Collection: Printing and Print Techniques
This fascinating collection of vintage books and journals explores the world of printing – its historical origins and cultural impact, along with the technological shifts that have shaped the industry, and the world.
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The Monotype Recorder Vol XLII No. 1 Spring 1960 reprint 1963 A grammar of type ornament and a new inscription for the printing school
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The Monotype Recorder Vol 41 No. 2 Spring 1958 | Typography for Hospitality by the British Transport Commission
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The Monotype Recorder Vol 40 No. 4 Winter 1956 | Setting Mathematics by Arthur Phillips
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The Monotype Recorder Vol 42 No. 3 Winter 1962-3 Pitman
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The Monotype Recorder Vol 41 No. 4 1959 | ‘Monotype’ Walbaum
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The Monotype Recorder Vol XXXIX No. 3 Spring 1951 post-war improvements
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The Monotype Recorder, Vol. XL No. 1 Spring 1953 'Machines in the Making'
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Modern Engraving Co brochure. Modern Times, 1940, Vol. 1 Spring Issue
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'Monotype' type study leaflets for students: Composition rules, Spacing, 'Monotype' composing machines folder + four leaflets
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I.M. Imprimit. The private press of Ian Mortimer | Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, 1977
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Small keepsake — Wynkyn de Worde Society: 'Thoughts for Printers’ — 4 Oct 1981 Eric Gill quote
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Brochure for German paper-maker. Feldmühlewinke No. 11 1930s
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Offprint: The Fifty-first Chapter of Genesis. A Parable Against Persecution | Friends of Philip & Fanny Duschnes Dec 1958
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Apropos the Unicorn by Joseph Thorp | The Curwen Press c.1915
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Perverse Proverbs 1 to 5. One of fifty copies for the Basilisk Bookshop 1977/8
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Leaflet for The Sun Engraving Co Ltd undated, c. 1927
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Lunch menu for The Wynkyn de Worde Society March 1981
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Harold Spedding Curwen. Two appreciations. Privately printed at The Curwen Press, 1950
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A catalogue of a selection of books printed at The Curwen Press Plaistow London on view at E. Weyhe Inc 794 Lexington Avenue, New York | introduction by Hamish Miles
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Opportunities by Herbert Simon Curwen Press | Birmingham School of Printing 1951
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Charles Earl Stanhope and the Oxford University Press Horace Hart | notes by James Mosley
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The Printing of Books by Holbrook Jackson | Cassell, 2nd edition 1947
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Printing and the Mind of Man | Catalogue of the exhibitions at The British Museum and Earls Court, London 16-27 July 1963
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Wood Engraving Here and Now | 75th anniversary exhibition of The Society of Wood Engravers 1996
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Design in Business Printing by Herbert Spencer | Sylvan Press, London, 1952
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The Gregynog Press & Gwasg Gregynog | Museum of Modern Art, Wales, 2002
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An approach to print. A basic guide to the printing processes Roy Brewer 1971
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A Printmaker’s Handbook edited by Silvie Turner | Estamp, 1989
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Tillotsons 1850-1950 by Frank Singleton | limited edition, 1950
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Wood engraving wood engravers Hiram Campbell Merrill | Society of Printers Boston limited edition, previously owned by Simon Brett
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Engravers A Handbook for the Nineties compiled for the Society of Wood Engravers by Simon Brett | Silent Books, 1987
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Printing with wood blocks, stencils & engravings Alan & Gill Bridgewater | David & Charles, 1983
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British Wood Engraving of the 20th century Albert Garrett | Scolar Press, 1980 bookplate for Simon Brett
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The art of wood engraving & relief engraving by Barry Moser | David R. Godine 2006
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The point of the graver by Wesley W. Bates | The Porcupine’s Quill, 1994 second printing
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Modern Woodcuts and Lithographs by British and French artists | special edition of The Studio 1919
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