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].
James Beattie
The minstrel / by James Beattie ; with thirty-three designs by Birket Foster ; engraved by the brothers Dalziel - London ; New York: 1858
07/4255
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The courtship of Miles Standish, and other poems / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; with twenty-five illustrations by John Gilbert, engraved by the Dalziel Brothers - London: 1859
11/108
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs, drawn by John Gilbert, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel - London: 1856
10/3058
Thomas Moore
Lalla Rookh : an oriental romance / by Thomas Moore ; with sixty-nine illustrations from original drawings by John Tenniel ; engraved on wood by the Bothers Dalziel ; and five ornamental pages of Persian design by T. Sulman, Jun. ; engraved on wood by H. N. Woods - London: 1861
15/3017