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Spring 2008 (no. 166) View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF 1347K / 12 Pages)

  • Report on the Annual Meeting

  • A Visit to Hamilton Woodtype  by Bill Moran

  • APHA Awards for 2007: Henry Morris (proprietor of Bird & Bull Press) and Oak Knoll Books & Oak Knoll Publishing (Robert D. Fleck, accepting)

  •  The APHA Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History

  • “Saving the History of Printing”: APHA 2008 Annual Conference to be held in New York

  • 2008 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellows: Pablo Alvarez and Keli E. Rylance

  • Chapter News & Upcoming Events: New England, New York, Chesapeake, Northern California and Southern California

  • APHA SoCal at the Movies: Helvetica, reviewed by Steve MacLeod

  • Sue Allen Delivers 2007 J. Ben Lieberman Memorial Lecture

  • Trustee Profile: Carl Darrow

  • Atlas of Early Printing Online

  • APHA Webmaster Needed

  • Correction

  • & Comment

  • Further News [The Machine that Made Us: Gutenberg]

  • Oak Knoll: APHA's New Distributor

  • Nota Bene

  • New Members

  • In Memoriam: Susan Otis Thompson; and Douglas O. Morgan

  • Websites, Blogs and Listservs Mentioned in this Issue of the Newsletter

Winter 2008 (no. 165) View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF 1347K / 12 Pages)

  • Report on the 2007 Annual Conference, “Transformations: The Persistence of Aldus Manutius”

  • Back to the Futura: Preserving Printing’s Past in the United States, by Frank Romano

  • Chapter News & Upcoming Events: Chesapeake, New England, New York and Southern California

  • Trustee Profile: Terry Chouinard

  • A Printshop Gifted by Ronald Gordon

  • Mosley’s Index to Smith’s Printer’s Grammar (1755)

  • Sue Allen to deliver 2007 J. Ben Lieberman Memorial Lecture this April

  • Benjamin Franklin Exhibition Concludes February 2, 2008

  • First Printing in Australia

  • Aere Perennius Revisited

  • APHA 2008 Annual Conference in New York City

  • New Members

Fall 2007 (no. 164) View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF 820K / 5 Pages)

NB: This issue of the APHA Newsletter included a membership directory which has been deleted from the copy available online.

  • 2007 & 2008 Annual Conferences

  • Quest for Films of Printing and Typesetting

  • Chapter News and Upcoming Events: Southern California, New England, New York

  • TypeCon 2008

  • Ron Gordon and the Oliphant Press

  • 2008 APHA Fellowship in Printing History

  • Further to Bruce Rogers

  • 2007 J. Ben Lieberman Memorial Lecture

  • Aere Perennius ...

  • NB: the Membership Directory has been removed from the online issue to protect privacy of APHA members

Summer 2007 (no. 163) View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF 290K / 4 Pages)

  • Update on APHA’s 31st Annual Conference: Transformations: the Persistence of Aldus Manutius

  • The Printing of Handwriting Manuals in America

  • Chapter News & Upcoming Events: New England, Chesapeake, Southern California, Northern California, New York

  • Printing History on EBSCO

  • Book Notice

  • A Curious Transformation

  • Briefly Noted

  • Sustaining, Contributing and New APHA Members

Spring 2007 (no. 162) View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF 647K / 8 Pages)

  • 2007 Conference Update

  • Newsletter Production: Welcome & Thanks

  • APHA Annual meeting, 27 January 2007: A Biased Report. [Reports of officers; summary of award winner talks by Michael Twyman and Patricia Peterson of the Society of Printers)

  •  The APHA Fellowship (report on winners)

  • New Trustees: Robert McCamant and Steven Escar Smith

  • Chapter News & Upcoming Events: New England, New York, Southern California, Chesapeake

  • Books Noted

  • Announcements

  • New Members

  • In Memoriam: Paul Hayden Duensing and Emerson G. Wulling

Winter 2007 (no. 161) View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF 245K / 4 Pages)

  • A Message from the President

  • Call for Papers

  • A Report on the Annual Conference, Philadelphia 2006

  • "Paper: There Wouldn’t Be Any Printing History Without It," Henry Morris, Bird and Bull Press, The 2006 Lieberman Lecture

  • Finding Stuff Online, Part IV: Printed Materials on eBay

  • Printing History, New Series

  • Oral History Project

  • Recent News & Upcoming Events: Annual Meeting, reports from New York, New England, and Southern California

  • "Transformations: The Persistence of Aldus Manutius," 2007 Annual Conference at UCLA

  • New Members

Fall 2006 (no. 160) View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF 245K / 4 Pages)

  • A Note from the Editor

  • "The Atlantic World of Print in the Age of Franklin" [announcement of September 2006 conference]

  • Verse into Type announcement

  • Chapter news and Announcements

  • Henry Morris to Present "Paper: There Wouldn't Be Any Printing History Without it"

  • Additional APHA Special Publications

  • New Members

Spring 2005 (no. 159) Not available

Winter 2005 (no. 158) (View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF 245K / 4 Pages)

  • Picture This: The Art & Technique of Illustration [report on October 2004 conference]

  • Announcements from Jane Rogers Siegel and Shari Degraw

Fall 2004 (no. 157) (View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF 245K / 4 Pages, paginated 1-2 and 15-16)

  • Aux Armes! [Virginia Smith on the French Imprimerie Nationale]

  • Printing Museums [editorial on the state of museums in the U.S.]

  • Omitted: Membership Directory [pages 3-12 were a pull-out membership directory--not available in downloadable version]

  • Read On! [Theo Rehak's new book]

  • 2004 Contributing Members

  • Hold the Date! [2004 Lieberman Lecture at Newberry Library]

  • APHA's thanks

 

Summer 2004 (no. 156) (View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF 245K / 4 Pages)

  • Ten Speakers for APHA's Fall Conference, "Picture This"

  • Finding Printed Material Online (not including eBay)

  • Beach Reading

  • Desperately Seeking a Designer

Spring 2004 (no. 155) (View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF 299K / 6 Pages)

  • Upbeat annual meeting. Reports of the Officers.

  • Picture This: Annual Conference (preliminary announcement)

  • Report of the President

  • Profiles: Terry Belanger, Kathleen Walkup

  • New Officers

  • APHA Awards: presentation and speech summaries of Donald W. Krummel and the American Typecasting Fellowship (Rich Hopkins, accepting)

  • Information exchange from the annual meeting (Gardner LePoer of the Museum of Printing in North Andover, MA; and Helena Wright of the Smithsonian Institution

  • APHA Fellowship: Susana Ashton

  • New members

  •  

Winter 2003 (no. 154) (View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF 245K / 6 Pages)

  • 27th Annual Conference a Blast. Talks by Haven Hawley, Joy Kiser, Zak Sitter, David Pankow, Kathleen Walkup, Kay Michael Kramer, Julia Gardner, Jared Ash, Marcella D. Genz, Robert J. Milevski, Graham Twemlow, Alan M. Levitt, Raymond Nichols, Bill Deering and Sydney J. Shep

  • Lieberman Lecture: Making Books: Rocky Stinehour going Back and Forth with Jerry Kelly 

Autumn 2003 (no. 153) (View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF 245K / 6 Pages)

  • Apply for the APHA Fellowship in Printing History

  • The 2003 J. Ben Lieberman Memorial Lecture: 'Making Books: Rocky Stinehour Going Back and Forth with Jerry Kelly' [notice]

  • Chapter news: Southern California, Northern California, New England, New York, Student Chapter

  • Printing equipment on eBay

  • APHA Conference: New Work in Printing History [notice]

  • News of the St. Bride Printing Library

  • In Memoriam: Bernard McTigue

  • Exhibition

Summer 2003 (no. 152) (View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF 262K / 6 Pages)

  • Digital Monticello [program review by Paul Shaw]

  • Finding Your Type Online, by Vincent Golden

  • Contributing Members

  • More Results from the APHA Member Survey

  • In Memoriam: Kenneth Auchincloss

  • Meet Your Board Members (Susan M. Allen, Julia Blakely, Nina Schneider, Suzanne Michaeu Tinnian)

  • New Members

  • APHA Calendar: Conference and Lieberman Lecture

  • 2004 Membership Dues to Increase

Spring 2003 (no. 151) (View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF 415K / 6 Pages)

  • APHA Annual Meeting report

  • APHA Annual Conference Call for Papers, "New Work in Printing History"

  • Meet Your Board Members (Stephen Crook, Sara Stone)

  • The APHA Assortment: Results from the APHA Survey

  • APHA's First Fellowship Award

  • New Members

Winter 2002 (no. 150) (View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF 406K / 4 Pages)

  • Lieberman Lecture a Success

  • Annual meeting [N.B. The date of the annual meeting should be January 25. -Ed.]

  • Lecture on the New Digital "Monticello" Type

  • Meet Your Trustees, Part 2 (Eric Holzenberg, Martin Hutner, Stephen Pekich)

  • In Memoriam (Abe Lerner, Chandler B. Grannis, Dwight Agner, Miriam Steinert)

  • Other Publications Available

  • New Members

Fall 2002 (no. 149) (View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF 540K / 6 Pages)

  • A Report from SHARP's London conference

  • A Visit to the Type Museum

  • Meet Your Trustees, Part 2 (Georgia Barnhill, Jerry Kelly, Marcus McCorison, Theo Rehak, David Whitesell)

  • APHA On the Road

  • Other APHA Publications available

  • New Members

  • Oral History Project

  • Contributing Members
     

Summer 2002 (no. 148) (Not available online)

  • Jack Stauffacher in conversation with Matthew Carter Book (2002 Lieberman Lecture)

  • APHA on the Road events

  • APHA New England

  • Meet Your Officers (Martin Antonetti, Paul Romaine, Mark Samuels Lasner, Michael Peich, Deirdre Stam, Theo Rehak and Jane Rogers Siegel)

  • New members

Spring 2002 (no. 147) (View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF 540K / 6 Pages)

  • New Publication Ready for Release [Spiral Press Bibliography]

  • APHA Annual Meeting: Officers' Reports, 2002 Awards

  • Chapter News: APHA New York, APHA

  • APHA On the Road

  • APHA Board

  • Treasurer's Report

  • New Members

  • Errata

Winter 2001 (no. 146) (View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF 729K / 8 Pages) (Misidentified as Winter 2002 in masthead)

  • Drucker Delivers 2001 Lieberman Lecture

  • APHA Annual Meeting Set

  • 26th Annual Conference Report "Transatlantic Type" (See Conference page)

  • Marianne Tidcombe, "Cobden-Sanderson and America

  • Terry Belanger, "Westward the Course of Books Takes Its Way"

  • Ron Tyler, "Production of the Great Work" John James Audubon, the Havells, and The Birds of America"

  • Karen Nipps, "Inheritance and Innovation: William Hilliard and the First American University Press"

  • William S. Peterson, "Nineteenth Century Revivals: Typographical and Spiritual"

  • Philip J. Weimerskirch, "Daniel Berkeley Updike and England: Some Little-Known Connections"

  • Ken Botnick, co-host: Open House at the Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Studio for the Illustrated Book"

  • Contributing Members

  • In Memoriam, Hugh Amory

Fall 2001 (no. 145) (View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF  690K / 4 Pages)

  • "Transatlantic Type" is Theme of Annual Conference (See Conference page)

  • Joel Harvey Remembered

  • Jane Rodgers Siegel Named Editor

  • New Members

  • Calendar

Summer 2001 (no. 144) (View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF  502K / 6 Pages)

  • Annual Conference to take place in St. Louis (N. B latest information is online under APHA's conference)

  • Johanna Drucker to Deliver Lieberman Lecture

  • Chapter Notes: New York, New England, Southern California, Northern California

  • Museum of Printing off the Beaten Path 

  • Printing History Receives Award

  • Advertising Manager Named

  • New Members

  • American Authors as Printers, Part 2 [Mark Twain]

  • "Ink, Type and Serendipity" (Review by Lowell Bodger of the Lieberman lecture by  John Randel)

  • Calendar

  • Oral History Update

Spring 2001 (no. 143) (View or Download as Adobe Acrobat PDF 671K / 8 Pages)

  • "New Light on Early Printing" (Review by Stephen O. Saxe of the January 21, 2001 lecture by  Paul Needham and Blaise Agüera y Arcas)

  • Chapter Notes: New England, Southern California

  • Jack Golden Found 

  • "Ink, Type and Serendipity" (Review by Lowell Bodger of the Lieberman lecture by  John Randel)

  • In Memoriam: Elizabeth Lieberman

  • The Printer and the Poet: A Book Review by Kathleen Walkup

  • Treasurer's Report

  • Annual Meeting report

  • APHA Awards for Individuals and Institutions

  • Calendar

  • APHA Board

Winter 2000 (no. 142) (View or Download as Acrobat PDF 690K / 8 pages)

  • Conference Report: On the Digital Brink: APHA's 25th Annual Conference

  • Robert Bringhurst, "The Voice in the Mirror"

  • Gallery Talks by Richard Zauft and Dennis Ichiyama (see the APHA 2000 Keepsake online) 

  • Roger Easton, Robert Johnston, and Keith Knox, "Image Restoration of the Dead Sea Scrolls"

  • Kay Amert, "The Digital Comparison of Letterforms"

  • Chet Grycz, "Perdurability: Digital Books and Beatrice Warde's Vision of Permanence"

  • Frank Romano, "Time Capsules: Preserving the History of Print"

  • Douglas Holleley, "Demonstration: Re-reading the Book Digitally ”

  • Logo Competition

  • Chapter Notes from New England, Northern California, and New York

  • Oral History Project

  • "American Authors as Printers, Part I" [Walt Whitman]

  • Calendar.

Fall 2000 (no. 141) (View or Download as Acrobat PDF 300K)

  • On the Digital Brink: APHA's 25th Annual Conference

  • Chapter Notes from New England, Northern California, and Chesapeake

  • 2000 J. Ben Lieberman Memorial Lecture

  • New Production Editor Begins Work; Copy Editor Still Needed

  • Calendar.

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