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 New Colours of The Conqueror | Wiggins Teape / Associated Weavers Guild | Undated, pPresumed c.1971
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Dictionary of Printing Terms by R. Smith & A. Hunter | The Print Buyer, 1974
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Glossary of Terms in Printing and Allied Technology by R. Krishnamoorthi | Indian Academy of Printing & Graphic Arts, 1989
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Peter Schoeffer of Gernsheim and Mainz by Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt, 1950 | The Printers’ Valhalla. The Printing House of Leo Hart
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Design in Modern Printing. The Year Book of the Design and Industries Association 1927-28 edited by Joseph Thorp | Ernest Benn
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The Typography of Newspaper Advertisements by Francis Meynell | Ernest Benn, 1929
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Printing at Gregynog. Aspects of a Great Private Press by Michael Hutchins. Published on the occasion of the 1976 Gregynog Press exhibition Welsh Arts Council
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The Art and Practice of Printing. Six volume set. General editor William Atkins. Sir Isaac Pitman all published in 1934, except volume 3, published in 1933
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L’affiche en révolution. Musée de la Révolution Francaise, Vizelle, 1998 | Text by Alan Marshall and Thierry Gouttenègre
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Monotype Newsletter 78 | March 1966 | Type Ornament and the Decorative Arts | The Monotype Corporation
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True To Type: Letterpress Printing catalogue | Crafts Council | Colin Banks 1994
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Monotype Alphabet Tracing Sheets – promotional leaflet, The Monotype Corporation
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Victorian Engravings | The Maas Gallery, London, 1999 includes private view invitation and price list
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Letters from Amsterdam. Presented by Typefoundry Amsterdam to members of the tenth International Congress of Master Printers held in the Netherlands in June 1960
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What is a popular print? An essay prompted by the exhibition Tabloid Culture: The Popular Print in England 1500-1850 by Diana Donald | The Whitworth Art Gallery, 2000
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Design For Printing – competition journal | Federation of Master Printers, 1965
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Guildford School of Art | Prospectus 1957–1960 | Surrey County Council booklet
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Electronic Typesetting: a quarter century of technological upheaval by L.W. Wallis | Foreword by A.H. Phillips | The Paradigm Press, 1984
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Monotype Copyfitting Indicator | Rotating calculator, The Monotype Corporation | Undated, 1950s?
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Printed Books. A short introduction to fine typography by T.M. MacRobert | Victoria and Albert Museum. HMSO, 1957
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Computer Peripherals and Typesetting by Arthur Phillips | HMSO, 1968
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A-Series paper standardisation booklet | H Hacker Design Group | Circa 1970?
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Intertype Matrix Handbook | Intertype Limited | Undated
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The Ludlow System – brochure of trade press advertisements | Ludlow Typography Co
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Monotype 96-unit Copyfitting System | Technical reference guide, 1980s?
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The Private Press Today from modern-day Britain | Gordon Russell Design Museum booklet, 2016
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Interludes journal, Spring 1968 issue | Harris-Intertype Limited
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The Monotype Recorder | Volume 42 Number 3, Winter 1962–3 | Easing the adventure into literacy
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The Monotype Recorder | Vol. 26, No. 234 | Jan-Feb 1930 issue
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Monotype Composition Faces | Monotype Corporation booklet | Undated, probably 1960s?
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Do we want to keep our newspapers? Edited by David McKitterick. Kings College London, Office for Humanities Communication Publication 15, 2002
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Bookwork and Imposition by Charles L. Pickering | Pitman Printing Theory and Practice 4, 1949
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The Monotype Recorder Vol XXVI No 217 Jan-Feb 1927 | Antonio Blado Italic
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Monotype Recorder July-August 1924 Vol XXIII, No. 202 | Monotype Corporation
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The Manual of Colours and Dye Wares | J.W. Slater | Crosby Lockwood & Co, London, 1870 | First edition
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Monotype | The make-up & correction of filmset matter preparatory to printing | Handbook from The Monotype Corporation
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