William Savage (printer)

Born in 1770 at Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire, he was the younger son of James Savage, a clockmaker.

In 1807 he was commissioned to print Edward Forster's British Gallery of Engravings, It made his reputation as printer.

In recognition of his services, the Society for the Encouragement of Arts awarded him their large medal and a sum of money "for his imitations of drawings, printed from engravings on wood, with inks of his own preparing".

[1] Savage published Dictionary of the Art of Printing (London, 1840–1, in 16 numbers); it drew on the work of Joseph Moxon.

[2] He was also the author of:[1] Savage was a draughtsman, and there are engravings from drawings by him in the section of John Britton's Beauties of England and Wales dealing with Yorkshire.