Journal of the William Morris Society, Winter 1962   [43] The Published Writings of Sir Sydney Cockerell [by R. C. H. Briggs] The published writings of Sir Sydney Cockerell are of small extent. He must often, in his sixty years or so of active work, have been asked to write for publication; it is certain that he was invited to edit the Collected Works of William Morris - and declined. Perhaps he felt his powers unsuited to extended studies. But though few in number, these writings exhibit the rare qualities of conciseness and precision. Sir Sydney's Short History of the Kelmscott Press and catalogue of the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts are fine exemplars of these qualities. His appreciations of friends form another notable category. For him friendship was the greatest treasure of life and this belief no doubt strengthened his power of delineating a friend with sympathy and accuracy.            Some of Sir Sydney's most interesting writings cannot readily be included in the following list, even where they have appeared in print, as for the most part they have not. These are the numerous and valuable annotations with which, in his minute but clear hand, he enriched many a volume. It has been thought right to include the two volumes of letters to him published in 1940 and 1956, for they are studded with pieces from his pen.       r.c.h.b. A LIST OF LAND AND FRESHWATER SHELLS OCCURRING NEAR LONDON. Hardwick's Science-Gossip, Vol. XIX (1883) p. 9. Carlyle and Ruskin (two letters). English Illustrated Magazine. November 1891. SOME  GERMAN   WOODCUTS   OF   THE   FIFTEENTH  CENTURY  Compiled and edited by S.C.C. Kelmscott Press, 1897. (Thirty-five reproductions from printed books in the library of William Morris preceded by extracts by him on the early printed books of Ulm and Augsburg, followed by a list of the principal woodcut books in Morris' library.) A note by William Morris on his aims in founding the Kelmscott Press, together with a short description of the Press by S. C. Cockerell, and an annotated list of the books printed thereat. Kelmscott Press, 1898. [44] an engraving of London in 1510 illustrated from the Cronycle of Englande (printed by Richard Pynson). The Annual Record of the London Topographical Society, 1900. A  DESCRIPTIVE  CATALOGUE  OF  THE   SECOND   SERIES   OF  FIFTY MSS. (Nos. 51-100) in the collection of Henry Yates Thompson, the notices contributed by various hands including S.C.C.'s. Illustrated. 1902. THE  BOOK   OF   HOURS   OF   YOLANDE   OF   FLANDERS :  a  manuscript of the Fourteenth Century in the library of Henry Yates Thompson with a description by S.C.C., and a preface by H. Y. Thompson. Illustrated. 1905. a psalter and hours executed before 1270 for a lady connected with St Louis, probably his sister, Isabella of France, founder of the Abbey of Longchamp, now in the collection of Henry Yates Thompson. Described by S. C. Cockerell in relation to the companion psalter of St Louis in Paris, with photo engravings of the miniatures by Emery Walker, 1905. the gorleston psalter: a manuscript of the beginning of the Fourteenth Century in the library of C. W. Dyson Perrins, described in relation to other East Anglican books of the period by Sydney C. Cockerell. Illustrated. 1907. A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF TWENTY ILLUMINATED MSS. (SUB­STITUTES) in the collection of Henry Yates Thompson (Nos. 75-94), (with H. Y. Thompson). Illustrated. 1907. CATALOGUE   OF   THE   BURLINGTON   FINE   ARTS   CLUB   EXHIBITION OF ILLUMINATED MSS.   1908. CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION  OF THE  WORK OF  WILLIAM MORRIS, The Municipal School of Art, Manchester, Introduction. Oct. 1908. CATALOGUE   OF   THE   BURLINGTON   FINE   ARTS   CLUB   EXHIBITION   OF ILLUMINATED MSS. Illustrated edition. 1909. catalogue of illuminated mss. part II. Miniatures, leaves and cuttings; Victoria and Albert Museum, (with E. F. Strange). 1908. letter to M. Fernand de Mely, dated 14 August 1910, concerning his account of the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of Illuminated MSS. Revue Archeologique, Vol. (4s) XVI, 1910. A   DESRIPTIVE  CATALOGUE  OF   FOURTEEN   ILLUMINATED  MSS.,  completing the hundred in the library of Henry Yates Thompson (with others). Illustrated. 1912. [45] THE PRINCIPAL   PICTURES   IN   THE   FITZWILLIAM   MUSEUM,   Cambridge. Prefatory note by S.C.C. 1912. Second edition 1929. THE GENIUS loci. Cambridge Magazine. 7 March 1914. LA CALLIGRAPHIE   ET   L'ENLUMINURE   MODERNES    EN   ANGLETERRE (British Arts and Crafts Exhibition Catalogue). 1914. CATALOGUE OF MINIATURES, LEAVES AND CUTTINGS from illustrated MSS. (Another edition of the 1908 catalogue.) Victoria & Albert Museum. (With E. F. Strange). 1923. Charles Montague Doughty (an appreciation), The Observer, 24 Jan. 1926. two east Anglican psalters at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the Ormesby Psalter, MS. Douce 366; described by S.C.C. Illustrated. 1926. (Presented by S.C.C. to his fellow members of the Roxburghe Club). a book of Old Testament illustrations in the middle of the Thirteenth Century, sent by Cardinal Bernard Maciejowski to Shah Abbas the Great, King of Persia; described by S.C.C. Illus­trated. 1927. Charlotte Mew (an appreciation). The Times, 29 Nov. 1928. the work of W. de Brailes, an English illuminator of the Thirteenth Century.  Illustrated.   1930.  (Presented by S.C.C. to his fellow members of the Roxburghe Club.) Sir Emery Walker (obituary). The Times, 24 July 1933. Sir Emery Walker. Dictionary of National Biography. friends of a lifetime, Letters to S.C.C, ed. Viola Meynell, 1940. Edward Johnston (an appreciation). The Times, 29 Nov. 1944. C. H. St. John Hornby (an appreciation). Spectator, 10 May 1945. Edward Johnston, a tribute. One of six short papers read at a memorial meeting convened by the Society of Scribes  and Illuminators, 1947. The Life of William Morris by J. W. Mackail. Introduction to the World's Classics edition, 1950. Mrs. Edmund Webb (Miss Katherine Adams) (an appreciation). The Times, 20 Oct. 1952. Dame Laurentia Mclachlan (obituary). The Times, 23 Aug. 1953. Handwriting Sheets by P. Barry O.S.B. Introduction. 1954. (46) The Best of Friends. Further Letters to S.C.C., ed. Viola Meynell, 1956. THE TYPOGRAPHICAL ADVENTURE OF WILLIAM  MORRIS - AN EXHIBITION. Foreword to Catalogue. 1957. Edward Johnston by Priscilla Johnston. Foreword. 1959. JOURNAL   OF   THE   WILLIAM   MORRIS    SOCIETY.   Foreword.   Winter 1961. A  NOTE  ON  WARINGTON TAYLOR AND PHILIP  WEBB.  Journal of the William Morris Society, Winter 1962. S.C.C.: Biographical Note Born 16 July 1867 Abbey School, Beckenham, 1875-1880 Father died 1877 St. Paul's School, 1882-1884 Employed by Geo. J. Cockerell & Co., coal-merchants, as a clerk 1885-1888; a partner, 1889-1892 First visit to Normandy, 1885 Morris & Emery Walker dined at his Mother's house, 27 November 1886 First had supper at Kelmscott House, 13 February 1887 With Ruskin at Beauvais, July 1888 Met Philip Webb for first time, 13 March 1890 Elected to Committee of the S.P.A.B., 17 April 1890 First visit to Italy with the Art Workers Guild (Walker & G. B. Shaw in party), September 1891 First visit to Kelmscott, 5 August 1892 Morris asked S.C.C. to catalogue his library, 19 October 1892, S.C.C. started work, 1 November 1892 Met W. R. Lethaby for first time, 12 January 1892 Elected secretary to the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society, 9 February 1893 Started as secretary of the New Gallery, 1 April 1893 First visit to Spain, 1893 Returned to work at Kelmscott House, 15 January 1894 Morris asked S.C.C. to take over secretaryship of the Kelmscott Press. 25 May 1894 Morris dictated to S.C.C. the end of the Sundering Flood, 27 August 1896 Closed the Kelmscott Press, 31 March 1898 Part-time secretary to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 1898-1900 Partner in Walker & Cockerell, process engravers, June 1900-August 1904 First met Dame Laurentia McLachlan, 5 January 1907 Married Florence Kingsford, 4 November 1907 Organized the Burlington Fine Arts Club exhibition of Illuminated MSS. 19 May- 19 July 1908 Appointed Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 30 May 1908 (until 1937) Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge 1910 (until 1916) (47) Visited America, October 1920 Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, 1932 (until 1937)  HOME · LIFE · ART · WRITING · SOCIAL THOUGHT NEWS/EVENTS · JOIN · THE SOCIETY · CONTACT US LAST UPDATE 28 JAN 2008 · PLEASE REPORT BROKEN LINKS TO WEBMASTER @ MORRISSOCIETY.ORG