Printing Collection (page 5)

Chinese printing, Qing Dynasty. Printers workshop with engraved boards, paper sheets, printing ink, etc. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon

Type founders making metal type near a furnace
Type founders making metal type for a printing press near a furnace. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Type founders making printing type in a workshop. The caster pours hot metal into letter moulds and then throws the letters to a polisher who sits at a polishing stone

Printing blocks used at floor cloth factory, SW London
Six printing blocks used to create one pattern at the Smith and Baber floor cloth factory, Knightsbridge, SW London. Date: 1842

Printing block used at floor cloth factory, SW London
Original printing block used at the Smith and Baber floor cloth factory, Knightsbridge, SW London. Date: 1842

The Illustrated London News - publishing office 1843
Saturday scene at The Illustrated London News publishing office. 1843

Inking rollers
Illustration of man inking rollers for printing. Date: 1940

Printing room
Illustration of printers machine room. Date: 1939

Examples of inks for printing bank cheques. 1899

Advert, Winstones Printing Inks, London
Advert for Winstones Printing Inks, Shoe Lane, London. 1899

Barnardos William Baker Training School ( Goldings ), Hertf
Boys in the printing department at Barnardos William Baker Training School (also known as Goldings ), near Hertford

Printing machine at work, Black & White magazine. 1893

One of the Machine Rooms, Black & White magazine. 1893

Insetting, Stitching and Cutting, Black & White magazine
Insetting, Stitching, Cutting, Black & White magazine. 1893

Engine Room, Black & White magazine. 1893

Cutting overlays, Black & White magazine. 1893

A corner of the Composing Department. 1893

A corner of the Black Shop - The British Printer. 1893

Augustus Applegath and Edward Cowpers printing machine 1833
The invention of a steam powered rotary printing machine revolutionised the western world and opened large opportunities of mass distribution of books and news publications. 1833

Advert for Shuck Maclean and Co Ltd, printing ink manufacturers. The Secretary of the Spoof Museum - Antediluvian Art Section - writes: Replying to your enquiry

Cartoon advert for Shuck Maclean and Co Ltd, makers of printing inks. The winner of a beauty competition writes: I ascribe my success entirely to the use of your charming inks. 20th century

Pressroom, Sears Roebuck & Co, Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the famous mail order catalogue was printed. Date: circa 1910s

William Caxtons Printing Office in Westminster Abbey, London. 1474

Sir Sydney Waterlow, statue in Waterlow Park, London
Sir Sydney Waterlow, founder of the printing company, statue erected in Waterlow Park, London. late 19th century

Sir Sydney Waterlow, founder of printing company
Sir Sydney Waterlow, founder of the printing company. late 19th century

Patricks Street, Cork, Munster, Ireland
Patricks Street, viewed from Patricks Hill, Cork, Munster, Ireland. circa 1910s

Variety of Telegraph machinery including a Single needle telegraph of Cooke Date: circa 1850

Advertisement for Manders poster inks depicting a lady looking through a lorgnette. Date: 1897

Cover design, Art & Publicity, Fine Printing & Design, Special Autumn Number of The Studio. Date: 1925

William Caxton checking a proof
The printer William Caxton checking a proof. Printed the first English illustrated book, the encyclopaedia The Myrrour of the worlde in 1481. Date: circa 1481

Liberty Loan, Preparing the Bonds at Washington U. S. A 1917
Women worker at the bureau printing presses, bonds had to go through lots of processes before the finish result was ready to be purchased by the public. Date: 1917

CAXTON AND HIS PRESS
The printer William Caxton checking a proof. Printed the first English illustrated book, the encyclopaedia The Myrrour of the worlde in 1481. Date: circa 1475

Fourteen colour plates are used to make the engraving for the special supplements, here you can see the different print machines used for each colour that is done separately. Date: 1881

Printing the original weekly newspaper The Graphic. Date: 1881

Men working in the batteries and dynamo machine room before going to print. Date: 1881

Finising and planing the electrotypes, before the printing can be done. Date: 1881

Some of the artist in the early Graphic newspaper that produce the thousands of sketches or elaborate drawings of different subjects that went together to make this interesting publication. Date: 1881

Rotary Press Date: 1941

Flat Floral Design

The Illustrated London News at Milford Lane 1851
The Illustrated London News, a weekly news magazine, was published from 198 Strand on the corner with Milford Lane and as the paper expanded it acquired Milford House and other buildings in the lane

Illustrated London News, Harrild & Sons roller printer 1885 Illustrated London
A Souvenir from The Illustrated London News, patent printing machine at the International Exhibition of Inventions. Date: 1885

Daily Chronicle newspaper 1900
Making curved plates for offset printing, on cylinders. Date: 1900

Press Printing, Thomas Hoyles Print Works, Manchester 1843
Press-printing a repeating pattern onto a roll of calico cloth at Thomas Hoyles Print Works, Manchester. Date: 1843

Block Printing, Thomas Hoyles Print Works, Manchester 1843
Block-printing a design onto a length of calico cloth at Thomas Hoyles Print Works, Manchester. Date: 1843

ENGRAVERS WORKSHOP
Teams of engravers were employed by illustrated magazines like the Illustrated London News, transforming the artists drawings into blocks for printing. Date: circa 1850

16th century Bookbinders
Stages in the binding of a books : stitching the gatherings, flattening the sheets for insertion. Date: 16th century

SEED CATALOGUE COVER
Cover of a seed catalogue, William Bryiant of Rugby, England Date: 1885

REGISTER PRINTS RECEIPT
A receipt-printing cash register Date: 1917

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