Size:In Depth – British Letterpress in 100 Objects

Curwen Press

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

The York-based king of UK woodletter

The serif-less face that took us from the age of metal to the age of light.

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.

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

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

A relief printing process, impressing inked letters on paper but not quite letterpress!