UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The Corresponence of James McNeil Whistler

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Emery Walker, 1851-1933

Nationality: English
Date of Birth: 1851.04.02
Place of Birth: Paddington, London
Date of Death: 1933.07.22
Place of Death:

Identity:

Emery Walker was a process engraver and typographical expert. At the time of the 1881 census he was living with his Irish wife, Mary Grace Walker at 3 Hammersmith Terrace. He is mentioned in JW's correspondence in the late 1880s.

Life:

He worked with William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. In 1900 he founded the Doves Press with T. J. Cobden-Sanderson; he left the press in 1905. Subsequently he worked with Harry Graf Kessler on the type for the Cranach Press.

Bibliography:

UK census 1881 at http://www.familysearch.org (accessed 2004.6); Harrop, Dorothy A., Sir Emery Walker, London, 1986; Obituary, (privately printed), 1933 (in British Library).