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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Enseignement du dessin par les solides applicable dans les écoles primaires, professionnelles & supérieures by Claude Sauvageot | Ch. Delagrave, Paris, 1882
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Graphics design into production by Alec Davis | Faber & Faber, 1973
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Printing Technology | Association of Printing Technologists Aug 1961 Vol V No 1
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Electro-Funditor for Intertype Composing Machines | Trade booklet undated 1930s?
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Choose a Good Printer | Monotype Corporation small leaflet | Undated
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How & Why Up-to-Date Printers Use the all-British 'Monotype' Corporation leaflet
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Caxton in focus. The beginning of printing in England by Lotte Hellinga | The British Library, 1982
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The Printing Trade. Reprinted from Artificiana | Peter Cain | The Hayloft Press, 1994 | Numbered, limited edition
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Catalogue of Works on Practical Printing by R.A. Peddie | St Bride Foundation, 1911
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The Old Printer and the Modern Press by Charles Knight | 1854 first edition
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Lithographic Prints from Stone and Plate by Manly Banister | Littlefield, Adams & Co, 1974
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Browns Index to photocomposition, typography | written and compiled by Bruce Brown edited by Stanley Greenwood | Greenwood Publishing, 1983
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Lithography 1800-1850. The techniques of drawing on stone in England and France and their application in works of topography by Michael Twyman | Oxford University Press, 1970
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Commercial Phototypesetting in the United Kingdom by L.W. Wallis 1982
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Commercial Engraving and Printing by Charles W. Hackleman, 1921
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The Monotype Recorder, Spring 1937 issue | Monotype Corporation | Black Letter
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Wynkyn de Worde Society 29 September 1960 lunch/keepsake | guest speaker Beatrice Warde
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Colour and Autolithography in the 20th Century | Manchester Metropolitan University, 2006
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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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