| LC control no. | n 50024587 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Walker, Emery, 1851-1933 |
| Variant(s) | Walker, Emery, Sir, 1851-1933 |
| See also | Founded corporate body: Walker & Boutall Founded corporate body: Walker & Cockerell Founded corporate body: Emery Walker Limited |
| Address | 7 Hammersmith Terrace London England |
| Birth date | 1851-04-02 |
| Death date | 1933-07-22 |
| Place of birth | Paddington (London, England) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Engraving Photoengraving Printing |
| Affiliation | Walker & Boutall Walker & Cockerell Emery Walker Ltd. Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society Kelmscott Press Doves Press |
| Profession or occupation | Engravers Typographers Printers |
| Found in | LC in OCLC, 6-8-93 (hdg.: Walker, Emery, Sir, 1851-1933) Blake, W. Illustrations to the Divine comedy of Dante, 1922: t.p. verso (Emery Walker Limited) Introd. (reproduced in collotype by Mr. Emery Walker) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (WWW), July 30, 2015: under Walker, Sir Emery, 1851-1933 (process engraver and typographer; born at 10 Pickering Terrace, Paddington, Middlesex [London] on 2 April 1851; in 1886, in partnership with Walter Boutall, founded the firm of "process and general engravers, draughtsmen, map-constructors, and photographers of works of art" known first as Walker and Boutall, later as Walker and Cockerell, and finally as Emery Walker, Ltd.; in 1888, with William Morris, Walter Crane and others, founded the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society; in 1891, with Morris, established the Kelmscott Press; he "declined to be a partner in this costly enterprise ... Nevertheless, he was all the while a virtual partner, and no important step was taken without his advice and approval"; in 1900, in partnership with T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, he founded the Doves Press; partnership severed in 1909; died at his home, 7 Hammersmith Terrace [London], on 22 July 1933) under Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle, 1867-1962 (went into partnership with Emery Walker, with whom he worked in Walker's process engraving business, 1900-1904) |
| Associated language | eng |
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