RA Collection: People and Organisations
Richard Clay I (1789-1877), printer, born in Cambridge, England. He apprenticed to Richard Watts, then University Printer John Smith at the Pitt Press. He began his own business with various partners in 1817 at No. 9 Devonshire Street, Bishops-gate. The partnership of Samuel Burton, Richard Clay and Samuel Smith dissolved 1822. The partnership of Samuel Burton, Richard Clay, and Henry Batty dissolved in 1824. He then was “House of Richard Clay & Co. Ltd” at Devonshire, Bishops-gate. He moved to the Bread Street Hill address about 1830.
His son, Charles John Clay (1827-1905), Trinity College, set up in Cambridge as University Printer and Partner, C. J. Clay and Son Cambridge University Press. Another son, Richard Clay II (1839-1890), was apprenticed to brother Charles.
Joseph Taylor became a partner in 1857. And it became R. Clay, Sons and Taylor. The Taylor partnership ceased in 1885. [Source: The Bookbinder, Vol. 4, London: Raithby, Lawernce and Co. LTD., 1891].
Herman Melville
Moby Dick, or, The whale - London: 1974
15/4706
Moira O'Neill
The Elf-Errant by Moira O'Neill; illustrated by W. E. F. Britten. - New York; London: 1895
10/4278
Samuel Redgrave
A dictionary of artists of the English School: painters, sculptors, architects, engravers and ornamentists: with notices of their lives and works / by Samuel Redgrave - London: 1878
18/38
S.G. Hulme Beaman
Aladdin / retold and illustrated by S.G. Hulme Beaman - London: [1924]
15/893