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Anscombe, Isabelle. Arts and Crafts Style (Oxford, 1991)

Anscombe, Isabelle and Gere, Charlotte. Arts and Crafts in Britain and America (London, 1978)

Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, Arts and Crafts Essays, by members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, with a preface by William Morris (London, 1893)

Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, Catalogues of the Exhibitions (London, 1888-1916)

Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: papers (1886-1977). Archive of Art and Design (AAD), Victoria and Albert Museum

Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, Art and Life, and the Building and Decoration of Cities, a series of lectures delivered at the fifth exhibition of the society in 1896 (London, 1897)

Ayres, Dianne, Hansen, Timothy, McPherson, Beth Ann and McPherson II, Tommy Arthur. American Arts and Crafts Textiles (New York, 2002)

Baillie Scott, M.H. Houses and Gardens: Arts and Crafts Interiors (Woodbridge, 1995; originally published 1906)

Beattie, Susan. The New Sculpture (London, 1983)

Beauty's Awakening: The Centenary of the Art Workers Guild 1884-1984 (Brighton, Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museum, exhib. cat., 1984)

Bergesen, Victoria. Encyclopaedia of British Art Pottery 1870-1920 (London, 1991)

Blench, Brian et al. The Glasgow Style, 1890-1920 (Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, exhib. cat., 1984)

Boris, Eileen. Art and Labor: Ruskin, Morris, and the Craftsman Ideal in America (Philadelphia, 1986)

Bosley, Edward R. Greene and Greene (London, 2000)

Boulton Smith, John. The Golden Age of Finnish Art: Art Nouveau and the National Spirit (Helsinki, 1976 and 1985)

Bowman, Lesley Greene. American Arts and Crafts. Virtue in Design (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, exhib. cat., 1990)

Brandstätter, Christian. Wiener Werkstätte. Design in Vienna 1903-1932 (New York, 2003)

Burkhauser, Jude (ed.), 'Glasgow Girls': Women in Art and Design, 1880-1920 (Glasgow School of Art, exhib. cat., 1990)

Calhoun, Ann. The Arts and Crafts Movement in New Zealand 1870-1940 (Auckland, 2000)

Callen, Anthea. Angel in the Studio (London, 1979)

Carruthers, A. Edward Barnsley and his Workshop: Arts and Crafts in the Twentieth Century (Wendlebury, 1992)

Carruthers, Annette and Greensted, Mary. Good Citizens' Furniture: The Arts and Crafts Collections at Cheltenham (London, 1994)

Carruthers, Annette and Greensted, Mary (eds). Simplicity or Splendour. Arts and Crafts Living: Objects from the Cheltenham Collections (Cheltenham and London, 1999)

Cathers, David. Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement (New York, 1981)

Cathers, David. Gustav Stickley (New York, 2003)

Clark, Robert Judson (ed.). The Arts and Crafts Movement in America 1876-1916 (Art Museum, Princeton University, NJ, exhib. cat., 1972)

Cobden-Sanderson, T.J. The Arts and Crafts Movement (London, 1905)

Cooper, Jeremy. Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors: From the Gothic Revival to Art Nouveau (London, 1987)

Crane, Walter. The Claims of Decorative Art (London, 1892)

Crane, Walter. Ideals in Art (London, 1905)

Crane, Walter. An Artist's Reminiscences (New York, 1907)

Crane, Walter. From William Morris to Whistler (London, 1911)

Crawford, A. C.R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer & Romantic Socialist (New Haven and London, 1985)

Crawford, Alan (ed.). By Hammer and Hand: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Birmingham (Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, exhib. cat., 1994)

Crawford, Alan. Charles Rennie Mackintosh (London, 1995)

Crowley, David and Taylor, Lou. The Lost Arts of Europe, the Haslemere Peasant Arts Collection (Haslemere Educational Museum, Haslemere, exhib. cat., 2002)

Cumming, Elizabeth. Arts and Crafts in Edinburgh 1880-1930 (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, exhib. cat., 1985)

Cumming, Elizabeth, and Kaplan, Wendy. The Arts and Crafts Movement (London, 1991)

Cumming, Elizabeth. Phoebe Anna Traquair (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, exhib. cat., 1993)

Cunningham, Patricia. Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920 (Kent, OH, 2003)

Davey, Peter. Arts and Crafts Architecture (London, 1980)

De Bois, M. Chris Lebeau 1878-1945 (Drents Museum, Assen/Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, exhib. cat., 1987)

Denker, Bert and Robertson, Cheryl. New Perspectives on the American Arts and Crafts Movement (Winterthur, DE, 1991)

De Waal, Edmund. Bernard Leach (London, 1998)

De Waal, Edmund, Faulkner, R. et al. Timeless Beauty: Traditional Japanese Art from the Montgomery Collection (Milan, 2002)

Elliott, Bridget and Helland, Janice (eds). Women Artists and the Decorative Arts 1880-1935: The Gender of Ornament (Aldershot, 2002)

Exhibition of Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Arts (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, exhib. cat., 1952)

Faulkner, Rupert. Japanese Studio Crafts (London, 1995)

Fidler, Patricia J. Art with a Mission: Objects of the Arts and Crafts Movement (Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, exhib. cat., 1991)

Gere, Charlotte and Munn, Geoffrey C. Artist's Jewellery: Pre-Raphaelite to Arts and Crafts(Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1989)

Gordon Bowe, Nicola (ed.). Art and the National Dream: The Search for Vernacular Expression in Turn of the Century Design (Dublin, 1993)

Gordon Bowe, Nicola, and Cumming, Elizabeth. The Arts and Crafts Movements in Dublin & Edinburgh, 1885-1925 (Dublin, 1998)

Green, Nancy E. and Poesch, Jessie. Arthur Wesley Dow and American Arts and Crafts (Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, exhib. cat., 1999)

Greenhalgh, Paul (ed.). Art Nouveau 1890-1914 (London, 2000)

Greenhalgh, Paul (ed.). The Persistence of Craft (London and New Jersey, 2002)

Greensted, Mary. Gimson and the Barnsleys: 'Wonderful Furniture of a Commonplace Kind' (Stroud, 1980)

Greensted, Mary. The Arts & Crafts Movement in the Cotswolds (Stroud, 1992)

Greensted, Mary and Wilson, Sophia (eds). Originality and Initiative: The Arts and Crafts Archives at Cheltenham (Cheltenham, 2003)

Haigh, Diane. Baillie Scott: The Artistic House (London, 1995)

Harrod, Tanya. The Crafts in Britain in the 20th Century (New Haven and London, 1999)

Hitchmough, Wendy. C.F.A. Voysey (London, 1995)

Hitchmough, Wendy. Arts and Crafts Gardens (London, 1997)

Hitchmough, Wendy. The Arts and Crafts Home (London, 2000)

Hitchmough, Wendy. Arts and Crafts Gardens (London 2005)

Howard, Jeremy. Art Nouveau: International and National Styles in Europe (Manchester, NY, 1996)

Howarth, Thomas. Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Modern Movement (London, 1977)

Kallir, Jane. Viennese Design and the Wiener Werkstätte (New York, 1986)

Kaplan, Wendy. 'The Art that is Life': The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exhib. cat., 1987)

Kaplan, Wendy (ed.). Designing Modernity: The Arts of Reform and Persuasion 1885-1945 (The Wolfsonian - Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, exhib. cat., 1995)

Kaplan, Wendy (ed.). Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Glasgow Museums and Art Gallery, exhib. cat., 1996)

Kaplan, Wendy et al. Encyclopaedia of Arts and Crafts: The International Arts Movement 1850-1920 (London, 1989)

Kardon, Janet. The Ideal Home: The History of Twentieth Century American Craft, 1900-1920 (American Craft Museum, New York, exhib. cat., 1993)

Kelvin, Norman (ed.). The Collected Letters of William Morris, 4 vols (Princeton, NJ, 1984-96)

Kikuchi, Yuko and Watanabe, Toshio. Ruskin in Japan 1890-1940: Nature for Art, Art for Life (Tokyo, 1997)

Kikuchi, Yuko. Japanese Modernisation and Mingei Theory: Cultural Nationalism and Oriental Orientalism (London, 2004)

Kirk, Sheila. Philip Webb: Pioneer of Arts and Crafts Architecture (Chichester, 2004)

Kornwolf, James D. M.H. Baillie Scott and the Arts and Crafts Movement: Pioneers of Modern Design (Baltimore and London, 1972)

Lambourne, Lionel. The Arts and Crafts Movement: Artists, Craftsmen and Designers 1890-1930 (Fine Art Society, London, exhib. cat., 1973)

Lambourne, Lionel. Utopian Craftsmen: The Arts and Crafts Movement from the Cotswolds to Chicago (London, 1980)

Larmour, Paul. The Arts and Crafts Movement in Ireland (Belfast, 1992)

Lethaby, W.R. Philip Webb and His Work (Oxford, 1935)

Liberty's 1875-1975 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, exhib. cat., 1975)

Livingstone, Karen and Linda Parry. International Arts and Crafts (London 2005)

Livingstone, Karen. Essential Arts and Crafts (London 2005)

Ludwig, Coy L. The Arts & Crafts Movement in New York State 1890s-1920s (Hamilton, NY, 1983)

MacCarthy, Fiona. The Simple Life: C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds (London 1981)

MacCarthy, Fiona. William Morris: A Life for our Time (London 1994)

McFadden, David Revere (ed.). Scandinavian Modern Design 1880-1980 (Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, exhib. cat., 1982)

Mackail, W.J. The Life of William Morris, vols I & II (London, New York and Bombay, 1899)

Mackmurdo, A.H. 'History of the Arts and Crafts Movement' (unpublished manuscript, William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow)

Marsh, Jan. Back to the Land: the Pastoral Impulse in Victorian England (London, 1982)

Martin, Stephen A. Archibald Knox (London, 2001)

Massé, H.J.L.J. The Art-Workers' Guild 1884-1934 (Oxford, 1935)

Meyer, Marilee Boyd et al. Inspiring Reform: Boston's Arts and Crafts Movement (Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Mass., exhib. cat., 1997)

Moon, Karen. George Walton (Oxford, 1993)

Morris, Barbara. Liberty Design 1874-1914 (London, 1989)

Morris, William. Arts and Crafts Essays (London, 1899)

Muthesius, H. Das englische Haus (Berlin, 1904-5; abridged English translation of 2nd edn, ed. D. Sharpe, London, 1979)

Naylor, Gillian. The Arts and Crafts Movement: A Study of its Sources, Ideals and Influence on Design Theory (London, 1971)

Naylor Gillian (ed.). William Morris by Himself: Designs and Writings (London, 1988)

Noever, Peter (ed.). Der Preis der Schönheit. 100 Jahre Wiener Werkstätte (MAK, Vienna, exhib. cat., 2004)

Now the Light Comes from the North: Art Nouveau in Finland (Bröhan-Museum, Berlin, exhib. cat., 2002)

Ogata, Amy. Art Nouveau and the Social Vision of Modern Living: Belgian Artists in a European Context (Cambridge, 2001)

Parry, Linda. William Morris Textiles (London, 1983)

Parry, Linda. Textiles of the Arts and Crafts Movement (London, 1988)

Parry, Linda (ed.). William Morris (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, exhib. cat., 1996)

Pevsner, Nikolaus. Pioneers of the Modern Movement from William Morris to Walter Gropius (London, 1936)

Potochniak, Andrea (ed.). Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony (Ithaca, NY, 2004)

Price, Renée (ed.). New Worlds: German and Austrian Art 1890-1940 (Neue Galerie, New York, exhib. cat., 2002)

Richardson, Margaret. Architects of the Arts and Crafts Movement (London, 1983)

Ruskin, John. The Stones of Venice, 3 vols (London, 1851-3)

Salmond, W. Arts and Crafts in Late Imperial Russia: Reviving the Kustar Art Industries 1870-1917 (Cambridge, 1996)

Savage, Peter. Lorimer and the Edinburgh Craft Designers (Edinburgh, 1980)

Sedding, J. D. Art and Handicraft (London 1893)

Smith, Bruce and Vertikoff, Alexander. Greene and Greene Masterworks (San Francisco, 1998)

Snodin, Michael and Stavenow-Hidemark, Elisabet. Carl and Karin Larsson: Creators of the Swedish Style (London, 1997)

Stansky, Peter. Redesigning the World: William Morris, the 1880s, and the Arts and Crafts (Princeton, NJ, 1985)

Stavenow-Hidemark, Elisabet. Sub Rosa. När skönheten kom frän England (Stockholm, 1991)

Stedelijk Museum. Industry & Design in the Netherlands 1850-1950 (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, exhib. cat. 1986)

Stickley, Gustav. Craftsman Homes: Architecture and Furnishings of the American Arts and Crafts Movement (1909; reprinted London and New York, 1979)

Thompson, E.P. William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary (London, 1955)

Tinniswood, Adrian. The Arts and Crafts House (London, 1999)

Trapp, Kenneth. The Arts and Crafts Movement in California: Living the Good Life (New York, 1993)

Triggs, Oscar Lovell. Chapters in the History of the Arts and Crafts Movement (Chicago, 1902)

Ulmer, Renate, Museum Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt (Darmstadt 1990)

Victorian Church Art (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, exhib. cat., 1971)

Völker, Angela. Wiener Mode und Modefotografie. Die Modeabteilung der Wiener Werkstätte 1911-1932 (Vienna, 1984)

Volpe, Todd and Cathers, Beth. Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement (New York, 1988)

Weisberg, Gabriel and Menon, Elizabeth K., Art Nouveau: A Research Guide for Design Reform in France, Belgium, England and the United States (New York, 1998)

Whiteway, Michael and Gere, Charlotte. Nineteenth-Century Design, from Pugin to Mackintosh (London, 1993)

Yanagi, Sõetsu, adapted by Bernard Leach. The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into Beauty (Tokyo, 1972)

Yanagi, Sõetsu, Yanagi Sõetsu Zenshû (Collected Works of Yanagi Sõetsu), 22 vols (Tokyo, 1981)

Ylvisker, Anne Britt. 'National Costume, a Symbol of Norwegian Identity' in J.M. Fladmark (ed.), Heritage and Museums: Shaping National Identity (Donhead, 2000), pp. 299-309.

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