New book just published

The Drawing Master.
The illustrations of Morris Meredith Williams
by Phyllida Shaw and David Grey
212 pages, 700 illustrations
https://aliceandmorris.com/two-books/

‘Beautifully designed and copiously illustrated, The Drawing Master is not only a rich testament to the skill, sympathy and vision of Morris Meredith Williams, but also a succinct survey of a fascinating period in book publishing and illustration.’
Jenny Uglow

‘Like some magical, time-travelling bridge between the medieval and the modern world, these gloriously dynamic graphic works evoke the conjoined spirits of Albrecht Dürer, William Blake, William Morris, Aubrey Beardsley, Arthur Rackham and Girls’ Annual or Boys’ Own adventures. They even anticipate modern-day anime in the way they create vividly real fantasy out of historical realism, rural idyll, natural history and archaic myth. There is illumination and darkness here, everything you need. One can almost dive into their stories, stepping through their frames – made more powerful by what Blake called ‘the bounding line’ – leading us into the perfect, wondrous imagining of Morris Meredith Williams’ mind.’
Philip Hoare