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Sydney Cockerell

Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (1867-1962) was an English museum curator and collector. He acted as private secretary to William Morris, becoming a major collector of Kelmscott Press book. From 1908 to 1937 he was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England.

Ptolemy was designed in Chelsea by St John Hornby, Sidney Cockerell and Emery Walker, and was cut in 18 pt by Edward Prince for Cervantes's Don Quixote, which was published by the Ashendene Press in 1927. The type used until 1935 was a revival of Lienhart Holle's cut for Ptolemaeus's Cosmographia printed in 1482 in Ulm. Ptolemy in turn was digitally revived in 2019 by Alexis Faudot and Rafael Ribas in 2019.

The Subiaco type (1902) used by the Ashendene Press was designed by Sir Emery Walker and S. C. Cockerell based on the first roman used in Italy for printing, developed around 1464 at Subiaco by Conrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz. The Subiaco type is now owned by Cambridge University Press. Its punches were cut by E.P. Prince. It is a humanist typeface with blackletter tendencies.

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