{"id":10745,"date":"2026-04-22T17:39:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.typeandforme.com\/?p=10745"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:41:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:41:01","slug":"william-morris-an-address-delivered-to-students-of-the-birmingham-municipal-school-of-art-1898-1st-golden-type-octavo-ed-125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.typeandforme.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/william-morris-an-address-delivered-to-students-of-the-birmingham-municipal-school-of-art-1898-1st-golden-type-octavo-ed-125\/","title":{"rendered":"William Morris: An Address Delivered\u2026 to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art, 1898 &#8211; 1st &#8216;Golden Type&#8217; octavo ed. \u00a3125"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u2018THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL MUST BE INTERESTED IN ART; IT MUST BE A PART OF THEIR LIVES;<\/strong><br><strong>SOMETHING WHICH THEY CAN NO MORE DO WITHOUT THAN WATER OF LIGHTING\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MORRIS,&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>William.<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>An Address Delivered by William Morris at the Distribution of Prizes to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb. 21, 1894.<\/em>&nbsp;[Edited by Sydney Carlyle Cockerell]. London: The Chiswick Press for Longmans &amp; Co., 1898.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Octavo in 4s (211 x 144mm), pp. [4 (blank l. signed \u2018a\u2019 on recto, title, verso blank)], 25, [1 (blank)], [2 (final blank l.)]. Printed in Golden type. Loosely inserted slip with letterpress text [by Cockerell] on laid paper \u2018It is hoped that this lecture &#8230;\u2019. (Light offsetting from pastedowns onto first and last ll., a few light spots on fore-edges, printed slip slightly spotted.) Original dark-blue holland-backed printed grey boards. (A few light marks, some faint browning, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped.) A very good copy, retaining the scarce and ephemeral letterpress slip.<br><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.typeandforme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3209_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.typeandforme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3209_03.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.typeandforme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3209_03-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.typeandforme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3209_03-385x350.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Second (first \u2018Golden Type\u2019 octavo) edition, one of 2,000 copies printed on \u2018Perch\u2019 paper.&nbsp;<\/strong>Founded upon earlier institutions, the Birmingham Municipal School of Art (now part of Birmingham City University) was established in 1884, was the first municipal school of art in the country, and was closely associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement. This address was given by William Morris at the school\u2019s prize-giving in the final years of his life. Morris wrote it, as he explains in his opening sentences, both for \u2018the general public about the Art which your School represents\u2019 and for \u2018the students of the School about their position and aims\u2019 (p. 1), since both were interdependent:&nbsp;\u2018in order to have a living school of Art, the public in general must be interested in Art; it must be a part of their lives; something which they can no more do without than water of lighting. We must not be able to plead poverty or necessity, as we do now, as an excuse for ugliness or dirt. If we raise a building, whether it be palace, factory, or cottage, it must be a thing well understood that it must be sightly: if a railway has to be run from one place to another, it must be taken for granted that the minimum of destruction of natural beauty must be incurred, even if that should increase the expense of the line largely\u2019 (p. 2). The address closes with the words \u2018I, an old man now, have been much encouraged with what I have seen of the enthusiasm, &amp; aspirations toward the right road, of the Birmingham School of Art during the last few years, &amp; 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\u2019 (pp. 24-25).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.typeandforme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3209_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.typeandforme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3209_04.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.typeandforme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3209_04-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.typeandforme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3209_04-243x350.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morris\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Address<\/em>&nbsp;was first printed in the first half of 1894 in pamphlet form, apparently for free distribution (the British Library received its statutory copy on 8 July 1894). This present, second edition was the first in a five-volume series \u2013 called the \u2018Golden Type octavo ed[itio]n\u2019 by May Morris (Le Mire) \u2013 which reprinted fugitive lectures and essays by Morris after his death in 1896. The Kelmscott Press had closed shortly after its founder\u2019s death, and as Cockerell states in his letterpress note inserted in this volume, \u2018all the wood blocks of the initials and ornaments have been given to the British Museum. The type remains under the control of the trustees [of Morris\u2019s estate]\u2019. The five volumes were published by Longmans on behalf of Morris\u2019s estate and were printed using the Golden type. For this first volume the type was set by the Kelmscott Press compositors and the formes were then supplied to the Chiswick Press, who were \u2018responsible only for the machining and the binding\u2019 of the books (<em>loc. cit<\/em>.; the four subsequent volumes of the series were typeset and printed by the Chiswick Press). The Chiswick Press completed the printing of 2,000 sets of sheets on 18 April 1898, and 1,500 sets were bound up for publication on or shortly after 1 June 1898 and sold at 2<em>s<\/em>. 6<em>d<\/em>. (the remaining 500 sets of sheets were bound up in 1901 and the copies were priced at 3<em>s<\/em>.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A Bookman\u2019s Catalogue: The Norman Colbeck Collection<\/em>, p. 586;&nbsp;E. 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