Friday’s library snapshot … Talwin Morris continued.

Talwin Morris (1865-1911) trained as an architect with his uncle in Reading.  Then he worked on the London journal Black and White.  In 1893 he applied successfully for the post of art director at the Scottish publishers Blackies.  He was primarily a book designer ‘ prolific, able and original, his Art Nouveau book bindings foreshadow some of the most modern designs’ (The flowering of Art Nouveau graphics by Julia King)