Paul Cornwall-Jones (1937 - 2018)

RA Collection: People and Organisations

Print publisher, founded Editions Alecto in Cambridge (with Michael Deakin) in 1960 and then, when Editions Alecto moved to London in 1962, four new directors were added, including Joe Studholme; in 1967 Cornwall-Jones left Editions Alecto and established Petersburg Press, London in 1968, which became a leading print publisher of the 1970s and 1980s for contemporary European and American artists; an office in New York opened in 1972 with facilities for printmaking.