Printing Collection (#14)

Jacob Perkins / World Inv
JACOB PERKINS American inventor, especially associated with the printing of bank notes

16th Century Printer
A 16th century French printer, Robert Estienne, with a box of type

Mainz Captured / 1462
The capture of Mainz and the destruction of Peter Schoeffers printing press

Printing / Press-Room / 1887
Men working at printing presses under the glare of electric light

Daily Mail Composing Rm
Anxious moments in the Daily Mail composing room

French Compositor 1850
French compositor at work placing individual letters in his stick by hand

PETIT JOURNAL PRINTED
Newspapermen handing out copies of Le Petit Journal, printed at the 1889 Paris Exposition

Compositor at Work
A compositor at work in pre- mechanical days, picking out the individual letters to make up the text held in the holder beside him

Compositor at Wors
A compositor at work, setting the type for a book individual letter by individual letter, to say nothing of spaces and punctuation

Book Binder (Amman)
Interior of a German book- binding workshop : in the background the gatherings are being stitched, in the foreground covers are being prepared

Printing Blocks 1760S
How printing blocks are built up from individual characters, each one placed by the compositor, manually

Inking a Block 1907
INKING A BLOCK

Applegarth Press
Printing press by APPLEGARTH & COWPER

Caxtons Press (Cig Card
Caxton working at his press at Westminster

C16 Screw Press
Two printers working at a very primitive screw press : other tools of their trade are also depicted

Calico Printing
Calico printing, Lancashire

Dutch Printers Example
A splendid jeu d esprit from a Dutch printer, demonstrating his skill

Koln Bookseller Jubilee
Leonard Schwann, bookseller of Cologne, announces his jubilee in an appropriately jubilant style

William Caxton
WILLIAM CAXTON the first Introducer of Printing into England

Nurnberg Chronik 1493
The Cities of the Plain are destroyed : Lots wife, who turns to admire the show, is turned to a pillar of salt, but the rest of her family escape with angelic help

Fedoroff and Ivan
Tsar Ivan IV ( the Terrible ) visits the printing establishment of Ivan Fedoroff

1457 Printed Psalter
Part of the first page of the Latin Psalter, printed by German printers Schoeffer & Fust

Aloys Senefelder / Chereau
ALOYS SENEFELDER Prague-born German inventor of lithography, depicted in his workshop demonstrating his process

Verne, Michel Strogoff
The traditional design for the cover of the Hachette edition, 1919 printing

Newspaper Office 1930S
A busy newspaper office

Compositors / Diderot
Compositors at work

French Press C15
A French printing press of the 15th century

Page, Book of Hours (2)
Page from a printed BOOK OF HOURS, with woodblock illustrations, printed on vellum and with initial letters coloured by hand to imitate a manuscript

Page, Book of Hours
Page from a printed BOOK OF HOURS, with woodblock illustrations, printed on vellum and with initial letters coloured by hand to imitate a manuscript

Caxton & Printing Office
William Caxton reads a proof sheet from his printing press

Printing Chase
A printer in a waistcoat with a handlebar moustache, checks his printing chase on the chase

Roughing, Eggshelling
After Printing, Sheets may be Roughed or Eggshelled in the Roughing Machines

Storing Printing Plates
Original Plates are Stored in Fireproof Vaults and Carefully Indexed

Printing a Catalogue
The Automatic Front Delivery enables the pressman to closely watch the printing without necessity of removing the sheets from the press

Re-Etchers, Finishers
Re-etchers and Finishers at work

Dutch Printing Office
Interior view of a busy Dutch printing office

Pyne - Bill Sticker
BILL STICKER - One of the innumerable advantages of printing is the being enabled to advertise the public of such things as are essential to be known - and others

Revolutionary Printing
Revolutionaries compel printers to print their clandestine publication

Press of Jodocus Badius
The press of Jodocus Badius, ( Ascensius ), producing the title page, Flemish Date: 1511

Press at Leipzig / 1520
Press in Leipzig, Germany

Printing Office Scene / Dc
A scene in a printing office

Rotary Press Plate Photo
Changing the plate on a rotary press

Printing, 16th Century
A printing office showing the compositor, the printers and the proof-reader at work

CAXTONs PRESS 1474
Caxtons Press

Dutch Flat Bed Press C17
Working on a Dutch flat bed press

English Print House 1619
An English printing house

Caxton and Edward IV
Caxton showing the first specimen of his printing to King Edward IV at the Almonry, Westminster

Communications / Printing /
Hoes ten feeder printer machine, used to print the Daily Telegraph newspaper, London

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