Emery Walker: some light on his theories of printing and on his relations with William Morris and Cobden-Sanderson, by Colin Franklin, 1973-1974
Scope and Contents
Folder 1 = letters before publication from Trevor Jones and John Dreyfus, the latter enclosing a letter from R. C. H. Briggs to him, and photocopies of legal papers in the case of Walker v. Cobden-Sanderson. Also with these is a photograph of Walker and Cobden-Sanderson, and a copy marked for reproduction Folder 2 = letters after publication from Lewis Allen, British Library, Colin Franklin, David Gentleman, Philip Hofer, Michael Hornby, Jonah Jones, Geoffrey Keynes, Lynton Lamb, Giovanni Mardersteig, Roger Mynors, G. W. Ovink, John F. Peckham, Edmund Poole, Vivian Ridler, Herbert Simon, Paul Standard, Maximilien Vox, and Hermann Zapf.
Dates
- Creation: 1973-1974
Creator
- From the Fonds: Crutchley, Brooke, 1907-2003 (printer) (Person)
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Extent
2 folder(s) (2 folders)
Language of Materials
English
Subject
- Keynes, Sir Geoffrey Langdon, 1887-1982 (Knight, surgeon and bibliophile) (Person)
- Vox, Maximilien, 1894-1974 (writer typographer) (Person)
- Dreyfus, John, 1918-2002 (typographer and printer) (Person)
- Zapf, Hermann, b 1918 (calligrapher and type designer) (Person)
- Ridler, Vivian Hughes, 1913-2009 (printer) (Person)
- Simon, Herbert, 1898-1974 (printer) (Person)
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