Celebrate printing history with APHA in San Francisco! We invite you to a weekend of engaging talks, exclusive tours, and a dynamic program of presentations—available both in-person and online. For more information and registration, please visit https://printinghistory.
APHA invites submissions for paper and panel proposals for its annual conference, “Enduring Impressions: Private Presses and Their Legacies,” to be held in person at San Francisco State University from October 23–25, 2025. [Read more]
From the Contact form:
I’m working on a booklet about a weekly newspaper in Sherrard, IL. In 1898, they purchased a used Vaughn’s Ideal Hand Press. I’ve been able to find very little information about the press. I was wondering whether you have any information on it or could point me to an article or book, etc. that discusses it.
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The American Printing History Association is pleased to announce that Maggie Erwin is the new social media coordinator. She will post content on APHA’s Facebook and Instagram accounts and may initiate new accounts as she sees fit. [Read more]
APHA members will soon receive Printing History 36. This 80-page issue is the first one developed by editor Sam Regal who was advised by the Editorial Committee: Johanna Drucker, Sam Lemley, Aaron Pratt, Irene Tichenor, and Brittney Washington. Printing History 36 feature articles on: [Read more]
Printing History is pleased to announce an issue highlighting community printing and publishing practices. We invite author submissions that approach print history expansively, with a focus on small press, DIY, ephemeral, fringe, and community-focused materials that challenge mainstream notions of the print historical record. We particularly welcome submissions spotlighting the printing practices of marginalized communities. [Read more]
The committee reviewed thirty-one applications for the 2025 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History, MSL Fellowship for short. The range of projects and varied experience brought to each provided a fascinating insight into the current state of research in what is broadly understood as print history. Reaching a decision to make one award has many challenges, and the committee considers many factors—feasibility (can the project be done and does the researcher have the background to realize the project), impact (will the outcomes be of value to the field), and overall merit (will the work advance our historical knowledge). [Read more]
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]
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.