Printing Collection (page 9)

MERCURY PRINTED / 1950S
The Leicester Mercury hot off the press Date: 1950s

English Printer 1710
The interior of an English printing office in the 18th century - setting up the type, inking, and gathering the sheets Date: circa 1710

Laying out Type
Laying out the type in the Salisbury Times composing room Date: 1950s

Letter Press Printing
A 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 / Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph ten- feeder printing machine, manufactured by Hoe & Co. USA. Date: 1860

Beatus Rhenanus
BILD AUS RHEINAU Alsatian humanist and printers editor - he superintended the printing of Erasmuss works Date: 1485 - 1547

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

Publication of The Times daily newspaper 1862
Publication 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 - 2
Part of a page from the Wurzburg Missal, 1470, one of the earliest printed books Date: 1470

Wurzburg Missal, 1470 - 1
Part of a page from the Wurzburg Missal, 1470, one of the earliest printed books Date: 1470

Ars Memorandi
Part of a page from the block book Ars memorandi (The Art of Memory) Date: 16th century

Title Page 1607
The title page of the eighth part of INDIAE ORIENTALIS an account of recent travels in the East, published in Frankfurt Date: 1607

Printing Example 1644
The title-page of Matthew Merians Topographia Bavaria one of the many superb topographical albums produced by the Merian family Date: 1644

Gutenberg Office
The Algesheimer Hof, site of Gutenbergs original printing office at Mainz [Germany]

Gutenberg Takes Proof
Gutenberg takes a proof

Printing Works, Rouen
The interior of the Imprimerie Wolf, Rouen Date: 1927

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

Faust Invents Printing
The 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 1908
Newspaper rotary printing machine, by Walter Scott & Co, Plainfield Date: 1908

Promo postcard to demonstrate Hood 3-colour block printing
Promotional postcard to demonstrate Hood 3-colour block printing on postcards for the reproduction of watercolours (photo-engraving). Date: circa 1910s

The Strand Magazine - Christmas Crackers
Two 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 envelope
Photographic 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, London
Hulton Printing Office Interior, London, County of London, England. Showing ticker-tape machines Date: 1910s

Main and Delaware Streets, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Junction of Main and Delaware Streets, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Date: 1906

Printing Machine at hatworks
Photographed 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 Golden
PEREZ 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 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

Delivery of newspapers from the machine
Newspapers 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 W1
LFB 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 Faust
Johann 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, 1829
A 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 Verdun
Board 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 dog
Silhouette of a girl photographing her dog with a box camera. Date: (insert)

Advert, Arthur Pelling of Chiswick, photography
Advertisement and receipt for Arthur Pelling Ltd of Turnham Green Terrace, Chiswick, West London, photography supplier and chemist

Printing Shop, St Aldhelms Home, Frome
Men 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 industry
Cover design for Das Plakat, an illustrated survey of German poster art, depicting men at work printing a newspaper. Date: March 1915

Anti-Japanese printing press
An anti-Japanese printing press based in a cave outside the Chinese city of Hangzhou (Hangchow) Date: 1938

Samples of 1920s booklets
A 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 Performing
French 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

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