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British Letterpress in 100 Objects

British Letterpress in 100 Objects

British, and wider, letterpress icons brought to life

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Printers’ Royal Arms

Royal Arms have always conferred an air of authority on printed items and printers have sought to use this in their work.

Published September 17, 2022
Categorized as 1900s, London, Modern, Object, Other Objects Tagged 1950s, King Charles III, Queen Elizabeth II, Reynolds Stone, Royal Arms, Royal Cipher, Size:Article

Fleet Street Strikes

The mid-1980s newspaper dispute that changed the face of UK newspapers.

Published August 13, 2022
Categorized as 1900s, Firms and Organisations, London, Modern, Object Tagged 1980s, Fleet Street Strikes, Industrial Relations, London, Newspapers, Rupert Murdoch, Size:In Depth, Unions, Wapping

British Printing Society

A great connector of small printers in the UK and beyond since 1944.

Published July 30, 2022
Categorized as 1900s, Commercial, Firms and Organisations, Object, South West Tagged 1940s, Bristol, British Printing Society, ISPA, ISPAnews, Organisation, Size:Post, Small Printer, South West, William Brace

Penrose Annual

The compendium that traced the finest printing and state of the art since 1895

Published July 16, 2022
Categorized as 1800s, Mass Production, Object, Publication, Yorkshire and the Humber Tagged A. W. Penrose, Alan Delafons, Bradford, Bryan Smith, Herbert Spencer, Lund Humphries, Penrose Annual, Process, R. B. Fishenden, Size:Article, William Gamble

Bell

An especially English face that rested in obscurity for 144 years.

Published July 2, 2022
Categorized as 1700s, Craft, London, Object, Types and Casting Tagged 1780s, Bell, British Letter Foundry, London, Richard Austin, Size:Article, Stephenson Blake

Composing Stick

One of the smallest but most important tools in a letterpress printing works

Published June 18, 2022
Categorized as 1500s, Craft, London, Object, Other Objects Tagged Composing Stick, Compositor, Moxon, Size:Article, Tools

Wayzgoose or Waygoose

Which other craft has it’s own word for a gathering? Come along and find out about the ‘wayzgoose’

Published June 4, 2022
Categorized as 1600s, Craft, Object, Other Objects, Yorkshire and the Humber Tagged 1680s, Size:Summary, Social, Waygoose, Wayzgoose

Photopolymer

Photopolymer Plate

The clever invention, just too late to make a difference to letterpress’ demise, but that keeps some printers happy today

Published May 28, 2022
Categorized as 1900s, Modern, Object, Overseas, Types and Casting Tagged 1950s, Germany, Photopolymer, Size:Article

Stationers’ Company

The one-time all-powerful Guild protecting the ‘mystery’ of printing in London

Published May 14, 2022
Categorized as 1500s, Craft, Era, London, Object, Other Objects Tagged 1550s, London, Size:Article, Stationers Company

Bembo

"Bembo typeface" by Speckled Jim is marked with CC BY-NC 2.0.

Monotype’s sixteenth century-inspired old-style face that was massively popular.

Published April 30, 2022
Categorized as 1900s, Craft, Object, South East, Types and Casting Tagged 1920s, Bembo, Monotype, Size:Post, Typeface

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Original texts, photographs and graphics, © 2021 Benjamin Brundell

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