RA Collection: People and Organisations
Douglas Bennett Cockerell (1870 – 1945) was a British bookbinder and author. In 1897 he opened his own bindery at 6 Denmark Street, off Charing Cross Road in London. His son, Sydney "Sandy" Morris Cockerell carried on the business after Cockerell’s death in 1945, along with Roger Powell, who had worked there from 1935 to 1947. The bindery closed down in 1987, after Sandy's death