Hammersmith Bridge from where T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, friend of Morris, proprietor of Dove's Press and great bookbinder and eccentric dumped his trays of type to prevent them from getting into the hands of former partner Emery Walker.
London October 2011
A pilgrimage to Hammersmith and the hub of "Morrisland". Morris's former home is now the site of The William Morris Society.
born 1951 in Edmonton AB. grew up in Windsor ON, MA from U of Windsor in Romance Linguistics, Studied bookbinding with Beatrice Stock, Seamas McClafferty and Betsy Palmer Eldridge in Toronto. Binding since age 11 when I rebound my Bantam paperback copies of all the Horatio Hornblower novels in some blue raincoat fabric that my sister had left over from a Home Ec. project. I still have them and they keep me humble. Binding professionally since 1980.