Background
NEW, Edmund Horticulture was born in 1871. 5. of Herbert New, solicitor, of Evesham.
NEW, Edmund Horticulture was born in 1871. 5. of Herbert New, solicitor, of Evesham.
Studied at Prince Henry’s Grammar School, Evesham. Birmingham Municipal School of Art (18S6-95), studying under East. R. Taylor and A. J. Gaskin, and teaching at branch school.
Principal books illustrated:—In the Garden of Peace, 1896. The Compleat Angler, Oxford and its Colleges, 1897. The Life of William Morris, 1899.
The Natural History of Selborne, 1900.
The Wessex of Thomas Hardy, Some Impressions of Oxford, 1901. Haunts ol Ancient Peace, 190"2.
Chester, 1903.
Evesham (WTitten and illustrated), 1904, and other volumes of The Temple Topographies. Lincoln, Bristol, The College Monographs series (edited and illustrated), The Scholar Gipsy, and Thyrsis, 1906.
Poems by Willliam Wordsworth, 1907.
Plates of New College, Oxlord, 1907. The Towers of Oxford, 19u8. Brasenose College, 1909.
Magdalen and Wadliam Colleges, 1910.
Also contributions to The Quest (Birmingham), The English Illustrated Magazine, The Studio, and The Architectural Review. Member of The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, The Art Workers’ Guild, and Associate Birmingham Royal Society of Artists. Book Illustrator, Designer of Bookplates, Lecturer on Fine Art, et cetera