Welcome
This site is the partner to my British Letterpress site, and uses 100 British letterpress-related objects to tell the story of letterpress printing in the UK. Not everything is specific to letterpress, and not everything will be in the UK, but these diversions are needed to tell the whole story!
A new object will be posted around every fortnight, and you’re welcome to get in touch with corrections, additions, or suggestions for objects to showcase.
Benjamin Brundell
Latest Object
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Incline Press
Oldham-based brilliant makers of letterpress books…and much more.
Recent Objects
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Curwen Press
The exceptional letterpress printing works that set the standard for jobbing printing.
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DeLittle
The York-based king of UK woodletter
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Day Glo Ink
The principle behind Day Glo ink is both simple and mind-blowing. When we see a colour on a page, this is the natural light being transformed and reflected back off the colour to our eyes. Day Glo pigments not only reflect this light back, but the also pigments convert some of the unseen light —……
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John Bull Set
For many printers, this was the first time they got printed ink on the page, leading to a life-long passion for letterpress.
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Gas Lighting
There’s evidence that gas has been used for lighting including in China in 500BC, with gas transported through bamboo pipes; but here we’re talking about the industrial age. Our hero in this article gets only a footnote mention in the Wikipedia article, hidden under the name of his employer, Sir James Lowther. Mr Carlisle Spedding……
British Letterpress in 100 Objects 