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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
William Caxtons Burial-Place - St. Margarets ChurchWilliam Caxtons Burial-Place in St. Margarets Church, Westminster. Date: 1877
William Caxtons House in the Almonry, Westminster. Date: 1877
Portrait illustration of Christopher Plantin, an influential French book printer, publisher and renaissance humanist. Date: 1588
Portrait of Johann Froben (Johannes Frobenius in Latin). Famous printer and publisher from Basel
Wynkyn De WordeJAN van WYNKYN DE WORDE printer in London, apprentice to Caxton and his successor Date: ? - 1634
John Wight - 2JOHN WIGHT printer Date: circa 1550
John Wight - 3JOHN WIGHT printer Date: circa 1550
Sydney Waterlow YoungSIR SYDNEY HEDLEY WATERLOW distinguished printer, depicted as a young man working as a compositor in Paris. Date: 1822 - 1906
Sydney WaterlowSIR SYDNEY HEDLEY WATERLOW distinguished printer Date: 1822 - 1906
Jerome Di TrevisiJEROME DI TREVISI Printer and engineer to Henry VIII Date: 1508 - 1544
William SmellieWILLIAM SMELLIE Edinburgh printer, with on the left Andrew Bell, engraver. Date: 1740 - 1795
John Reeves - 2JOHN REEVES lawyer, printer and political writer Date: 1752 - 1829
John Reeves - 1JOHN REEVES lawyer, printer and political writer Date: 1752 - 1829
Christophe PlantinCHRISTOPHE PLANTIN French printer at Antwerp Date: 1514 - 1589
John Nichols - 1JOHN NICHOLS Printer and antiquarian author Date: 1745 - 1826
John Nichols - 2JOHN NICHOLS Printer and antiquarian author Date: 1745 - 1826
John Nichols SilhouetteJOHN NICHOLS Printer and antiquarian author Date: 1745 - 1826
Jan Moretus IJAN MORETUS I Flemish printer, member of a renowned printing dynasty. Date: 1543 - 1610
Thomas KirgateTHOMAS KIRGATE Printer at Strawberry Hill, near London - thats his printing office in the background - who printed the writings of Horace Walpole. Date: ? - 1810
Richard Jones, PrinterRICHARD JONES printer Date: 1564? - 1602
Central High Street - Chatteris - Cambridgeshire Date: circa 1903
17 Gough Square - where Dr. Johnson compiled his dictionary17 Gough Square, Fleet Street, London - where Dr. Samuel Johnson compiled his dictionary in 1748. In the garret (with the slanting roof) his assistants worked
SAN PEDRO, Diego de (15th century). Spanish writer. Prison of Love. Illustration depicting a battle
Spain (1808). Constitution of Bayonne. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library
ndrovich (1880-1921). Printing press. Typograph and character printer. Litography
Gutenberg, Johannes Gensfleich (c.1400-1468). German printer, inventor of the printing press. Reproduction of a sculpture by Juan
Printing workshop (18th c. ). EngravingPrinting workshop (18th c.). Engraving
William BulmerWILLIAM BULMER Printer with his autograph Date: 1757 - 1830
Barnardo Boys PrintingBarnardo boys learning the printers trade at Dr Barnardos Home at Stepney Causeway, London Date: circa 1914
William Caxton made his own ink, but you can have yours made
Girl watering flowers on a hillsideAn image of a girl in blue dress and pink hat, watering flowers on a hillside which is made up of a variety of papers and textures, showcasing the design work of printer, Jacques Makowsky. 1937
Reed Paper Group advertisement in ILN Coronation numberAdvertisement for Reed Paper Group, supplier of specialist paper to the publishing industry, featuring an illustration of a worker checking a Coronation issue as it comes off the printing presses
William Bowyer (Younger)WILLIAM BOWYER (the younger) Printer and scholar, known as the learned printer. Date: 1699 - 1777
Child labour in a printing shopPrinters devil in France using child labour 1841
Poster for O. de Rycker - Belgian LithographerPoster for the famous Brussels lithographer O. de Rycker, who excelled in the printing of subtle, luminous colours
PrintersAmerican Type Founders Co. Printing machines and presses
William Caxton in his workshopGreat nobles visited Caxtons workshop. William Caxton (c.1422-1492), English merchant and printer, the first to introduce the printing press to England and the first English seller of printed books
Printing Presses at Daily Mirror WorksA close-up view of one of the printing presses at the Daily Mirror works, where the newspapers were printed (far below ground level). Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Surface Plate being developedA surface plate being developed in the Replika Department of the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Binding Machines in OperationBinding machines in operation at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Automatic Feeders in the Binder supply sections to the endless chain of a wire-stitching machine. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Retoucher working on a colour separation positiveA Retoucher working on a colour separation positive at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Operating a Vertical ProjectorThe Head of the offset-deep process Department at the Lund Humphries Printing works, operating a vertical projector. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Operating the Velox Plate-Graining Machine at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
A small Letterpress Machine in operation at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Lifting a proof off a large forme at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Large Offset-Litho printing machineThe large Offset-Litho two-colour printing machine (a Roland-Ultra) preparing to run at the Lund Humpries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Minder of a two-colour Letterpress MachineThe Minder of a quad medium two-colour Letterpress Machine checks his sheet into the grippers at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram