The American Printing History Association (APHA) is currently accepting applications for the 2025 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship. The Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History is an annual award of up to $2,000 for research in any area of the history of printing in all its forms, including all the arts and technologies relevant to printing, the book arts, and letter forms.  [Read more]

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Detail of a sketch for an APHA logo by Hebert H. Johnson.

“In the course of every successful organization’s formation and progress, the building of it benefits from the hard work of many unseen, dedicated hands, and the able counsel of many quiet voices.”

—APHA citation for J. Ben and Elizabeth Lieberman, January 28, 1978

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APHA members will soon receive Printing History 35. This  100-page issue was developed by guest editors Aaron Pratt and Brittney Washington and advised by the Editorial Committee: Johanna Drucker, Sam Lemley, and Irene Tichenor. Printing History 35 feature articles on:

• Typesetting as Women’s Work

• Easter Eggs in the Printing of Henry Morris and the Bird & Bull Press

• Auriol as a Text Typeface:

• Queer Print in Victorian England

• Engraving of Matrices on a Modified Preis Engraver

• Selections from the APHA Fifty Print Exchange

• Thoughts on the founding of APHA and in the 1990s and early 2000s

This issue includes book reviews of Teaching the History of the Book, The JAB Anthology: Selections from the Journal of Artists’ Books, 1994–2020, and Albert Kner: Artist, Icon, Legend; Discovering His Legacy in Industrial Design.

The American Printing History Association is pleased to announce Sam Regal as the new editor of Printing History. She is the Instruction and Exhibitions Librarian in Special Collections and Archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she develops experiential learning modalities designed to connect her community with print and book history. [Read more]

Screenshot from the Bixlers 2020 APHA Institutional Award video

Michael Bixler spent his life dedicated to the art of typography and fine printing. Michael was a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Printing (class of 1969.) It was at RIT where Michael met his wife and life-long business partner Winifred (née Gray.) Although he was reticent to admit that he designed and cast his own typeface design, he did so as a student at RIT, and with admirable results. Michael served as an officer in the US Navy and the couple lived in Hawaii in the early 1970s. They have run the Press and Letterfoundry of Michael and Winifred Bixler since 1973 where their shop was first set up in Boston, MA. In 1983, they relocated to Skaneateles, NY where the shop currently resides. [Read more]

Please join APHA in celebrating its 50th  anniversary with this special hybrid conference, featuring curated in-person and live-streamed events in New York City (the Grolier Club and the Center for Book Arts) and Berkeley, California (The CODEX Foundation), with virtual-only papers and panels scheduled throughout the weekend.  Schedule PDF  |  Conference page

Via the Contact form:

I am writing a Grade 5 book on John Dunlap’s broadside and I wanted to follow up on some questions I put to your members some time ago. Is Rich Hopkins is still available to answer a few questions by email? Is there anyone else who can tell me about the effects of the revolution on types those days, and on the process that night? I am particularly interested in how and why printers really felt their calling was an artform, not just everyday labor. Thanks, Jenny Green

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American Printing History Association Annual Conference

New York City & Berkeley, October 17–19, 2024

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