Architecture and history, and Westminster Abbey
This 1900 London book by William Morris, published by Longmans, is a general essay collection on architecture and history, with a focus on Westminster Abbey, written for readers interested in building and the past. The single picture is a bookplate-style interior engraving, showing a panelled room with a fireplace, tall bookshelves, an upholstered armchair and a patterned rug, drawn in fine black line. A designer might take from it the dense crosshatched line work, the framed ex libris lettering across the top, and the orderly symmetry of wood panelling and shelving.
