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Mice Playing Tug of War―endpaper design

This design was made for a 1912 publication containing music by Joseph Moorat and illustrations by his brother-in-law Paul Woodroffe. After studies at the Slade School, the latter joined the Art Workers' Guild, then became part of the circle of Charles Robert Ashbee, whose Guild of Handicraft and Essex House Press had moved to Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire from London in 1902. Moorat already lived in nearby Westington and, when Woodroffe bought an adjacent cottage in 1904, Ashbee supervised the renovations. Working at the heart of the Arts and Crafts community, and aware of predecessors and contemporaries, Woodroffe here draws silhouetted mice tugging on a rope amongst leafy fronds―in the related book, the background is changed to pale green.

A site-relevant selection of nursery songs from [i]Thirty Old-Time Nursery Songs[/i], a book published in [[1907]] and illustrated by [[Paul Vincent Woodroffe]].