Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 1880s
Dimensions:
295 x 250 mm (29.5 x 25 cm)
Object number: P.40
DescriptionType detail from: Polydorus Vergil, Anglicae historiae libri virgini septem.
Printed in Basel by Michael Isingrain, 1556.
This is one of 19 known enlargements made by Emery Walker for William Morris to use as models for his Kelmscott types. Ultimately it wasn’t used for Kelmscott, or any other preparatory designs made by Morris, but Walker believed it to represent the Roman type in perfection.
A note on the back of the enlargement suggests it was presented to George Mansell who taught at London County Council’s Putney School of Art until c.1931 and designed lettering for the University of London.
Another note misattributes the type as ‘Jensen’. However, it is more likely to be a page of type discussed by Emery Walker in a lecture he gave in 1988, in which Walker describes the type as being modelled by Johann Froben about 40 years before it was printed by Michael Isingrain in 1556.
Printed in Basel by Michael Isingrain, 1556.
This is one of 19 known enlargements made by Emery Walker for William Morris to use as models for his Kelmscott types. Ultimately it wasn’t used for Kelmscott, or any other preparatory designs made by Morris, but Walker believed it to represent the Roman type in perfection.
A note on the back of the enlargement suggests it was presented to George Mansell who taught at London County Council’s Putney School of Art until c.1931 and designed lettering for the University of London.
Another note misattributes the type as ‘Jensen’. However, it is more likely to be a page of type discussed by Emery Walker in a lecture he gave in 1988, in which Walker describes the type as being modelled by Johann Froben about 40 years before it was printed by Michael Isingrain in 1556.