The study of the history of printing and typography, from early China to Gutenberg and on to the present day
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Sarah Werner deposited Feminist Bibliographical Praxis in the group
Printing History on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
What follows is a talk I gave (over zoom) on June 29, 2022, for the London Rare Book School and the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and mildly revised in the transcript I posted on my blog on September 7, 2022. It was an opportunity for me to talk about the work I’ve been doing on feminist bibliography over the past couple of…[Read more]
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Marco Heiles deposited Bibliographie der Drucke und Werke Peter Jordans in the group
Printing History on Humanities Commons 12 months ago
Peter Jordan war von 1531 bis 1535 als Buchdrucker in Mainz aktiv. In seiner Presse entstanden zum einen gegenreformatorische Schriften wie eine Schmähschrift gegen Luther, Predigten und eine deutsche Bibelübersetzung, zum anderen aber auch deutschsprachige Wissens- und Gebrauchstexte, bspw. zum Kurbaden, zur Tintenherstellung, zur K…[Read more]
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Paul W. Nash edited the post Small capitals in the group
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Paul W. Nash deposited The pre-history of “small caps”: from all caps to smaller capitals to small caps in the group Printing History on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
This article describes the development of the typographical phenomenon of “small capitals” during the fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century.
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Paul W. Nash posted an update in the group
Printing History on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
Calling all researchers in printing history. There is just one month left before the deadline for submissions for this year’s PHS Prize for New Scholarship …
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Paul W. Nash deposited The pre-history of “small caps”: from all caps to smaller capitals to small caps in the group
Printing History on Humanities Commons 1 year, 7 months ago
This article describes the development of the typographical phenomenon of “small capitals” during the fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century.
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Paul W. Nash deposited Scaleboard: the material of interlinear spacing before ‘leading’ in the group
Printing History on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
Scaleboard, thin strips or leaves of wood, was used in printing for various purposes, notably to provide interlinear spacing, as well as in bookbinding. This article explores the nature, manufacture and history of scaleboard, and its uses inside and outside the printing industry from the late medieval period to the turn of the twentieth century.
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Paul W. Nash deposited Two hundred years of publisher’s cloth in the group
Printing History on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
The year 2020 marks the bicentenary of a revolution in the manner in which books were published in England, and soon enough around the world, for 1820 was the year in which the first publisher’s binding in cloth probably appeared. The first books published in cloth are often said to be the series of miniature, diamond-type ‘classics’ issued in Lo…[Read more]
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Paul W. Nash deposited A note on Peter Schoeffer’s book-list of ‘1470’ in the group
Printing History on Humanities Commons 2 years ago
Peter Shoeffer’s book-list is usually dated to the year 1470. The author challenges this dating, however, supplying a detailed analysis of the content of the list and suggested when it was printed and under what circumstances.
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Robert M. Kelly deposited The WALLPAPER Volume 1, Number 6 in the group
Printing History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago
THE ZUBER PATRIARCHY
Spring: Jean Zuber, fl.1790-1835; Summer: Jean Zuber-Karth, fl. 1836-1853; Autumn: Ivan (Jean) Zuber, fl. 1854-1907This is the first of a multi-part series telling how the Zuber family made wallpaper over a 117-year period (1790-1907). It is closely based on the thesis “From the Workshop to the Wall” by Dr. Bernard Jac…[Read more]
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Paul W. Nash deposited The abandoning of the long s in Britain in 1800 in the group
Printing History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
The “long s” was used in almost all British printing until 1800. Then, almost overnight, the character was dropped by most printers. This article examines the lead up to this watershed, the printers and publishers who eschewed the long s before 1800, what happened in the printing industry at this time, and in the following years in which a few…[Read more]
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Danielle Skjelver started the topic Call for Peer Reviewers in the discussion
Printing History on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
The History of Applied Science & Technology Open Access Textbook editors seek peer reviewers for all regions and all periods.
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Paul W. Nash deposited The “first” type of Gutenberg: a note on recent research in the group
Printing History on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
The “first” type of Gutenberg: a note on recent research (2004). This article has been somewhat superseded by the work of Christoph Reske, published in Gutenberg-Jahrbuch (2015).
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Paul W. Nash deposited The “first” type of Gutenberg: a note on recent research (2004) in the group
Printing History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
The “first” type of Gutenberg: a note on recent research (2004). This article has been somewhat superseded by the work of Christoph Reske, published in Gutenberg-Jahrbuch (2015).
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Paul W. Nash started the topic Journal of the Printing Historical Society 31 in the discussion
Printing History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
The latest number of the Printing Historical Society Journal is out (just in time for Saturnalia). It contains Michael Twyman on the production and circulation of electrotypes for horticultural catalogues by Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie; the second part of Martyn Ould’s essay on “Printing at the Bible Press, Oxford, 1769–1772”; Katharina Walter on “…[Read more]
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Paul W. Nash deposited Two rare table-top presses at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in the group
Printing History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months ago
A description and history of two rare table-top presses at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, used there to print specimen labels between around 1850 and 1970.
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Paul W. Nash created the group
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