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Save-the-Dates

Friday, 25 October, 2019 9:00 pm
Annual Conference

University of Maryland, College Park, APHA

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Breaking APHA News

Chesapeake | Beloved chapter member and retired typographer Roland Hoover, 89, died Nov. 7

RIP: Ricky Jay American magician, actor, bibliophile, and writer. APHA 2016 conference keynote speaker | NYT obit

RIP: Lili Wronker, Calligrapher and Illustrator, 94. Former APHA trustee.

Member News

Ron Gordon: “The Twilight of Letterpress: New York in the 80s” a talk at the TDC

Michael Russem opens Katherine Small Gallery a noncommercial (totally real) gallery dedicated to small exhibits about graphic design & typography.

Jerry Kelly: Kickstarter to publish Zapf biography

Erin Schreiner: “A Peek at Famous Readers’ Borrowing Records From a Private New York Library“

Steve Saxe’s “The Bruce Pivotal Typecaster and its Influence on nineteenth-century Typography” in Journal of the Printing Historical Society, Issue 24

Recent Publications

Douglas Charles, Bed & Platen Book Printing Machines. Free PDF.

Hala Auji, Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut

Of Man & Machine: 15 min. DVD of the 1862 Hoe Large Cylinder Newspaper Press at Black Creek Pioneer Village. History, restoration and operation. $15 USD. Email or 416-736-1733.

Gerald Lange: 5th ed of Printing Digital Type on the Hand-Operated Flatbed Cylinder Press

Claire Bolton, The Fifteenth Century Printing Practices of Johann Zainer, Ulm, 1473–1478

Exhibitions & Events

Video for: Printing Revolution. 1450-1500, Fifty Years that Changed Europe, Venice 1 Sept. 2018 – 7 Jan.2019

Call for Papers/Submissions

The Legacy Press seeks essays for a new book series on printing history. Volume I will be dedicated to women printers and printmakers, as well as the role of gender in the printing arts. PDF

Workshops & Short Courses

Open seats in Rare Book School’s Spring and Summer courses: The History of 19th- & 20th-Century Typography & Printing, taught by John Kristensen & Katherine McCanless Ruffin; Introduction to the History of Bookbinding, taught by Karen Limper-Herz; Japanese Prints and Illustrated Books in Context, taught by Julie Nelson Davis; The History of Books and Printing in Korea, taught by Beth McKillop

Crowd Funding

Kickstarter: Tiny Type Museum and Time Capsule

Fellowships, Grants & Residencies

Linda Hall Library 2019-20 Fellowships in history of science & related STS fields. Kansas City, MO.

2019 Cary Collection Short-Term Summer Research Fellowship

Jobs & Opportunities

Library of Congress: Curator of American History in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Announcement

Tenure-track opening for a candidate with a publishing background and a PhD in English or related field. University of Tampa

Hamilton Wood type seeks an Executive Administrative Director

Research Aids

APHA’s History of Printing Timeline

The African-American Press Timeline: 1827 to 1895

American Typeface Design Patents, 1842-1899

The Atlas of Early Printing

Circuitous Root: Typefounding, Lettering, & Printing

Early Modern Frisket Sheets

Graphics Atlas

The North American Hand Press Database

NYPL Public Domain Collections

Printers’ & Publishers’ Marks

Rare Book School Advance Reading Lists

Standard Citation Forms for Rare Materials

Vintage Type & Printing Equipment Catalogues

Women in Book History

Web & Other Media

Propelled Pasteboards, a blog devoted to the history of custom-printed playing cards (aka throwouts).

BBC-World Service: Sat., Sept. 2 First Impressions: The Printing Press. Interviews with John Man, Cristina Dondi, Micheal Bashkar, and Hala Auji

Eric Gill proofs and holdings at U. Florida

Australian feature film “Ladies in Black” includes sequence of a Linotype operator ca. 1959 shot at the Penrith Print Museum

Podcasts from the Printerverse

Collecting

Video of author and translator Burton Raffel’s 16,000 volume private library

Vintage stationery featuring Manhattan buildings sought

US Postal Service commemorates the graphic arts posters of the WPA

In Memoriam

Jack Stauffacher, 96, typographer and master printer, Nov. 16, 2017

Miscellany

U.S. Senate Confirms Carla Hayden as 14th Librarian of Congress

First Folio discovered on Scottish island

The Last Hot Metal Man Retires from NYT

Back issues of Printing History
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