Useful links on the Internet about
the Arts and Crafts Movement

BBC Radio 4 Front Row programme about Emery Walker's house
  On January 28, 2005, the BBC Radio 4 arts programme 'Front Row' featured a 12-minute item on 7 Hammersmith Terrace, its opening to the public and its future, with contributions from the curator, Aileen Reid, and the chairman of the Emery Walker Trustees, Martin Williams. You can hear the programme by clicking on this link, kindly supplied by the BBC.
The item on Hammersmith Terrace starts at 11:20 on the timer:
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/frontrow_20050128.shtml

www.courtbarn.org.uk
This exciting new museum in Chipping Campden celebrates the work of the Costwolds Arts and Crafts makers, including many who were friends of Emery Walker and whose work can be found at 7 Hammermsith Terrace, such as Katharine Adams, F.L. Griggs and E.H. New.

www.artsandcraftsmuseum.org.uk
A site dedicated to the Arts and Crafts Movement, with much useful information, further links and noticeboard, hosted by Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, home of the Emery Walker Library

www.bookhad.ac.uk
A collaborative project between five British academic institutions offering extensive information on the history of the book and a searchable database of the institutions' collections.

www.morrissociety.org
The website of the worldwide William Morris Society: has copious information about the Society's events as well as more general information on Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement, and related events; and more useful Arts and Crafts links and extremely extensive links to hundreds of sites on the Arts and Crafts Movement, Fine Printing and Book Arts, Morris-related products and services, and general Victorian sites, although with an American bias as it is hosted by the US Morris Society.

www.myfonts.com
Commercial font site, but with much useful information and history on all aspects of type design and printing, including Emery Walker and William Morris.

www.stbride.org
The website of the St Bride Printing Library in London, which Emery Walker helped to found: contains an unrivalled collection and library on the history of printing, including material by and about Walker.

www.victorianweb.org
Extensive and well-organised site on all aspects of Victorian history, including the Arts and Crafts movement, with numerous links and illustrations.

www.sal.org.uk The society of Antiquaries of London

www.vam.ac.uk The Victoria and Albert Museum

www.british-museum.ac.uk The British Museum

www.artworkersguild.org The Art Workers Guild

www.spab.org.uk The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings

www.victoriansociety.org.uk The Victorian Society

www.cheltenhammuseum.org.uk Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery

www.kelmscottmanor.co.uk Kelmscott Manor

www.lbwf.gov.uk/wmg The William Morris Gallery


Further Reading on Emery Walker

Peter Corley, 'Bindings in the Emery Walker Library', Bookbinder, 11 (1997)

John Dreyfus, Italic Quartet: A Record of the Collaboration between Harry Kessler, Edward Johnston, Emery Walker and Edward Prince in Making The Cranach Press Italic (1966)

John Dreyfus (ed), Typographical Partnership: Ten Letters Between Bruce Rogers and Emery Walker, 1907-31 (1971)

John Dreyfus, 'Emery Walker's 1888 lecture on "Letterpress Printing": A Reconstruction and a Reconsideration', Craft History, 1 (1988), 115-30

Joseph Dunlap, 'Emery Walker, Oscar Wilde and May Morris; Emery Walker and "Letterpress Printing"', Printing History: The Journal of the American Printing History Association, 10/2 (1988)

Colin Franklin, Emery Walker: Some Light on his Theories of Printing and on His Relations with William Morris and Cobden-Sanderson (1973)

Colin Franklin, Triple Crown: Kelmscott, Doves and Ashendene (1977)

Colin Franklin (ed), Doves Press: The Start of a Worry (1983)

Mary Greensted, 'Emery Walker: Printer, Artist and "Universal Samaritan"', in Mary Greensted and Sophia Wilson (eds), Originality and Initiative: The Arts and Crafts Archives at Cheltenham (2003)

Dorothy Harrop, Sir Emery Walker 1851-1933 (1986)

W.S. Peterson, 'The Library of Emery Walker', Matrix, 12 (1992)

Norman H. Strouse and John Dreyfus, C-S The Master Craftsman: An Account of the Work of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson by Norman H. Strouse; Cobden-Sanderson's Partnership with Emery Walker by John Dreyfus (1969)

Robin Tanner (ed), Turn of the Century: Extracts from the Diaries of Dorothy Walker (nd c. 1984)

Marianne Tidcombe, The Doves Press (2003)

There is also a useful entry on Emery Walker, written by his friend and business partner Sydney Cockerell, in the Dictionary of National Biography, which will be revised when the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is published in 2004.

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