Samuel Cowell
Appearance
Samuel Harrison Cowell (24 May 1801, Ipswich-1875) was a Suffolk businessman who pioneered anastatic lithography in Ipswich.[1] Cowell issued leaflets at the Great Exhibition in 1851 to advertise the new technology.[2]
His son, William Samuel Cowell, joined the family printing business, inheriting it in 1875. In 1900 he turned the business into W. S. Cowell Ltd.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Copsey, Tony (2011). The Ipswich Book Trades : booksellers, bookbinders, engravers, librarians, music sellers, newsagents, papermakers, printers, publishers, stationers at Ipswich until 1900 : a biographical dictionary. Ipswich [England]: Distributed by Claude Cox. ISBN 978-0952297055.
- ^ Law, Edward J. (2006). "Use of the Anastatic Printing Process in Ireland". The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 136: 30–38. ISSN 0035-9106. JSTOR 25509125. Retrieved 15 November 2022.