Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Walker, Emery, Sir, 1851-1933
- Abstract:
- Sir Emery Walker (1851-1933) cofounded the process and general engraving firm of Walker & Boutall (later Emery Walker, Limited) and the Kelmscott Press with William Morris. Walker later helped found the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society (1888), and was elected to the committee of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. He was also the secretary to the Hammersmith branch of the Socialist movement, cofounded the Doves Press (1900), and was the Sandars reader in bibliography at Cambridge University (1924-1925). The collection consists of business correspondence to Emery Walker and his business associates from various persons.
- Extent:
- 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
- Language:
- Finding aid is written in English.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of letters to Emery Walker and his business associates from various persons. Most of the letters are concerned with business. Correspondents include Hillaire Belloc, Laurence Binyon, Edward Gordon Craig, Edmund William Gosse, Harley Granville-Barker, George Campbell Macaulay, and John Masefield.
- Biographical / historical:
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Walker was born on April 2, 1851 in Paddington, London, England; attended St. Mark's College, Chelsea, and at age 14 began a succession of laborious occupations; met Alfred Dawson who had perfected a form of etching known as glyptography; joined him in 1873 at the Typographic Etching Company; in 1886, Walker cofounded the process and general engraving firm of Walker & Boutall, later Emery Walker, Limited; met William Morris; out of their talks and experiments came the Kelmscott Press, of which Walker was for a time a virtual partner; Walker helped found the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society in 1888, and was elected to the committee of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings; became secretary to the Hammersmith branch of the Socialist movement; in 1900 he cofounded the Doves Press; became Sandars reader in bibliography at Cambridge University, 1924-1925; was knighted in 1930; he died in Hammersmith, London on July 22, 1933.
- Acquisition information:
- Winifred A. Myers, purchase.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Printers--England--Archival resources.
Access and use
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988