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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From Script to Print. An Introduction to Medieval Vernacular Literature by H.J. Chaytor | W. Heffer & Sons, 1950, second impression
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Keepsake/menu for Special IPEX Luncheon Meeting at Stationers’ Hall on 25 July 1963 by kind permission of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers | Wynkyn de Worde Society | Stanley Morison
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The Technique of Prints and Art Reproduction Processes by Jan Poortenaar | John Lane The Bodley Head, 1933
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The Printing Industry – trade journal | Volume Seventeen, Number 7 | July 1936
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Towards Today's Book: Progress in 19th Century Britain | Arthur Chick, 1997
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Famous Printers' Marks: folder for the series of stamps | W.P. Griffiths & Sons
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Typographical Technical Queries and Answers | Typographical Technical Publishing Co. 1901
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Going Into Print by Arthur Thornley | Armstrong-Thornley, 1968
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A History of English Lotteries. Now for the first time written John Ashton | Leadenhall Press, 1893
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Sixty Years of Co-operative Printing. A Diamond Jubilee Survey of the Co-operative Printing Society Limited by T.W. Mercer, 1930
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A note on the art of mezzotint and mezzotint printing in colours by H.C. Dickens, London | Stephen T. Green, London, undated
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Printing Reproduction Pocket Pal. First UK edition edited by Leslie H. May | Advertising Agency Production Association, undated
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Ludlow Model M – fold-out leaflet | Ludlow Typograph Company, Chicago, undated
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Compositor's Work in Printing H.W. Larken | Staples Printers Ltd, 1969 third revised edition
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Leaflet The myth of the one-man machine. Monotype Monophoto | Peter Kneebone illustrations, undated
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The Development of the Printing Press by James Moran | Wynkyn de Worde Society, 1971
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The printer's terms. Technical terms of the printing industry by Rudolf Hostettler | Zollikofer & Co AG, 1969, fifth revised edition
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Silk screen Stenciling as a Fine Art by J. I. Biegeleisen and Max Arthur Cohn | McGraw-Hill Book Co, New York and London, 1942
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Rowley Atterbury and the Westerham Press 1920-2011 | University of Reading, 2011
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Getting to Know the Modern Intertype Harris Composition Systems booklet, undated
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Victorian Book Design & Colour Printing by Ruari McLean | Faber & Faber, 1963
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Gutenberg and the Impact of Printing by Stephen Füssel | Ashgate, 2005 edition
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Monotype Corporation Super Caster fold out poster / broadsheet, undated
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Black Inks by Coates | A Specimen Book of Fine Printing Inks, 1950s?
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Leaflet History and Development of the Alphabet Brighton College of Art Printing Dept, undated
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History and Development of Typewriters by G. Tilghman Richards | Science Museum HMSO 1964
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Printers and Printing in Glasgow 1830–1890 by Andrew Bird, 1890
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Printing Review No 37, Winter 1956/7 | Printing in the Netherlands | Charles Rosner
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The Way of the Sun: Story of Sun Engraving & Sun Printers | Greenhill, Reynolds
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Printer's Progress 1851–1951 by Charles Rosner | Sylvan Press, 1951
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Type Faces in use at The Curwen Press | Type specimen brochure 1930s/40s?
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Type Faces in use at The Curwen Press | 1951 Type specimen brochure
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Type Faces in use at the Curwen Press | 1954 type specimen booklet
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See Dick Print by Gilbert Paper, Menasha, Wisconsin | Wire-bound book, 1993
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Robert Estienne, Royal Printer. An Historical Study by Elizabeth Armstrong | Cambridge University Press, 1954 - bookplate 'From the Library of the University Printer'
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Hondred jaren lettergieterij in Amsterdam by Dr G.W. Ovink | Amsterdam, 1951
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