Comments on: The Mystery Of Arthur Cousins’ Printers https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/09/01/the-mystery-of-arthur-cousins-printers/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: oliver branston https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/09/01/the-mystery-of-arthur-cousins-printers/#comment-1949165 Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:38:10 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192924#comment-1949165 Hello Melanie,

That would be great. Please email me on olibranston@gmail.com

Thanks.

Oliver.

]]> By: Melanie R. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/09/01/the-mystery-of-arthur-cousins-printers/#comment-1913990 Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:34:24 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192924#comment-1913990 Hello. This is a message for Oliver Branston and Neil Rogers. My grandfather was a photographer and was a friend of Arthur cousins’, we have several drawings by him including some he did of my grandparents and I also have a carving. I’d like to get in touch. My grandpa was A.C.K (Jock )Ware.

]]> By: Neil Rogers https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/09/01/the-mystery-of-arthur-cousins-printers/#comment-1615566 Sun, 25 Aug 2024 20:39:11 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192924#comment-1615566 Hello, I’m Oliver Branston’s cousin (post 22/11/2023), also a Great Grandson of Arthur and I too have some of his artwork.

His full name was Arthur Henry Cousins, he was a younger brother of the artist Ernest Wallcousins. Speaking to my Aunt, she remembers going into the room where he would work on this piece, and that it went from the floor to the ceiling.

This is piece holds a special place in our family as all four of his grandchildren (my mother, my aunt and my 2 uncles) at some point during the creation of the sculpture all did a little piece of the carving under Arthur’s guidance.

Like Oliver I too would be grateful for any other information on him.

Thank you

Neil

]]> By: oliver branston https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/09/01/the-mystery-of-arthur-cousins-printers/#comment-1528720 Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:12:23 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192924#comment-1528720 Arthur Cousins was my great grandfather and i have lots of his artwork and carvings, i actually have a few photos of him carving this wonderful piece of work. If anybody has any other information on him please get in touch. Oliver Arthur

]]> By: Mike https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/09/01/the-mystery-of-arthur-cousins-printers/#comment-1519427 Wed, 23 Aug 2023 09:25:48 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192924#comment-1519427 Arthur George Cousins, publisher, editor and banker and a Lt-Col, was my paternal grandmother half brother. Any information on this family tree please contact me. Mike.

]]> By: Simon Loxley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/09/01/the-mystery-of-arthur-cousins-printers/#comment-1482294 Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:21:20 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192924#comment-1482294 I’m going to guess that the man between Walker and Gill might be intended to be Stanley Morison, without glasses of course, and I think with his hair parted on the wrong side. Maybe not a very convincing portrait, but if you were looking at a British pantheon created at this time, he would be a likely inclusion, on the typography side rather than printing per se.

]]> By: Juliet Wood https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/09/01/the-mystery-of-arthur-cousins-printers/#comment-1480489 Sat, 03 Sep 2022 09:49:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192924#comment-1480489 I agree with Caroline Murray.
Pretty sure that the chap with the moustache standing behind Morris is Emery Walker – of the Kelmscott Press & Doves press.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emery_Walker

Eric Gill I think on the far right. He made a self-portrait of himself in that folded (paper?) hat.

]]> By: William, New York https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/09/01/the-mystery-of-arthur-cousins-printers/#comment-1480286 Fri, 02 Sep 2022 03:21:28 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192924#comment-1480286 I found this architectural embellishment attributed to Arthur Cousins. Mercury House, London. Not much else.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/378020962473885721/

]]> By: Alison Felstead https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/09/01/the-mystery-of-arthur-cousins-printers/#comment-1480244 Thu, 01 Sep 2022 21:01:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192924#comment-1480244 Fascinating! I’ve forwarded this post to my partner who is a member of the Printing Historical Society, and he has shared it with the PHS email discussion list.

]]> By: Bill https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/09/01/the-mystery-of-arthur-cousins-printers/#comment-1480221 Thu, 01 Sep 2022 17:34:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192924#comment-1480221 Aldus Manutius? Venetian printer/scholar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldus_Manutius

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