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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Historical research into the origins and development of twentieth-century British crafts the people their connections their philosophies their workshops the cultural significance of their work – has for a long time lagged behind research to the equivalent history of modern design for mass-production. There have of course been many attempts to trace the development of a particular medium or material used by craftspeople and even more attempts to compile illustrated books about “how to do it” but on the whole the complex traditions out of which contemporary craft work has emerged have been seriously neglected by scholars and critics alike. Pioneers of Modern Craft is a book that remains to be written. There are many reasons for this. Where the actual research is concerned there is the problem of tracking down the written evidence (in the form of recipe books accounts diaries letters reminiscences) out of which such a history could be constructed: a rather special problem where most crafts- people are concerned. Where the framework of the study is concerned William Morris and C. R. Ashbee have usually been treated in the literature as pioneers of modern design part of a dominant tradition