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Printing

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Images from the collections

Images about Printing

42 images from works
  • Textiles: men working at large fabric printing machines. Engraving.
  • A log cabin, which housed the first printing press at the head of Lake Superior. Process print after a lithograph of 1855.
  • A printing press: seen from the side. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Printing. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Printing: three-quarter view and details of the Bramah numerator press for banknote production. Engraving by Mutlow after J. Farey.
  • A woman personifying typography crowns a naked boy with a golden serpent; representing printing conferring immortality on the arts, sciences and literature. Coloured engraving by E. J. Roberts after H.J. Richter.
  • Men working at a printing press, proofing copy, inking, and setting type. Wood engraving. 18--, after Stradanus, ca.1580.
  • Printing. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • A printing press, for copper plates, with many details. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Typesetters at work, putting type into composing-sticks (above), type, spaces, a composing-stick, and a forme (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.

Works from the collections

610 works

    • Books

    Eighteenth-century Williamsburg imprints / compiled by Susan Stromei Berg.

    | Date: [1986], ©1986
    • Books

    Book impositions, 1956.

    British Federation of Master Printers | Date: [1956]
    • Books

    Enrico Martínez : cosmógrafo e impresor de Nueva España / Francisco de la Maza ; con adiciones de Francisco González de Cossío.

    Maza, Francisco de la, 1913-1972. | Date: 1991
    • Books

    Who was William Caxton? : a lecture / given by H.W. Larken.

    Larken, H. W. | Date: [1978]
    • Books

    La imprenta en Guadalajara de México, 1793-1821 / por J.T. Medina.

    Medina, José Toribio, 1852-1930. | Date: 1982

Related topics

United Kingdom
Book Industry
History, 16th Century
Incunabula as Topic
England
Publishing
History, 18th Century
Literature
London
15th-16th centuries

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