An Interview with Tia Blassingame of Primrose Press Sarah Werner, “Working Toward a feminist Printing History” Sonia Farmer, “Palimpsest of Paradise: The Craftsman Press Archive” K.A. Wisniewski. “Compositors of Type: Mary Katharine Goddard, Frances Hopkinson, and Design in Eighteenth-Century America” Todd Samuelson, “Imperfect Iterations: Duplicate Iconography in Wood Engraving Blocks” Georgia Deal, “Paper and Print: A Rich History and Future”
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Monique Lallier: A Retrospective [Fran Durako] Maryam Fanni, Matilda Flodmark, and Sara Kaaman, editors, The Natural Enemies of Books [Brooke Sylvia Palmieri] Mark Argetsinger, A Grammar of Typography [Jerry Kelly] Simon Loxley, Emery Walker: Arts, Crafts, and a World in Motion and Richard Matthews and Joseph Rosenblum, editors, Printing For Book Production: Emery Walker’s Three Lectures … [George Barnum]
An Interview with Thin Ice Press Nina Schneider, The Printed Intarsia of Erasmus Loya Fuchsia Voremberg, Chinook Jargon and Itinerant Mimeography in the Pacific Northwest Ellen Mazur Thomson, To Feast with One’s Eyes: Colour Printing in Nineteenth-Century Cookbooks
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James Raven, What is the History of the Book? [Katherine M. Ruffin] Hendrik D.L. Vervliet, Robert Granjon, Letter-Cutter, 1513—1590: Oeuvre Catalogue [Brooke Sylvia Palmieri]
An Interview with Bruce Kennet, author of W.A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design, published by the Letterform Archive in 2017 Lynne Farrington, A Very Good Book Indeed: Selling Bibles by Subscription in Nineteenth-Century America Jeffrey Makala, Spiritual Machinery’: The American Bible Society and the Mechanisms of Large-Scale Printing in the Early Nineteenth Century
An Interview with Douglas Charles, Journeyman Printer Amanda Stuckey, Tactile Literacy Erin Schreiner, Printing the Screenplay in Hollywood and Beyond Amelia J. Hugill-Fontanel, Multitudinous Tints: An Inventor’s Pursuit of Instantaneous Multicolor Printing Paul Shaw’s response to Jerry Kelly’s review of Revival Type: Digital Typefaces Inspired by the Past (2017) published in Printing History 23 (Winter 2018).
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Hala Auji, Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut. [Radha Dalal] Douglas W. Charles, Bed & Platen Book Printing Machines: American and British Streams of Ingenious Regression in the Quest for Print Quality. [Stephen Sword] Caroline Archer-Parré and Malcolm Dick, eds. John Baskerville: Art and Industry of the Enlightenment. [Paul Shaw]
Interview with Heiba Lamara James T. Cameron and George D. Barnum, Invisible Writing Made Visible: The U. S. Government Printing Office and Prisoner of War Stationery in the Second World War. Lisa Unger Baskin, The Myth of Some Unconventional Women. Amy Hildreth Chen, Michelle Chesner, and Shannon K. Supple, Roundtable Discussion: Teaching Printing History with Codex Conquest.
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Emma Smith, The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio. [Jeffrey Mifflin] Emma Smith, Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book. [Jeffrey Mifflin] Paul Shaw, Revival Type: Digital Typefaces Inspired by the Past. [Jerry Kelly] Misha Beletsky and Jerry Kelly, The Noblest Roman: A History of the Centaur Types of Bruce Rogers. [Brooke Palmieri]
Jesse Ryan Erickson, An Aesthetic History of the Ouija Board E. Haven Hawley, William Berry: Publisher, Scoundrel, and Spiritualist Marvin J. Heller, The Lion Motif on Early Hebrew Title Pages and Pressmarks
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Mark R. Godburn, Nineteen-Century Dust Jackets [Jeffrey Mifflin] William J. Kiesel, Printers Devices in Esoteric Publishing [Kim Schwenk]
An interview with Kseniya Thomas Caroline Archer-Parré, Leonard Jay: A Pioneer of Printing Education John Kristensen, The Merrymount Janson Type and Matrices John Labovitz, The Electric Typesetter: The Origins of Computing in Typography
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Claire M. Bolton, The Fifteenth-Century Printing Practices of Johann Zainer, Ulm, 1473–1478 [Daniel Traister] Ellen Mazur Thomson, Aesthetic Tracts: Innovation in Late-Nineteenth-Century Book Design [Reviewed by Jeffrey Mifflin] Richard-Gabriel Rummonds, Fantasies and Hard Knocks: My Life as a Printer [Katherine M. Ruffin]< Richard Kegler, The Aries Press of Eden, New York [Jonathan Senchyne]
Donald Lankiewicz, “Mein Kampf in America: How Hitler Came to be Published in the United States” Gordon Neavill “The Illustrated Modern Library Series”
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Simon Loxley, Printer’s Devil: The Life and Work of Frederic Warde [Reviewed by Jeffrey Mifflin] Gill Partington and Adam Symth, Ed, Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary [Reviewed by Jeffrey Mifflin]
William T. La Moy, An Autographed Letter (Signed) from Frederic W. Goudy to [Alpheus] Sherwin Cody Dated 18 August 1935 William T. La Moy, Frederic W. Goudy’s Formal Tribute to Bertha M. Goudy Elizabeth Savage, The Mystery of the “Scrappy Fragments”: Untangling Robert Steele’s Discovery of Frisket Sheets
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John Bidwell, American Paper Mills, 1690-1832: A Directory of the Paper Trade with Notes on Products, Watermarks, Distribution Methods, and Manufacturing Techniques [Reviewed by Sydney Berger] Frank Romano, History of the Linotype Company [Reviewed by Jeffrey Mifflin] Richard L. Hopkins, Tolbert Lanston and the Monotype: The Origin of Digital Typsetting [Reviewed by Jeffrey Mifflin]
Daniel W. Bly, Who Was Paul Messerschmidt? Marvin J. Heller, The Eagle Motif in Sixteenth- and Seventeeth-Century Hebrew Books A Short Essay and a Letter by Christopher Morely on Publishing Matters Transcribed and Annotated William T. La Moy
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Sue Rainey, Creating A World on Paper: Harry Fenn’s Career in Art. [Reviewed by Jeffrey Mifflin]
John Goree, The Woodblocks of Vesalius and the Printings: From the Renaissance to the Modern Era Todd Samuelson, Still Life
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Keri Yousi, Balzac, Grandville, and the Rise of Book Illustration [William T. La Moy] Frances Wood and Mark Barnard, The Diamond Sutra: The Story of the World’s Earliest Dated Printed Book [Hala Auji]
David Hanson, Edaward Bierstadt, Color Photography and Color Printing William T. La Moy, Frederic Fairchild Sherman and his Goudy Typefaces Gwido Zlatkes, One Hundred and Twenty Thousand “Duplicator Hours”: Underground Printing in Communist Poland, 1976-1989
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Patrick Leary, The “Punch” Brotherhood: Table Talk and Print Culture in Mid-Victorian London [Reviewed by Jeffrey Mifflin]
Joan Boudreau, The Portable Press and Field Printing During the American Civil War.
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Martin Hopkinson, Ex Libris: The Art of Bookplates [Reviewed by Jeffrey Mifflin] David Pearson, Books as History: The Importance of Books Beyond Their Texts [Reviewed by Jeffrey Mifflin]
Betty Bright, History as Fable Gary H. Price, Spaces Jonathan M. Yeager, Samuel Kneeland of Boston, Colonial Bookseller, Printer and Publisher of Religion
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William S. Peterson and Sylvia Holton Peterson, The Kelmscott Chaucer: A Census Jerry Kelly, The Art of the Book in the Twentieth Century: A Study of Eleven Influential Book Designers from 1900 to 2000
William Berkson, Readability and Revival: The Case of Caslon. Betsy Davids, From Palm Leaf to Book: A South Asia Quest. Marvin J. Heller, Behold, You Are Beautiful, My Love: The Use of Ornamental Frames in Hebrew Incunabula.
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Michael F. Suarez, S.J., and H.R. Woudhuysen, eds. The Oxford Companion to the Book [Reviewed by Paul S. Koda] Hendrik D.L. Vervliet, French Renaissance Printing Types: A Conspectus[Reviewed by Alastair Johnston] Matthew McLennan Young, Field & Tuer, the Leadenhall Press [Reviewed by Alastair Johnston] Alan Loney, The Books to Come Martin Hopkinson, Ex Libris: The Art of Bookplates
Michael Winship, Pirates, Shipwrecks, and Comic Almanacs: Charles Ellms Packages Books in Nineteenth-Century America. Alastair M. Johnston, A Glance at the First Century of California Printing. Ellen Mazur Thomson, The Cornhill Booklet, 1900–1914.
Susan Ashbrook, Two Portraits of Cape Cod: Amelia Watson and Clare Leighton. Matthew McLennan Young, The Rise and Fall of the Printers’ International Specimen Exchange. Andrew M. Stauffer, Legends of the Mummy Paper.
Reviews
Yosef Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America 1735–1926: A History and Annotated Bibliography. [Scott-Martin Kosofsky] Richard Benson, The Printed Picture. [Martin Antonetti] Roberta A. Gross and Mary Kelley, eds., A History of the Book in America. Volume 2: An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790–1840. [Paul S. Koda]
John Kristensen, The Book [Broadside, Bookplate, Business Card, and Birth Announcement] Beautiful. David Shields, Considering Rob Roy Kelly’s American Wood Type Collection.
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Jay T. Last, The Color Explosion: Nineteenth Century American Lithography. [Alastair Johnston] Kate van Winkle Keller, Printers of Ballads, Books, and Newspapers: Biographical Notes and Checklists for Nathaniel Coverly, Sr., Nathaniel Coverly, Jr., and Joseph White. [Paul S. Koda] Nancy Finlay, ed. Picturing Victorian America: Prints by the Kellogg Brothers of Hartford, Connecticut, 1830–1880. [Paul S. Koda]
Barbara Heritage, Collecting Litho Jam Jar Labels and Teaching Wood-Engraved Elephants: Rare Book School’s Printing Surfaces Collection. Jerry Kelly, Hermann Zapf at Ninety Richard L. Hopkins, Saving Printing History Outside the Box.
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Giancarlo Petrella, Uomini, torchi e libri nel Rinascimento. [Paul F. Gehl] T. H. Howard-Hill, The British Book Trade, 1475–1890: A Bibliography.[WP] Hendrik D. L. Vervliet, The Paleo-Typography of the French Renaissance: Selected Papers on Sixteenth-Century Typefaces.[Alastair Johnston] Carl F. Kaestle and Janice A. Radway, eds., A History of the Book in America, Volume 4: Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880–1940. [Paul S. Koda] Doug Clouse, MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan: Typographic Tastemakers of the Late Nineteenth Century. [Alastair Johnston] Jerry Kelly, The First Flowering: Bruce Rogers at the Riverside Press, 1896–1912. [WP] Elizabeth Evenden, Patents, Pictures and Patronage: John Day and the Tudor Book Trade. [WP] Robert Oldham, A Field Guide to North American Hand Presses and Their Manufacturers. [WP] Rob Banham and Fiona Ross, eds., Non-Latin Typefaces.[WP] Donald Farren and August A. Imholtz, Jr., eds., The Baltimore Bibliophiles at Fifty, 1954–2004. [WP] Margaret Willes, Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books.[WP]
H. George Fletcher, Aldus, UCLA, and Me. Nile Green, The Development of Arabic-Script Typography in Georgian Britain.
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Christopher Burke, Active Literature: Jan Tschichold and New Typography. [Jerry Kelly] Alan Bartram, Typeforms: A History. [Alastair Johnston] Scott E. Casper, Jeffrey D. Groves, Stephen W. Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship, eds., A History of the Book in America (vol. 3). [Paul S. Koda] Neil Macmillan, An A–Z of Type Designers. [WP] Graham Hudson, The Design and Printing of Ephemera in Britain and America 1720–1890. [Alastair Johnston] Richard Landon, Humane Letters: Bruce Rogers, Designer of Books and Artist. [WP] Robin Dodd, From Gutenberg to Opentype: An Illustrated History of Type from the Earliest Letterforms to the Latest Digital Fonts. [WP] John Buchanan-Brown, Early Victorian Illustrated Books: Britain, France, and Germany, 1820–1860. [WP]
Gabe Smedresman, Geofroy Tory’s Champ Fleury in the Context of the Renaissance Reconstruction of the Roman Capital Alphabet. Joan Boudreau, Publishing the U.S. Exploring Expedition: The Fruits of the Glorious Enterprise.
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Scott-Martin Kosofsky, ed. The SP Century: Boston’s Society of Printers through One Hundred Years of Change. [Martin Antonetti] Peter Holliday, Edward Johnston: Master Calligrapher. [Jerry Kelly] Frans A Janssen. Technique and Design in the History of Printing. [Alastair Johnson] Alice H.R.H. Beckwith, Illustrating the Good Life: The Pissarros’ Eragny Press, 1894-1914. A Catalogue of an Exhibition of Books, Prints and Drawings Related to the Work of the Press. [WP]
Lance Hidy, Calligraphy and Letterpress in Design Education. Matthew J. Shaw, Keeping Time in the Age of Franklin: Almanacs and the Atlantic World.
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Tyrus Harmsen and Stephen Tabor, The Plantin Press of Saul and Lillian Marks: A Bibliography. [Alastair Johnson] Betty Bright, No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America. [WP] Richard B. Doubleday, Jan Tschichold, Designer: The Penguin Years. [WP] James Mosley, Handmade Type: Thoughts on the Preservation of Typographic Materials. [Stephen O. Saxe] Simon Loxley, Type: The Secret History of Letters. [WP] Moira F. Harris and Leo J. Harris, Minnesota on Paper: Collecting our Printed History. [WP] Virginia Smith, Forms in Modernism: The Unity of Typography, Architecture and the Design Arts. [WP] Mathieu Lommen, Sem Hartz and the Making of Linotype Juliana. [WP] Don Hauser, Printers of the Streets and the Lanes of Melbourne. [WP] Jenny Uglo, Nature’s Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick. [WP]
Gregory Graalfs, Photography in Reproduction: Its Role in the Settlement of California. Kitty Maryatt, Experience Gutenberg Project: Printing Beorum II at the Scripps College Press.
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Christopher de Hamel and Joel Silver, Disbound and Dispersed: The Leaf Book Considered. [WP] Irene Tichenor, No Art without Craft: The Life of Theodore Low DeVinne, Printer. [WP] James N. Green and Peter Stallybrass, Benjamin Franklin, Printer and Writer. [Calhoun Winton] John A. Lane, Early Type Specimens in the Plantin-Moretus Museum.[Alastair Johnston] Lawrence Wallis, George W. Jones: Printer Laureate. [WP] Richard Southall, Printer’s Type in the Twentieth Century: Manufacturing and Design Methods. [WP] Jane Pomeroy, Alexander Anderson: Wood-engraver and Illustrator.[Alastair Johnston] Ari Rafaeli, Book Typography. [WP] Michael Mitchell and Susan Wightman, Book Typography: A Designer’s Manual. [WP] Maureen Watry, The Vale Press: Charles Ricketts, A Publisher in Ernest.[WP] Type and Typography: Highlights from Matrix, the Review for Printers and Bibliophiles. [WP] Fred Smeijers, Type Now: A Manifesto, plus Work So Far. [Alastair Johnston] John A. Lane and Robert Slimbach, Garamond Premier Pro: AContemporary Adaptation. [WP] Reynolds Stone, The Albion Press. [WP]
NB: This issue has a numbering error on the cover. It is not Volume 26 no. 2
Helena Wright, The Future of Printing Museums Richard Flint, ‘A Great Industrial Art’: Circus Posters, Business Risks, and the Origins of Color Letterpress Printing in America William S. Peterson, Nineteenth-Century Revivals, Typographic and Spiritual David Pankow, Facing the Unfolded and Visible Book of the Future
Charles Creesy, Monticello: The History of a Typeface Amelia Hugill-Fontanel, Arts et Metiers Graphiques: The Graphic Design Magazine of the Deberny et Peignot Type Foundry Ellen Mazur Thomson, The Graphic Forms Lectures
David R. Whitesell, Thomas Jefferson and the Book Arts Philip J. Weimerskirch, The Beginning of Color Printing in America David A. Hanson, John Carbutt and the Woodburytype in America
