The exceptional letterpress printing works that set the standard for jobbing printing.
Tag: London
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.
Mechanical Quoin
Faced with simple frame in which to set type, printers have always needed a device to fill space and hold the whole forme in one piece for printing.
London Centre for Book Arts
London’s flourishing, open, and welcoming centre for the Book Arts
Fleet Street Strikes
The mid-1980s newspaper dispute that changed the face of UK newspapers.
Bell
An especially English face that rested in obscurity for 144 years.
Stationers’ Company
The one-time all-powerful Guild protecting the ‘mystery’ of printing in London
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.”
British Letterpress in 100 Objects 