Morris & Co
Morris & Co. (1875-1940) was the successor to original business of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. William Morris had always been the driving force behind ‘the Firm’ and he finally determined to remove his earlier partners and to take the business into his own hands, with Burne-Jones as principal designer. The business flourished, producing stained glass windows the length and breadth of the country. It 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.
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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)
