Design.

Jeffery & Company. Paper Stainers

2 lengths of decorative embossed leather textured paper, one length [920 x 560mm] with a vine leaf design interspersed with the head and wings of a wyvern, original company label pasted to the rear, the second length decorated with peacocks and cherubs on a ‘fountain-like' feature, brown background, slightly rubbed at edges, [c. 1875]

*** Metford Warner founded the company in 1836 at 64 Essex Road in London, England, and was owned by him from 1864 to 1896.

It produced papers based on designs by William Morris as early as 1864, and in 1871, under Warner's direction, it began printing papers by designers such as Walter Crane, Lewis F. Day, Bruce J.Talbert, and C.F.A. Voysey.