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Accepting Applications for the 2024 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History

APHA is accepting applications for the 2024 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History. This award of up to $2,000 is available for research in any area of the history of printing, including all the arts and technologies relevant to printing, the book arts, and letter forms. [Read more]

2024 APHA Award Winners

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More Zephyrus Images

Alastair Johnston

Printing History 33 ran the article “Subversive Letterpress: The Art of Zephyrus Image” by Alastair Johnston. That brief overview, based on his bibliography, showed only four images. Shortly after publication, I saw some framed Zephyrus Image prints owned by Daniel Gardiner Morris of The Arm Letterpress, who shared the digital files below and for which Mr. Johnston supplied captions. —Editor  [Read more]

Reading Rogers

Andrew Hoyem

The Pleasures of A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick [Laurence Sterne], Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1905. [Read more]

Archiving as a Tool for Rural Jobbing Printers in Late 1800s Great Britain Through the Lens of the C. Armstrong/E. Pruddah Collection

Andrew Byrom

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2023 Conference Registration is Closed

 

Registration for APHA’s 48th annual conference  “The Printed Weird: Book History from the Margins” is now closed. Please see the program page.


2023 Lieberman Lecturer: Harry Reese

From Gutenberg to the Gallery: Five Decades of Print and Book Art From Turkey Press

December 14, 5–7, PST
The LetterForm Archive
2325 3rd St Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA 94107
Eventbrite registration for in-person and hybrid attendees.
 

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Printing History 33 in the Mail

APHA members will soon receive Printing History 33. Guest editor, and APHA’s Vice President for Programs, Danelle Moon developed this 80-page issue from the theme of APHA’s 2022 conference Making Artistic Noise: Printing and Social Activism from the 1960s to the Present. Ms. Moon was ably advised by the Editorial Committee: Josef Beery, Sam Lemley, Paul Shaw, and Irene Tichenor. [Read more]

ISO: Publisher C[harles?] S. Webb

From the Contact form:

I’m looking for more information about the publisher C[harles?] S. Webb, in particular anything that relates to the Narrative of the capture, sufferings, and miraculous escape of Mrs. Eliza Fraser that he printed in 1837. Information about his career, other books he printed/published, or any suggestions as to where I can find more would be really helpful. Thank you so much! —Alice Procter

Hebrew Typecasting Pilot Program at Bixler Letterfoundry: Recap!

Shani Avni and Richard Kegler

Evening tour of The Bixler Press & Letterfoundry.

The pilot program for the Hebrew Type Intensive was launched in the last week of July 2023, at The Press and Letterfoundry of Michael and Winifred Bixler, Skaneateles, New York. A four-day hands-on workshop, it provided an in-depth experience of historical aspects of Jewish printing: type casting, typesetting, and letterpress printing. As this was the inaugural event, we were curious to see where this adventure would take us. One thing that was clear from very early on: it was about to be truly intensive, just as the title promised.   [Read more]