(DOVES PRESS). COBDEN-SANDERSON, THOMAS JAMES.

LONDON: A PAPER READ AT A MEETING OF THE ART WORKERS GUILD . . . MARCH 6, 1891.

(1906). 235 x 165 mm (9 1/4 x 6 1/2"). 7, [1] pp. ONE OF 300 COPIES on paper. (There were also five on vellum.)

Original flexible vellum, gilt spine titling. Text on final page in black and red. Tomkinson, pp. 54-55. A hint of soiling to the lower cover, binding vaguely rumpled (as usual), otherwise a very fine copy inside and out.

In this paper, Cobden-Sanderson laments that London has developed, not according to a sensible plan that would reflect its people and its people's accomplishments, but as the result of individuals striving for their own profit. He encourages a kind of architectural revolution, including a building upwards, as the expression of the collective mind and ideals of a great nation. His address met with less than enthusiastic response. The colophon here indicates that the book was composed and printed by Cobden-Sanderson's son Richard (always known as Dickie), who was then a 22-year-old apprentice at the press. To his father's joy, Dickie set up as a publisher under his own name in 1919. (CRS0944)