Hooper, William Harcourt
Biography
William Harcourt Hooper, described by St. John Hornby as a very fine craftsman and almost the last of the old school of wood-engravers, worked in the 1850s for the Illustrated News and for such artists as Fred Walker, Du Maurier, Leech and Millais. From 1891 to 1896 he was engaged by the Kelmscott Press and subsequently by the Ashendene and Essex House Presses, where his role was to produce engravings of artists' illustrations, in particular those by Burne-Jones, C.M. Gere and C.R. Ashbee. He worked on the Kelmscott Chaucer, the Essex House Psalter and Ashendene's Mazetto Scelto dei Fioretti di San Francesco, Dante and the Morte d'Arthur.
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William Harcourt Hooper Papers
Wood engraver who worked for the Kelmscott Press, the Ashendene Press, and the Essex House Press. Includes proofs of wood engravings, correspondence, and ephemera.