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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Printing To-Day by John C. Tarr | Oxford University Press, 1945
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PM – Journal for Production Managers Vol 1 No 12 | Aug 1935 | Lucina Smith Wakefield
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The Beginnings of Printing in London by H. Thomas, 1928 | Printed as a souvenir of the Lord Mayor’s Show of 1928 in the offices of Lanston Monotype Corporation Ltd | The booklet is believed to have been designed by Stanley Morison
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Short History of English Printing 1476-1898 by Henry R. Plomer 1900
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Auto-lithography: The Technique by Henry Trivick | Faber and Faber, 1960
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A History of European Printing Colin Clair | Academic Press 1976
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Photogravure: Machine and Hand Printed Processes by H. Mills Cartwright | American Photographic Publishing Co, Boston, 1930 - inscribed
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La Gravure Les Procédés - L'Histoire | Jean-E Bersier | La Table Ronde 1948
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How to Select Type Faces especially Intertype [Corporation] Faces booklet, 1935?
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The History of Printing | Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1860s?
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Printing in Czechoslovakia in the Fifteenth Century. Five hundred years | The Association Typographique Internationale, London, 1969
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William Blackstone & the Reform of the Oxford University Press | I.G. Philip | Oxford University Press, 1957
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Line Engraving by Kenneth Steel | The Student's Art Book | Sir Isaac Pitman & Co, 1938
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The Monotype Recorder | July, August, September 1914 No. 149 Vol. 13
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Caxton and his World by N.F. Blake | edited by Eric Partridge and Simeon Potter | The Language Library London House & Maxwell, 1969
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Print for Victory – Book Publishing in England 1939-1945 by Valerie Holman | British Library, 2008
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A History of Graphic Art by James Cleaver | Republished by E P Publishing, 1977
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Better Settings Faster – Odhams Press, London | Ludlow Typesetting Service, 1930/40s?
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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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