Before digital layouts, printers designed in spreads—two facing pages meant to be read together. Even when printed out of order, the goal was how they’d look side by side. That mindset still shapes print design today.
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Currently attempting to figure out the distribution network for newsprints between Frankfurt and Augsburg in 1616. Of course, a mindnumbingly impossible task without the proper resources.
Anyone on here familiar with inter-printshop exchange/reproduction networks?
#History #PrintHistory #Historians
Perfect morning perusing @williammorrissocuk.bsky.social exhibitions at the Coach House of Kelmscott House. Got the press all to myself! Many thanks to Vanessa, Arianna, and the team for your hospitality. #printhistory #museum #skystorians
Glorious early modern woodcut decorative devices, and illustrations in some of our books for auction this week.
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This Valentine's Day...
Who tells the story of radical print?
A public lecture on Winifred Gales and the hidden labour behind Sheffield’s late-eighteenth-century radical press.
Sat 14 Feb | York Medical Society | £5
www.georgianyork.org.uk/what-s-on
#PrintHistory #WomenWriters #18C #18thC
Beautiful decorative devices, in some of our early modern books for auction this week.
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Beautiful decorative devices, in some of our early modern books for auction this week.
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Beautiful woodcut decorative devices, in some of our early modern books for auction this week.
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Congratulations to Elizabeth Savage (Univ. of London), winner of @printinghistory.bsky.social's 2026 Individual Award! Elizabeth is an incredible scholar, whose investigations of early modern color printing bridge the divide b/w science, art & the humanities.
#RareBooks #SpecColls #PrintHistory 🗃️📜
For writing this work, Prynne was found guilty of sedition, sentenced to life imprisonment, and had his ears cropped in the pillory. Copies of this 1st edition were to be burnt
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Beautiful woodcut decorative devices, in some of our early modern books for auction this week.
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‘The Circulating Library’ personification illustration by George Spratt. Printed by Printed by G. E. Madeley and published by C. Tilt, Fleet Street, London ca. 1830.
#printhistory #bookhistory #CirculatingLibrary #historyofprint #botanicalart #romanceofbooks
Cover of The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623-2023: Copy, Print, Paper, Type.
📚 New Book Review!
Lindsey L. Jones reviews:
The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623-2023: Copy, Print, Paper, Type, edited by Samuel V. Lemley (Penn State University Press, 2024).
Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#BookHistory #Shakespeare #PrintHistory #PublishingHistory #Folios
JOANNES ARBOREUS 1537-1551 BIBLE COMMENTARIES Theology SIMON DE COLINES & ROIGNY
Three rare Bible Commentries bound in one.
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Beautiful woodcut decoration and devices in this 16thC volume containing 3x scarce Bible commentaries by Joannes Arboreus
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JOANNES ARBOREUS 1537-1551 BIBLE COMMENTARIES Theology SIMON DE COLINES & ROIGNY
Three rare Bible Commentries bound in one.
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JOANNES ARBOREUS 1537-1551 BIBLE COMMENTARIES Theology SIMON DE COLINES & ROIGNY
Three rare Bible Commentries bound in one.
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Jan Luyken’s The Plate Printer (1694) from Het Menselyk Bedryf shows the heart of an early modern copperplate workshop.
The pressman strains at the rolling press while fresh prints hang to dry — a perfect tribute to human skill and ink.
#PrintHistory #Luyken #CopperplatePrinting #BookHistory
SAINT BRUNO 1524 POST INCUNABLE Latin WORKS LIFE Durer BADIUS Woodcuts
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SAINT BRUNO 1524 POST INCUNABLE Latin WORKS LIFE Durer BADIUS Woodcuts
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SAINT BRUNO 1524 POST INCUNABLE Latin WORKS LIFE Durer BADIUS Woodcuts
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SAINT BRUNO 1524 POST INCUNABLE Latin WORKS LIFE Durer BADIUS Woodcuts
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Personifications by George Spratt. Originally lithographed by George Madeley and published by Charles Tilt in London. Senefelder Lithographic Co. released prints for the American Market, c1830-1831.
I saw these at the Boston Athenæum.
#PrintHistory #SpecialCollections
A person handling a printer in a home office setting, focusing on placing paper.
Why is US letter paper 8.5" x 11"? 🤔
The size was officially adopted as a US nat'l standard by the ANSI in the 1920s, and President Reagan reinforced it for government use in the 80s! It's a key piece of print history.
#PaperFacts #PrintHistory #DesignCuriosity #CedarGraphics
SAINT BRUNO 1524 POST INCUNABLE Latin WORKS LIFE Durer BADIUS Woodcuts
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Question: what is your favorite "obsolete" print technology? We're researching an upcoming episode. So far we have mimeographs & goccos. #print #history #handmadehistory #deadtech #letterpress #gocco #mimeograph #printhistory
📖✨ When America Got Its First Printing Press 🖨️🇺🇸
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Delightful woodcut publisher's & decorative devices, in some of our early modern books for auction this week.
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Beautiful woodcut decorative devices, in some of our early modern books for auction this week.
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