(TRADE CATALOGUE)  MORRIS & COMPANY.  MERTON ABBEY AND HALLS.

(TRADE CATALOGUE)  MORRIS & COMPANY.  MERTON ABBEY AND HALLS.  

London: Chiswick Press, 1925. 8vo. Printed wrappers, edges untrimmed. 10, (1) pages, 2 colored plates.

A rare trade catalogue with only one copy recorded on OCLC at the Royal Ontario Museum.  A little jewel of a catalogue, printed by Chiswick Press, for churches and parish halls to be built on "an inexpensive scheme of construction suited to small or poor parishes, but far superior to that employed in temporary buildings."  Measurements and prices for the three schemes are included.  This scheme of construction was based on the same system as the simpler buildings of mediaeval England: "In them the principals started from the floor level in two curved pieces of oak which met at the ridge tree.  These couples, as they were called, carried the roof, and between them there ran walls of either stone, brick, wattle or boarding...The strength of the structure lay in the couples of principals."  Suitable oak being unavailable, the "couples" here are to be of stout pitch pine.  The Catalogue is enhanced with suggestions and illustrations for Arts and Crafts style altar, benches, communion rails, oak lectern and oak font all of which are priced.  An unusual and rare Morris & Company catalogue in near fine condition.   

$875.00