You are cordially invited to our annual meeting on Saturday, January 27, 2024, 2 p.m. (EST) to conduct APHA’s business and celebrate excellence in printing history. [Read more]

The American Printing History Association is pleased to introduce members who have agreed to serve as officers and Trustees on the APHA board. This dynamic group of talented people will grow our organization and keep APHA thriving. We’re excited they are joining us.

The Nominating Committee
E. Haven Hawley, Chair
 Richard Minsky; Robert McCament; James Ascher; and Hosea Baskin

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Dear APHA member and friend,

You are cordially invited to our annual meeting on Saturday, January 27, 2024, at 2 p.m. (EST) to conduct APHA’s business and celebrate excellence in printing history. For the first time since the pandemic, our 2024 annual meeting will take place in-person in New York City, at the end of “Bibliography Week” as had been our custom for decades. We will meet at the Center for Book Arts in Manhattan (28 West 27th Street, 3rd  Floor), which like APHA will be celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in 2024. We are very excited about this collaboration with the CBA! [Read more]

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]

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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]

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]

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

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

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