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MERCURY PRINTED / 1950SThe Leicester Mercury hot off the press Date: 1950s
English Printer 1710The interior of an English printing office in the 18th century - setting up the type, inking, and gathering the sheets Date: circa 1710
Laying out TypeLaying out the type in the Salisbury Times composing room Date: 1950s
Letter Press PrintingA letter press printer being operated with both hands and feet. A typesetter works in the background and sheets of printed paper are drying on lines above him. Date: 1827
Hoe Ten Feeder / TelegraphThe Daily Telegraph ten- feeder printing machine, manufactured by Hoe & Co. USA. Date: 1860
Beatus RhenanusBILD AUS RHEINAU Alsatian humanist and printers editor - he superintended the printing of Erasmuss works Date: 1485 - 1547
Printers / PremisesFormer home of Dr Johnson at 17 Gough Square, London, by 1910 a printers and and stationers Date: 1910
Publication of The Times daily newspaper 1862Publication of The Times newspaper, inside the office. Printing House Square, the sub-editors have benn for some time in their rooms. Date: 1862
Wurzburg Missal, 1470 - 2Part of a page from the Wurzburg Missal, 1470, one of the earliest printed books Date: 1470
Wurzburg Missal, 1470 - 1Part of a page from the Wurzburg Missal, 1470, one of the earliest printed books Date: 1470
Ars MemorandiPart of a page from the block book Ars memorandi (The Art of Memory) Date: 16th century
Title Page 1607The title page of the eighth part of INDIAE ORIENTALIS an account of recent travels in the East, published in Frankfurt Date: 1607
Printing Example 1644The title-page of Matthew Merians Topographia Bavaria one of the many superb topographical albums produced by the Merian family Date: 1644
Gutenberg OfficeThe Algesheimer Hof, site of Gutenbergs original printing office at Mainz [Germany]
Gutenberg Takes ProofGutenberg takes a proof
Printing Works, RouenThe interior of the Imprimerie Wolf, Rouen Date: 1927
Caxton Reads 1st ProofsCaxton reads his first proof- sheet while a group of fellow printers look on anxiously Date: March 1474
Faust Invents PrintingThe German occult philosopher Johann Faustus was sometimes credited with having invented printing : here he shows his wife the letters ABC printed from a wood block Date: circa 1530
Washington DC, USA - Bureau of Printing and Engraving at cherry blossom time Date: 1943
Newspaper rotary printing machine 1908Newspaper rotary printing machine, by Walter Scott & Co, Plainfield Date: 1908
Promo postcard to demonstrate Hood 3-colour block printingPromotional postcard to demonstrate Hood 3-colour block printing on postcards for the reproduction of watercolours (photo-engraving). Date: circa 1910s
The Strand Magazine - Christmas CrackersTwo pages from The Strand, part of an article about the manufacture of Christmas Crackers at Messrs Tom Smith and Co, of Wilson Street, Finsbury, London
Photographic portrait wallet from the studio of R Hodgkiss of The Promenade and Talbot Road, Blackpool. Date: 20th century
Photographic print envelopePhotographic film envelope advertising Kodak and Brownie cameras, with the developers name and address: R Jalbhoy, Elphinstone Street, Karachi, India
The Stanhope or iron printing press, 18th century.. The Stanhope or iron printing press, invented by Earl Charles Stanhope, 18th century
Hulton Printing Office Interior, London, LondonHulton Printing Office Interior, London, County of London, England. Showing ticker-tape machines Date: 1910s
Main and Delaware Streets, Kansas City, Missouri, USAJunction of Main and Delaware Streets, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Date: 1906
Printing Machine at hatworksPhotographed at Battersbys hat factory in Turncroft Lane, Offerton Stockport, a printing machine possibly for hat labels or publications within the works. Date: circa 1906
Printing. Printmaker of etching. 1641. Engraving
PEREZ DE HITA, Gin鳠(1544-1619). Spanish GoldenPEREZ DE HITA, Gin鳠 (1544-1619). Spanish Golden Age writer. Cover of the book Historia de los bandos de los zegr y abencerrajes, caballeros moros de Granada
Paris, France - La Tour Eiffel, printing house Figaro on the second level. Date: 1889
Type Founder 1827The role of the Type Founder consists of the melting of metals for the formation of moulds, letterings, and figures, used in the art of printing. Date: 1827
Delivery of newspapers from the machineNewspapers coming off the printing press and gathered and counted by two men while the man on the right removes the bundles of papers to take to the publishing department. Date: 1914
Incident in Charlotte Street, London W1LFB Special Services attending an incident in Charlotte Street, London W1, 6 February 1956. A boy is being supported by a member of the ambulance crew
Johann FaustJohann Fust (1400-1466) - German printer. He appears to have been the partner of Johann Gutenberg in promoting the art of printing as he was his money-lender
Cartoon of the newspaper press, 1829A print by H. Heath representing symbolically the fearless and trenchant attitude of the Press in early nineteenth century
Board put up by Germans reporting big victory at VerdunBoard put up by Germans to tell us of a big victory at Verdun against the French. 4.3.16 - Mount Sorrel. Copy of Printing on Board - BIS GESTERN ABEND WAREN AN. UNWARENDEIN GEFANGENEN GEZAHLL
Silhouette, girl photographing dogSilhouette of a girl photographing her dog with a box camera. Date: (insert)
Advert, Arthur Pelling of Chiswick, photographyAdvertisement and receipt for Arthur Pelling Ltd of Turnham Green Terrace, Chiswick, West London, photography supplier and chemist
Printing Shop, St Aldhelms Home, FromeMen at work in the printing workshop at St Aldhelms Home, Oakfield Road. Frome. Linked to the nearby Sunnyside Boys Home, the print works produced literature for the Waifs and Strays Society
View of Fleet Street, London, with flags and garlands for the Silver Jubilee celebrations. Date: 1935
Cover design, German newspaper industryCover design for Das Plakat, an illustrated survey of German poster art, depicting men at work printing a newspaper. Date: March 1915
Anti-Japanese printing pressAn anti-Japanese printing press based in a cave outside the Chinese city of Hangzhou (Hangchow) Date: 1938
Samples of 1920s bookletsA picture of five different booklets printed in 1925, including three steamer brochures, a Housewives Almanack and a booklet entitled Shoes and Success Date: 1925
French Magician / Robert Houdin PerformingFrench conjuror Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin (1805-1871) performing a magic trick using a Impression instantanee (instant printing) machine in the mid 19th century. Date: circa 1840
J. R. Riddell, the First Principal of the St Bride Library Printing School. (The fore-runner of the London College of Communication)
The Keystone Wringer, the best in the world. By F.F. Adams & Co
Advertisement for Jean Berte colour printing, featuring a womans face in profile, with flowers. Date: circa 1930s