. The Roycroft books; a catalog and some comment concerning the shop and workers at East Aurora, . was his recreation. Tocarve in wood, weave brightstrands of silk into cloth, hammeriron into shape, to paint picturesand draw forms, was to him a de-light. And there was only onething that gave William Morrismore joy than to do things withhis hands, and that was to showothers how to do things with theirhands. William Morris alwaysmade things as well as he motto was, Not how cheap,but how good. And so when the farmer-authorat the village of East Aurora, , bethought him to make ab
. The Roycroft books; a catalog and some comment concerning the shop and workers at East Aurora, . was his recreation. Tocarve in wood, weave brightstrands of silk into cloth, hammeriron into shape, to paint picturesand draw forms, was to him a de-light. And there was only onething that gave William Morrismore joy than to do things withhis hands, and that was to showothers how to do things with theirhands. William Morris alwaysmade things as well as he motto was, Not how cheap,but how good. And so when the farmer-authorat the village of East Aurora, , bethought him to make abook, he said in a burst of enthu-siasm, Why, we 11 make it likea William Morris book ! So the book was made—six hun-dred copies on the finest Englishhand-made paper—antique type,wide margins and all that, and tothe great surprise of all concernedthe book sold and the edition wassoon gone, although the work wascrude and lacking in many knowing where it was wrongthere was a great desire to makeanother book and make it a second book was begun thatwas to be an inprovement on the. All B a b a S- first and a certain Good Womanwould illumine the initials herself,as the nuns used to do, centuriesago. An old missal was unearthedfrom the bottom of a chest whereit lay wrapped in chamois, andthe work of the early Venetianswas closely Good Woman began to illu-mine, and she soon found she hada job on hand. It was slow Gardner,the eldest daugh-ter of old Mr. and Mrs. Gardner,dropped in one day and said, Letme try that! Then she came thenext day, and liked the work, forwe like anything we can do Minnie knew another girlwho had nothing to do, and therewas a sick mother to support,and so this girl was sent for tocome and help. In the meantime it was suggestedthat the boys in the bam hurrythings up a bit, and get the otherforms of the book ready to illu-mine. Then, besides, orders werecoming in for the two more boys were hired, an
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