Morris & Co

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Edward Burne-Jones and Morris & Co., detail of 2nd and 3rd tiers of east window (1894-5), Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, London SW1.

Photo: Peter Hildebrand

Morris & Co. (1875-1940) was the successor to original business of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. William Morris was always the driving force behind the ‘Firm’, and the change of name reflected his taking the business fully under his personal control, without partners, and with Burne-Jones as principal designer. The business continued long after the deaths of Morris (1896) and Burne-Jones (1898), although without any great developments of style, and often continuing to use Burne-Jones’s designs. The role of chief designer passed to J H Dearle and, on his death in 1932 to W H Knight. It finally closed in 1940.

Sources:
For a brief overview see Morris & Co on Wikipedia
Burne-Jones Special Issue, The Journal of Stained Glass, Vol. XXXV, 2011
Damozels & Deities Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1870-1898 by William Waters and Alastair Carew-Cox (Seraphim Press Ltd, 2017)
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona McCarthy, Faber & Faber, 2011.
The Stained Glass of William Morris and his circle by A Charles Sewter (Yale University Press, 1974)
William Morris: A Life for Our Time by Fiona MacCarthy (Faber & Faber, 1994)