Softcover, 76 pages with colour and black
& white illustrations. New edition 2002 price £5.95. ISBN 0
9537615-1-7
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 The Word in the Pattern
The Word in the Pattern (1905):
A Facsimile with Accompanying Essays on Mary Watts's Cemetery Chapel drawn from the Watts Gallery Symposium 2010
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Contains Mary Seton Watts
key to the symbols on the walls
of the Watts Chapel at Compton. Originally published
in 1905 and reprinted by The Arts and Crafts Movement in Surrey with accompanying essays.
Softcover, 112 pages with colour and black
& white illustrations. New edition 2012 price £15.95. ISBN 095376155X
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 M.H. Baillie Scott
The Surrey Contribution Work of an Arts and Crafts Architect
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A booklet with photographs of buildings
in Surrey, originally prepared to accompany the exhibition
M.H. Baillie Scott: The Artistic House shown at Guildford
House Gallery in the summer of 1996.
Softcover, 24 pages. Available either
from the Society or
The Watts Gallery price £2 **ONLY A FEW REMAINING**
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A bibliography for decorating and furnishing in the Gothic,
Victorian, Edwardian or A&C style
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  The
Arts and Crafts Home, Wendy Hitchmough, 2002, Pavilion
Books
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  The
Arts and Crafts House, Adrian Tinniswood, 2005,
Mitchell Beazley Art & Design
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Period House: An Owner's Guide, Albert Jackson,
2002, Collins
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  Suburban
Style: The British Home, 1840-1960, Helena Barrett,
1993, Little, Brown & Co.
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  The
Edwardian House, Helen Long, 1993, Manchester University
Press (rrp: £18.99)
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A selection of
the following books are available at lectures (discounts available
for members) or click on the pictures to
shop at Amazon.co.uk:
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 Gertrude Jekyll and the
Country House Garden: From the Archives of Country Life
by Judith B Tankard
 Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House Garden
is the first book in over two decades devoted to the
most important garden designer of the twentieth century.
Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932) laid the basis for modern
garden design and is credited with popularizing an informal,
naturalistic look in counterpoint to the rigid, formal
landscapes of the Victorian era. Her collaboration with
Edwin Lutyens produced seminal garden masterpieces of
the Arts & Crafts movement, including Hestercombe and
Folly Farm.
Also known as a prolific and influential writer,
Miss Jekyll contributed more than one hundred articles
to Country Life and designed three gardens for
the publication’s founder, Edward Hudson. As a result,
the Country Life archive has an unrivalled record
of her work. This book includes a combination of both
archival black-and-white and contemporary colour photographs
highlighting a selection of the more than 350 gardens
which Miss Jekyll created.
Judith B Tankard is a landscape historian, author
and preservation consultant. She received an M.A. in
art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York
University and taught at the Landscape Institute, Arnold
Arboretum of Harvard University, for 20 years. Her articles
and book reviews have been published in many magazines,
including Hortus, Apollo and Country
Life. She lectures regularly both in the United
States and Britain. She is the author or co-author of
seven illustrated books on landscape history, including
most recently Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public
Landscapes and Gardens of the Arts and Crafts
Movement.
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The Leonard Stokes Directory:
Architect in a Dressing Gown, Jan Ward, 2009, pub:
Jan Ward (rrp £28)
Jan Ward is a long-standing member of the Society
of whose ongoing research into the work of
architect
Leonard Aloysius Scott Stokes (1858-1925) we have been
aware. We are therefore delighted to see the publication
of her new book The Leonard Stokes Directory - Architect
in a Dressing Gown.
Jan Ward’s interest in Leonard Stokes was kindled
many years ago as a young planning technician for the
local authority, when she visited Littleshaw - the house
Stokes built for himself at Woldingham, high up on the
North Downs of Surrey - to put up a site notice. In
writing the book she has travelled the country photographing
his buildings that still exist and the sites of some
that don’t. His more famous buildings, in addition to
Littleshaw, which is heralded by many as a fine example
of Arts and Crafts architecture, include St Clare’s
Church at Liverpool, additions to Emmanuel College,
Cambridge and Downside School in Somerset together with
Minterne House for Lord Digby in Dorset.
The book, privately published in May 2009, includes
chapters about the life and work of Leonard Stokes and
a gazetteer of more than 120 commissions, most with
colour photographs and black and white illustrations.
See further information on the book's website:
www.leonardstokes.co.uk
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  Arts
and Crafts Master: The Houses and Gardens of M H Baillie
Scott, Ian Macdonald-Smith, 2010, Rizzoli International
(rrp £35)
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  Thomas
Mawson: Life, Gardens and Landscapes, Janet Waymark,
2009, Frances Lincoln (rrp £40)
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  Newlyn
Copper: Arts and Crafts Copper Work in Newlyn, Daryl
Bennett & Colin Pill, 2008, Redcliffe Press (rrp £24.95)
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  The
Flowers of William Morris, Derek W. Baker, 1996,
Chicago Review (rrp £16.50)
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Letchworth the First Garden City, Mervyn Miller,
2002, Phillimore & Co (rrp £25)
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  Brentham:
A History of the Pioneer Garden Suburb 1901-2001,
Aileen Reid, 2000, Brentham Heritage Society (rrp £30)
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Architecture of Sir Ernest George, Hilary Grainger,
2011, Spire Books (rrp £65.00)480 pages with 267
colour & 65 b/w illustrations, hardback.
Sir Ernest George (1839-1922) was one of our greatest
late Victorian domestic architects, who with his three
successive partners, carried out over 200 works at home
and abroad. Widely acclaimed in his own time, he was
also a watercolourist and etcher of significance. This
is the first full study of George’s career, art and
buildings, and will firmly establish his reputation
as a leader of his profession. Magnificently illustrated
and including new photography by leading architectural
photographer Martin Charles, the text is scholarly yet
highly readable. A full catalogue of works and an important
new account of the 79 pupils and assistants known to
have passed through his office, including Edwin Lutyens,
Guy Dawber, and Ethel Mary Charles, the first female
RIBA member, add considerable value to this pioneering
work.
Professor Hilary Grainger is the acknowledged authority
on George and the architecture of British crematoria.
She is chair of the Victorian Society.
Telephone orders may be placed with Linda Hone at
Spire Books on: 0118 947 1525.
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 Wandering
Architects: In Pursuit of an Arts and Crafts Ideal,
Michael Drury, 2000, Shaun Tyas (rrp £24)
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  James
MacLaren, Arts & Crafts Pioneer, Alan Calder, 2003,
Shaun Tyas (rrp £30)
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  Harold
Falkner: More Than an Arts & Crafts Architect, Sam
Osmond, 2003, Phillimore & Co (rrp £25)
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  West
Surrey Architecture: 1840-2000, Christopher Budgen,
2002, The Heritage of Waverley Ltd (rrp £19.95).
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  International
Arts and Crafts, Karen Livingstone & Linda Parry
(Editors), 2005, V & A Publications (rrp £40)
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 W.A.S. Benson: Arts
and Crafts Luminary and Pioneer of Modern Design,
Ian Hamerton (Editor), 2005, Antique Collectors' Club
Ltd (rrp £45)
Renowned for his imaginative and practical metal
work designs, W.A.S. Benson is best known for his daring
and innovative work in the sphere of electrical lighting.
Examples of the latter have always been widely admired
(even during his lifetime) and these attained iconic
status, sold in galleries throughout Europe; they are
becoming increasingly rare and desirable. As a close
friend of both Morris and Burne-Jones, Benson was a
quiet but committed member of the early Arts & Crafts
Movement: an active founder member of the Art Workers'
Guild and in 1914 founder of the Design and Industries
Association. On the death of William Morris, Benson
and his colleague Henry Carne Marillier stepped in and
bought Morris & Co., running it alongside W.A.S. Benson
& Co. until Benson's resignation in 1917.
Dr Ian Hamerton is an academic with a passion for
the Arts & Crafts Movement, and President of the newly-formed
C.F.A. Voysey Society. For many years, Ian has collected
and researched different examples of the genre and counts
himself fortunate to have lived for a time in a lodge
designed by C.F.A. Voysey. An internationally recognised
author, he has written or co-written over one hundred
and twenty articles. In 2005, on the 150th anniversary
of the birth of the subject, he was the driving force
behind this book, the first work devoted to the life
and work of the designer and architect William Arthur
Smith Benson (1854-1924). In this extensively researched
work, Ian was the editor and principal author, taking
a hand in chapters on lighting, metalware and architectural
works. The book, published by the Antique Collectors'
Club in 2005, includes chapters about the life and work
of W.A.S. Benson and a gazetteer of all his known architectural
commissions (drawn together for the first time in this
publication) and patent applications, extensively illustrated
with newly-commissioned colour photographs of his lighting
designs, and black and white images from Benson's own
private collection.
In his free time, Ian has lectured widely on both
Benson and Voysey e.g. to the National Trust (at Standen),
the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society (York), at Blackwell
in the Lake District, and to the William Morris Society
in Hammersmith. He is currently engaged in research
for his latest book project, dealing with Voysey's decorative
designs.
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  The
Crafts in Britain in the Twentieth Century, Tanya
Harrod, 1999, Yale University Press (rrp £50)
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  Essential
Arts and Crafts, Karen Livingstone, 2005, V & A
Publications (rrp £14.99)
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  The
Bromsgrove Guild: An Illustrated History, Quintin
Watt (Editor), 1999, The Bromsgrove Society (rrp £11.95)
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  The
Arts and Crafts Movement in the North West of England:
A Handbook, Barrie & Wendy Armstrong, 2005, Oblong
Creative Ltd (rrp £17.50)
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Philip Webb Pioneer of Arts and Crafts Architecture,
Sheila Kirk, Wiley-Academy (rrp £60 hardback, £29.99
softback).
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  Baillie
Scott - The Artistic House, Diane Haigh, 1995, Wiley-Academy
(rrp £29.99).
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  Christopher
Dresser, Harry Lyons, 2004, Antique Collectors'
Club Ltd (rrp £25)
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  The
Jewellery and Silver of H.G. Murphy: Arts and Crafts
to Art Deco, Paul Atterbury & John Benjamin, 2005,
Antique Collectors' Club (rrp £35)
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  Arts
and Crafts Furniture, John Andrews, 2005, Antique
Collectors' Club Ltd (rrp £39.50)
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  C.R.
Ashbee: Architect, Designer and Romantic Socialist,
Alan Crawford, 2005, Yale University Press (rrp £25)
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  From
William Morris: Building Conservation and the Arts and
Crafts Cult of Authenticity, 1877-1939 (Studies in British
Art), Chris Miele (Editor), 2005, Yale University
Press (rrp £40)
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