- Also known as
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Day & Co
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primary name: Day & Co
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other name: Day & Haghe
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other name: Day & Son
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other name: Day and Son
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other name: Day, W J
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other name: Day, William
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other name: Vincent Brooks, Day & Son
- Details
- organisation; publisher/printer; British
- Other dates
- 1824-1913 after
- Address
- 59 Great Queen Street, London (in 1826)
17 Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London (in 1828 - December 1857)
6 Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London (in April 1862)
- Biography
- The main British firm of chromolithographic printers. William Day set up the firm in c.1824. From c.1831 traded as Day & Haghe (L.Haghe being a draughtsman), although there was never a formal partnership; lettering on prints reads "Day & Haghe Lithrs.. to the King, London.". Haghe left to devote himself to watercolour in the 1850s; the firm continued as Day & Son under William Day the younger (1823-1906), also referred to as WJ Day; lettering on prints reads "Lithographers to the Queen". WJ Day experienced financial difficulties around 1861 related to his printing of banknotes for Louis Kossuth, who was reportedly planning a revolution against the King of Hungary, and was taken to court; he was forced from the firm c. 1865, it failed in 1867 and was later amalgamated with Vincent Brooks; it became official printer to the Senefelder Club in 1913, when head printers James Peters and Thomas Griffits. WJ Day set up as a fine art printer and publisher (see 'The Bookseller', 31st December 1866), and went on to found and edit the journal 'The Chromolithograph' from 1867 until it was incorporated with another journal c. 1870 (see 'The Bookseller', 29th June 1867); he was also involved with the Extraordinary Art Union (q.v.) from 1867; declared bankrupt February 1868 (see 'The Economist', 29th February). WJ Day advertised from his address at 20 Cockspur Street, and had a lithographic works at Upper Ogle Street, Marylebone, which passed to Zorn & Co (q.v.) in 1868.
- Bibliography
- DNB
Wakeman & Bridson, Guide to XIXc colour printers, pp.30ff
Michael Twyman, 'A Directory of London Lithographic Printers 1800-1850', London 1976 pp.29-30
C.T. Courtney-Lewis, 'The story of picture printing in England during the nineteenth century' (London, 1928)
Kathy Kajander Tidman, 'Art for the Victorian Household' (online publication)
Information supplied by Martin and Tara Sinnott (via email)
