Firm set up by William Morris (1834–96) as Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., originally with (among others) Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti Ford Madox Brown and Philip Webb in 1861. From 1865 the workshops were in Bloomsbury. The firm was reformed by Morris in 1875 under his sole control, changing its name to Morris & Co., with Burne-Jones as the principal designer. In 1881 the workshops were moved to Merton Abbey. 'Revolutionary in its beginnings, and extremely influential in terms of design and quality'. The firm continued to make stained glass after Morris' death under the direction of Henry Dearle, and the firm finally closed in 1947.
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William Waters, Angels & Icons: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1850–1870 (Abbots Morton: Serapim Press, 2012), pp. 268–97 and further references.
Peter Cormack, Arts and Crafts Stained Glass (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015), pp. 19–25 and further references.
William Waters, Damozels and Deities: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1870–1898 (Abbots Morton: Seraphim, 2017), pp. 47–167 and further references.
David Jasper, 'Pre-Raphaelite Biblical Art in Wales' (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010), pp. 150-3.
A. Charles Sewter, The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1974).
A. Charles Sewter, The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle: A Catalogue (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1975).
Paul Thompson, The Work of William Morris (Oxford: Oxford University Press, new edition, 1993), pp. 138–49.
Martin Harrison, Victorian Stained Glass (London: 1980), pp. 39–44, 48–9, 58–9 and further references.
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