Process for reproducing text and images using a master form or template

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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.

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.

Optics: microscopy, including a magnified title page and a specimen holder. Engraving by Barlow.

Printing engravings from copper plates: two men inking the plates, another operating the press (top), equipment (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.

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

Book impositions, 1956.

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

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

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

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Printing

Images from the collections

Images about Printing

Works from the collections

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

Book impositions, 1956.

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

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

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

Printing

Images from the collections

Images about Printing

Works from the collections

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

Book impositions, 1956.

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

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

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

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