William Harry Rogers: Victorian Book Designer and Star of the Great Exhibition

The year 2023 sees the 150th anniversary of the death of William Harry Rogers. Rogers was one of the fi nest artist—designers of the Victorian period in Britain, someone to be considered in the same company as Pugin, William Burges, Owen Jones and Christopher Dresser. His designs won several prize medals at the Great Exhibition of 1851, the event which provides a ubiquitous reference point for cultural histories of the nineteenth century. He subsequently specialised in designing the appeara...