- Also known as
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Rock & Co
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primary name: Rock & Co
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other name: De La Rue, Cornish & Rock
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other name: Rock Brothers & Payne
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other name: Rock, William Frederick
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other name: W & H Rock
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other name: William & Henry Rock
- Details
- organisation; publisher/printer; British; Male
- Other dates
- 1802-1890
- Address
- 1820s Queen Street, Finsbury Square, London
109 Goswell Street, London
1833-38, Queen Street, Cheapside, London
1838-95, 11 Walbrook, London
London, No. 202
- Biography
- London print and playing-card publisher, specialising in topographical prints on pictorial note paper; produced over 7000 topographical prints which were numbered on the plate. William Frederick Rock (1802-90), son of William Henry Rock of Barnstaple, Devon; began his career working in a bank, in the 1820's lodging with Thomas De La Rue in whose stationer's business he soon became a partner - "De La Rue, Cornish & Rock"; 1833, set up in business with his brother Henry, their other brother Richard joining them soon after; by 1845 they had been joined by John Payne (as Rock Brothers & Payne) who married their sister, Prudence in 1851 (she and another sister, Ann, ran a starionery shop in Greenwich). William Rock retired in 1883, having outlived his partners, and the extremely successful firm was taken over by John Dickinson who retained the business name.
Trade card in Heal Collection (Heal,111.51) advertises "De La Rue, Cornish & Rock, Manufacturers of Embossed and London Drawing Boards, Cards with Ornamental Coloured Borders, Superfine German Porcelain Paper, and Porcelain Tablets and Cards, With Gold and Silver Borders, Queen Street, Finsbury Square, London."
- Bibliography
- Ralph Hyde, 'A year for celebrating W F Rock', Print Quarterly, XIX 2002, pp.341-52. Schreiber English 130
