£1,500.00

Birmngham: W.H.Haseler Ltd. 1905.

Twenty seven leaves illustrated (on the recto only) with designs for gold and silver jewellery, rose bowls, cigarette cases, toilet ware (i.e. hairbrushes, scent bottles and the like), pewter clocks and more. Each leaf is protected by a tissue sheet on which the name and price are printed so that, when the tissue lies on the illustrated leaf, the text details match up with the picture. Bound in pale blue/grey card wrappers tied at the left edge with blue cord. Some soiling to covers and tears to the edges and the tissue paper is a little browned but still clear and transparent. The illustrated leaves are all in excellent condition.
William Hair Haseler founded his company in 1870, specialising in gold and silver work. In 1875, Arthur Liberty opened a small shop in Regent Street in London. Liberty's, with its finger on the pulse of the Arts and Crafts Movement and Art Nouveau quickly became the most fashionable shop in London. In 1898, Liberty and Haseler formed a partnership and then, in 1899, they began using Archibald Knox as one of their principal designers. Knox worked and studied with Christopher Dresser and, like Dresser, managed to bring together elements of Art Nouveau, Modernism and Arts and Crafts design. It is thought that Knox produced some 5,000 designs for Haseler and Liberty's.