RA Collection: People and Organisations
Process engraver, typographer, in London. In 1886 founded firm Walker and Boutall (afterwards Walker and Cockerell; afterwards Emery Walker Ltd.); in 1888 was a founder of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society; in 1891 founded with W. Morris the Kelmscott Press; in 1900 with T.J. Cobden-Sanderson founded the Doves Press (from which he withdrew in 1909). Knighted in 1930.
Born: 1851
Died: 1933