Printers Collection (page 4)

Interior of a printing press in the early modern age. Illustration by Lluis Bargall󮠗 atercolour

Wymans book stall at Paddington Station, 1915
An impressive bookstall at Paddington railway station in 1915 with a display of the recently printed Printers Pie, a charitable publication produced in aid of retired printers

The Illustrated London News steam printing machines
Engraving of the steam printing machines used by the weekly periodical, The Illustrated London News. There were two separate machines; one for printing one side of the paper

The Printers Almshouses - Wood Green, London Date: circa 1908

Printers / Premises
Former home of Dr Johnson at 17 Gough Square, London, by 1910 a printers and and stationers Date: 1910

Caxton Reads 1st Proofs
Caxton reads his first proof- sheet while a group of fellow printers look on anxiously Date: March 1474

Edinburgh engravers receipt, 1849
A receipt for monies received from Mr James Brown paid to an engravers, lithographers and printers firm, James Turner & Co, in Edinburgh, Lothian Road for a variety of work. Date: 1849

Hultons Printers - Office, London
Hultons Printers - Office, County of London, England. Date: 1900s

Scouting silhouettes by H. L. Oakley -- third page of a leaflet by B Haram & Co, printers and publishers of The Daily Arrowe, showing scouts and camping scenes

Printing. Printmaker of etching. 1641. Engraving

Type Founder 1827
The 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

Prayer Book for Jewish Sailors and Soldiers - WWI
Prayer Book for Jewish Sailors and Soldiers - enlarged edition. Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd. His Majestys Printers. 5676 - 1916. Stamped Rev. I

A Woman At War - WWI
A Woman At War - Being experiences of an Army Signaller in France in 1917-1919 - 807, Unit 3, W.A.A.C. L Signals, A.P.O. 3, France. Published in Liverpool by Daily Post Printers, Wood Street. Book

Official programme - Triumphal March of the London Troops
Official programme for the Triumphal March of the London Troops - London, July 5, 1919. Printed and published for the London Troops Reception Committee by Harrison & Sons

W H Smith book stall at Cannon Street Station, 1915
The book stall of W. H. Smith at Cannon Street station, London showing in particular, the display of Printers Pie magazine, a twice-yearly charitable publication produced by Hugh Spottiswoode

Anatomical drawings; dissection Source: La dissection des parties du corps humain divisee en trois livres / faictz par Charles Estienne

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

St Brides Church
Seen from Fleet Street, thanks to a gap caused by a fire : the church has affiliations with printers and journalists. Date: 1825

Richard Pynson
RICHARD PYNSON one of the earliest printers in England Date: ? - 1530

17 Gough Square - where Dr. Johnson compiled his dictionary
17 Gough Square, Fleet Street, London - where Dr. Samuel Johnson compiled his dictionary in 1748. In the garret (with the slanting roof) his assistants worked

Spain (1808). Constitution of Bayonne. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library

Printing workshop (18th c. ). Engraving
Printing workshop (18th c.). Engraving

Aftermath of fire, Salisbury Square, London
The aftermath of a fire in Salisbury Square, at the time the heart of the newspaper world of London. A disastrous fire broke out in Dorset Buildings

Advertisement for Maclure & Macdonald, Lithographers, Draftsmen, Engravers & Printers of London and Glasgow. circa 1883

Silhouette of a street scene

Reed Paper Group advertisement in ILN Coronation number
Advertisement 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

National Childrens Home London Branch - Printers Room
The London branch of the home and orphanage run by the National Childrens Home (NCH). Here, boys are shown in the homes printers room surrounded by printing machinery. Date: Date unknown

Brooklyn Eagle Card
Trade card of The Brooklyn Eagle, printers Date: 1885

American Trade Card
The trade card of Ferguson, Thomas & Co, printers of Poughkeepsie, New York Date: 1885

Printers
American Type Founders Co. Printing machines and presses

Composing and Retouching at printing works
Composing and Retouching Studio at the Lund Humphries Printing works in Bradford. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

The Monotype Caster Room at a Printing Works
The Monotype Caster Room at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. The Gentleman holding the clipboard is recording the results of a production time study. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: late 1950s

Hand Compositor receiving spacing materials
Reserve supplies of spacing material are brought to the hand compositor so that his time is not wasted in journeys to the store at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Paper is placed in the printing press
A printer at a print works removes a large printed page from the printing press. The sheet depicts food items, possibly for a recipe book or calendar. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Printing Shop, Darenth Training Colony, Kent
Printing shop at the Darenth Training Colony near Dartford in Kent. The colony, for adult mental defectives, was set up by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1904 as an addition to the existing

Margaret Ctess Richmond
Margaret Beaufort, countess of RICHMOND and Derby, wife of Edmund Tudor, 1st earl, mother of Henry VII; founder of colleges and patron of printers : mother of Henry VII

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

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

Ambroise Firmin Didot
AMBROISE FIRMIN DIDOT French scholar, reputed for his Greek studies. He was a member of a famous French family of printers

Benefit Soc. Certificate
Allegorical depictions of suffering, succour, prudence, sickness & acts of God. Also carpenters, masons, weavers, printers, blacksmiths, farm worker, bricklayers & engineer

EDWARD TOBY KING Character who took copy to the printers for his renowned bookseller uncle Abel Roper. He was easily recognised by his squint & warts

Revolutionary Printing
Revolutionaries compel printers to print their clandestine publication

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

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