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…… Continue reading Gas Lighting
Category: Craft
John Dunlap and the Declaration of Independence
The Ulster printer that played a pivotal role in the United States Declaration of Independence.
Bell
An especially English face that rested in obscurity for 144 years.
Composing Stick
One of the smallest but most important tools in a letterpress printing works
Wayzgoose or Waygoose
Which other craft has it’s own word for a gathering? Come along and find out about the ‘wayzgoose’
Stationers’ Company
The one-time all-powerful Guild protecting the ‘mystery’ of printing in London
Bembo
Monotype’s sixteenth century-inspired old-style face that was massively popular.
The Oxford Gazette
Britain’s ‘Journal of Record’ first published in Oxford, while Charles II fled the plague in London.
Britannia Press
Leeds’ all-iron hand press, popular in the North of England.
Miller and Richard
Miller and Richard were a significant foundry, based in Edinburgh between 1809 and 1952.
British Letterpress in 100 Objects 