TALWIN MORRIS and BLACKIE

A SELECTIVE READING LIST

 

primary and before 1911

anon., "Mr.Talwin Morris' Designs for Cloth Bindings" Studio magazine, Vol 15 1899

anon, "Some Glasgow Designers" Studio magazine 1898

R.E.D Sketchley, "Book Bindings", Art Journal, 1907 pp. 137 - 147 reproduces some Gresham bindings, e.g. The casket of Irish Literature, The Modern Cyclopaedia, The Waverley Novels, The Works of Shakespeare, Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice.

secondary

Gerald Cinamon, "Talwin Morris, Blackie and the Glasgow style", The Private Library, Third Series Vol 10:1 Spring 1987; a second article was published in Spring 1990

Thomas Howarth, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, RKP London 1977 2nd edition.

John Russell Taylor, The Art Nouveau Book in Britain, Harris Edinburgh 1966

Timothy Neat, Part Seen, Part Imagined Meaning and Symbolism in the Work of Charles Rennie Macdonald and Margaret Macdonald, Canongate Press, Edinburgh 1994, contains excerpts from a manuscript article by TM on The Christmas Story illustrations by the Misses Macdonald.

Sotheby's Sale Catalogue Illustrated Books and Drawings Thursday 21.11.1996 (449) a collection made by Gerald Cinamon of 630 volumes with designs by TM, with

Fiona MacSporran, Talwin Morris, BASELINE International Typographics Journal, ISSUE 23 1997, reproduces;

Browning (Red Letter), heading for The Present and Future of Wood Engraving, Cassell's 1896, original brass stamp for Tennyson 1906, Little Lady Clare 1897, A Dreadful Mistake 1898, School Days in France 1895, The Troubles and Triumphs of Little Tim 1895, The Ravensworth Scholarship 1897, A Girl of Galway 1902, Gladstone 1898, Annals of Westminster 1895, English Literary Criticism 1896, English Essays 1896, English Pastorals 1895, Modern Carpenter 1902, Scottish Parliament 1902, Natural History of Plants 1904, Queen Victoria 1901, Modern Power Generators 1908, Coriolanus, Lear, Romeo and Juliet all 1907 in the Red Letter Shakespeare series, The World We Live in 1901