The little machine that allowed jobbing printers inject variety and excitement in to the expanding world of Victorian commerce.
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Multigraph
A relief printing process, impressing inked letters on paper but not quite letterpress!
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.
Dexion
Dexion is an example of Slotted Angle, described by the BFMP as “a post-war development on the principle of the Meccano unit construction but in sizes appropriate to industrial application. It is of inestimable value to industry in general and has wide actual and potential application in the printing industry.”
Thompson Platen
The Manchester-built competitor to the Heidelberg Platen.
Wipers Times
The creation of a news sheet by Derbyshire soldiers finding a bombed-out print shop in Ypres.
Times Mobile Printing Unit
How The Times planned to keep printing newspapers, even if their London base was destroyed in nuclear war.
Farley Proofing Press
The workhorse of many commercial firms’ proofing departments.
Miller and Richard
Miller and Richard were a significant foundry, based in Edinburgh between 1809 and 1952.
British Letterpress in 100 Objects 