William F. Matthews

He trained at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London before apprenticing at the bindery of W. T. Morrell & Co. Matthews won a gold medal at the Paris exhibition of 1925 and started his own practice in 1926.

He taught at the central school for nearly 50 years during which time his notable pupils included Edgar Mansfield, Roger Powell, and Bernard Middleton.

[2] Matthews studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London where he was trained by Peter McLeish, Noel Rooke, and Graily Hewitt.

[5] Matthews later taught at the central school for nearly 50 years, and trained Anthony Cains, Bryan Maggs, H. J. Desmond Yardley, Edgar Mansfield, Roger Powell, and Bernard Middleton.

[4] In 1970, he bound a copy of Mortimer Wheeler's Alms for Oblivion: An antiquary's scrapbook (1966) in olive-green goat skin with a sun design on the boards bordered by groups of overlapping radiating gilt lines.