1991.1016.47.7

A.W. Pollard, Sydney Cockerell (designer)

A letter from Alfred W. Pollard to Emery Walker dated 09 May (no year but from context 1905 ) inside which is enclosed a letter from Sydney Cockerell to Pollard dated 7th May 1905. The envelope (1991.1016.47.7.a) is also present. Found inserted in the book, Oresteia by Aeschylus when acquired by the museum, shelf D11. Part of the Emery Walker Library.

London

1905-05-07 - 1905-05-07 1905-05-09 - 1905-05-09

Arts & Crafts, 20th century

Letter to Emery Walker from Alfred W Pollard, British Museum dated May 9th. No year but a letter from S C Cockerell to Pollard dated May 7 1905 is enclosed within. Both were in one envelope Envelope reads: Emery Walker Esq 16 Clifford’s Inn Fleet Sreet E.C. British Museum May 9th Dear Walker, I think Frowde’s[i] letter quite satisfactory and that Oxonii e typographeo academico typis Proctorianis is a good enough imprint. Cockerell[ii] suggests In Officina Academica Universitatis, but I don’t think that Officina can be used for a printing office without the name of a printer to particularize it. Ex [overwritten with] In Officina Academica Universitatis would only mean from the University workshop and who is to know what kind of a workshop? In the 17th century a very common Cambridge imprint was Cantabrigiæ ex cele Academiæ celebe[ssimæ] & typographeo, and Oxonii e typographeo academico is a little better than this. I suppose that you will ask Frowde what text he means to follow. Faithfully yr Alfred W Pollard[iii] [Footnotes: [i]Possibly Henry Frowde, a senior figure within the Oxford University Press until his retirement in 1913. [ii] Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867 – 1962), collector and curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge from 1908 to 1937. [iii] Alfred William Pollard (1859 – 1944), bibliographer, who joined the British Museum in 1883. In 1909 he became Assistant Keeper and in 1919 Keeper. CAW] Letter to Alfred W Pollard from SCC (S C Cockerell), 29, Friars’ Stile Road, Richmond Hill dated May 7 1905 enclosed within one from Pollard to Emery Walker dated 9th May 29, Friars’ Stile Road, Richmond Hill, Surrey. May 7 1905 Dear Pollard[i] Odyssey I enclose Frowde[ii] to Walker & Walker to me. What should the [colophm] be? ‘In officina universitatis’ sound to me like what the old printers would have put. I suppose they can be trusted to do the reading at Oxford in which case it will not be necessary to trouble Kenyon Yours always SCC[iii] [Footnotes: [i] Alfred William Pollard (1859 – 1944), bibliographer, who joined the British Museum in 1883. In 1909 he became Assistant Keeper and in 1919 Keeper. [ii] Possibly Henry Frowde, a senior figure within the Oxford University Press until his retirement in 1913 [iii] Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867 – 1962), collector and curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge from 1908 to 1937. CAW]