Morison Room papers 1907-1973

Meynell, Francis Meredith Wilfrid, 1891-1975

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Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell was born on May 12, 1891 in London, England to Wilfrid and Alice (Thompson) Meynell, the youngest of seven surviving children. Francis Thompson was Francis Meynell's godfather. Meynell attended Trinity College, Dublin, from 1908 until 1910 or 1911. He married three times: Hilda Saxe, 1914 (one daughter, Cynthia); Vera Mendel, 1925 (one son, Benedict); and Alix Hester Marie Kilroy, 1946 (no children). Francis Meynell was a typographer, book designer, and pub...

Gill, Eric, 1882-1940

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English sculptor and engraver. Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, best known as Eric Gill, was born in Brighton, Sussex on February 22, 1882 to minister Arthur Tidman Gill and light-opera singer (Cicely) Rose King. They moved to Chichester in 1897, where Gill studied at the Chichester Technical and Art School (1897-1900). In 1900, Gill moved to London to study architecture under William Douglas Caröe, taking classes in practical masonry at Westminster Institute and in lettering and illumination at the Ce...

Curwen press

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Limited editions club

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Founded in 1929 by George Macy, the Limited Editions Club published illustrated fine-press books for subscribers, in editions of 1500. Their publications tended to be classic titles, and featured the work of leadings illustrators and designers. After Macy's death in 1956, the firm remained family owned until 1970. It changed hands several times until it was sold in 1979 to its current owner, the investor Sidney Shiff. Since that time, the Limited Editions Club has become best known for lavish ar...

Morison, Stanley, 1889-1967

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English typographer, author, and lecturer. From the description of Letter, 1958. (Ohio University). WorldCat record id: 13048845 British printer, typographer and writer. From the description of Letter, 1939. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78489119 English typographer and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to Holbrook Jackson, 1923 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270613086 ...

Nonesuch Press.

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Warde, Beatrice

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English writer on typography. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [New York], to F.B. Adams, Jr., 1969 Jan. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270659511 Epithet: Mrs née Becker typographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x0001e7 ...

Simon, Oliver, 1895-1956

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Simon was the editor of Signature, a publication on typography and graphic arts published between 1935 and 1954 in London. He was long associated with the Curwen Press and wrote about printing and typography. From the description of [Letter] 1954 Mar. 25, 40 Downshire Hill, Hampstead, N.W. [to] Arnold / Oliver Simon. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 437429816 ...

Cambridge university press

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Times (London, England).

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Stanley Arthur Morison

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Stanley Arthur Morison (1889-1967), typographer, was born at Wanstead, Essex, on 6 May 1889. He attended Owen's School, Islington, leaving at the age of fourteen, and was a clerk at the London City Mission, 1905-1912, and assistant at the Imprint, 1913-1914. He joined the Roman Catholic publishers Burns & Oates in 1914, and was a typographer at the Cloister Press, 1921-1922. Thereafter, Morison worked a freelance consultant. He was a part-time consultant for the Monotype Corpora...

Fournier, Pierre Simon, 1712-1768

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Steinberg, S.H. (Sigfrid Henry), 1899-1969

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Fitzwilliam Museum

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Fitzwilliam Museum, founded in 1816 with a bequest to the University of Cambridge of the library and art collection of Richard, VII Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion, along with funds to house them. The museum building, or the Founder's Building, opened to the public in 1848....

Great Britain and Northern Ireland Her Majesty's Stationery Office

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