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British Letterpress in 100 Objects

British Letterpress in 100 Objects

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Category: 1800s

Curwen Press

The exceptional letterpress printing works that set the standard for jobbing printing.

Published March 4, 2023
Categorized as 1800s, Commercial, Firms and Organisations, London, Object Tagged 1860s, Curwen Press, Jobbing, Letterpress, London, Monotype, Oliver Simon, Plaistow, Size:In Depth, Tonic Sol-Fa, Walbaum, World War II

DeLittle

The York-based king of UK woodletter

Published February 4, 2023
Categorized as 1800s, Mass Production, Object, Types and Casting, Yorkshire and the Humber Tagged 1880s, De Little, Jim DeLittle, North Yorkshire, Robert DeLittle, Size:In Depth, Type Museum, Wood Type, Woodletter, York, Yorkshire and the Humber

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

Rule Bender and Artistic Printing

The little machine that allowed jobbing printers inject variety and excitement in to the expanding world of Victorian commerce.

Published April 16, 2022
Categorized as 1800s, East Midlands, Mass Production, Object, Types and Casting Tagged 1880s, 1890s, Artistic Printing, Exchange, Jobbing Printing, Leicestershire, Object, Rule Bender, Size:In Depth

Britannia Press

Leeds’ all-iron hand press, popular in the North of England.

Published March 5, 2022
Categorized as 1800s, Craft, Object, Press, Site Update, Yorkshire and the Humber Tagged 1830s, Britannia Press, Iron Hand Press, Leeds, Size:Article, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber

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