Excerpt from Transactions of the Guild School of Handicraft, Vol. 1<br><br>The valuable work attempted, and now for three years most successfully carried on, with re-assuring development and growth, by the Guild and School of Handicraft, in their workshop, at 34, Commercial Street, Whitechapel, whose transactions and history, with practical teaching given to the Guild in lectures by friends Of 'the movement, are contained in this volume, needs neither introduction nor explanation; it speaks for itself. Good wine, says an Old proverb, needs no bush. A few words, however, on the subject Of Handicraft in relation to Fine Art, may perhaps be permitted in response to a kindly invitation from the Editor, which it would have been Churlish to decline. IT is certain that any hope Of vital art in England, and indeed, anywhere, in modern times, must be based on working, not dilletanté principles. An art cannot be grafted, or planted, it must Spring from its native soil, or it can never flourish in the right nobleness Of full health and figour-rfltfi{tilt-atfiéfi for more than a hundred years, art, as understood In the highest sense, the sense in which literature is estimated.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.