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Printing History OS 47

Volume 24, No. 1

2003

 

Peter Holliday, Edward Johnston & Robert Bridges, 1901–1926: A Phonetic Alphabet in the Half Uncial Script.
Robert D. Harlan, Seven Letters from C. H. St. John Hornby to John Henry Nash.

 

Reviews

Jerry Kelly (reviewer), Marianne Tidcombe, The Doves Press.

Printing History OS 46

Volume 23, No. 2

2003

 

Robert Bringhurt, The Voice in the Mirror.
Kay Amert, Digital Comparison of Letterforms.
Frank Romano, The Phototypesetting Era.

Printing History OS 45

Volume 23, No. 1

2003

 

Donald C. O’Brien, The Early Nineteenth-Century Boston Engraving Trade and the Engravers who Developed it.
J.F. Coakley, Homan Hallock, Punchcutter. Roger Stoddard, For Hugh from Roger. [Tribute for Hugh Amory]

Printing History OS 43/44

Volume 22, No. 1 and 2

 

David Pankow, Editor’s Introduction: The Rise and Fall of ATF.
Jennifer B. Lee, Introduction to the Exhibition.
Type to Print: The Book & The Type Specimen Book.
Jennifer B. Lee, editor, The Bullen Letters.

Printing History OS 42

Volume 21, No. 2

 

Joseph A. Dane, The Huntington Apocalypse Blockbook (Schreiber Editions IV/V) with a Note on Terminology. Kay Amert, A Renaissance Font: Paris, 1516.
Peter K. Fallon, Why the Irish Speak English: The Consequences of One Culture’s Resistance to Technological Change.
Philip J. Weimerskirch, The Rev. Abraham O. Stansbury and the Stansbury Press.
Gerald Lange, Fraternal Offspring: Matthew Carter’s Manutius/Miller.

Printing History OS 41

Volume 21, No. 1

 

Kenneth Auchincloss, The Second Revival; Fine Printing Since World War II.
Martino Mardersteig, The Cento Amici del Libro.
Carol Grossman, The Trianon Press’s William Blake’s Water-colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray.
Sebastian Carter, The Rampant Lions Press-Retrospectus and Prospectus.

Printing History OS 40

Volume 20, No. 2

 

Marvin J. Heller, Mirror-image Monograms as Printers’ Devices on Title Pages of Hebrew Books Printed in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
Richard M. Candee, Illustrating Invention: Nineteenth-century Machine Advertising for the Aikens of Franklin, New Hampshire.
Peter E. Hanff, Way & Williams, Publishers, Chicago, 1895–98.
Alfred W. Baxter, Grabhorn Press Ephemera: The Missing Matter.

Printing History OS 37

Volume 19, No. 1

 

Harold Berliner, Nicolas Barker, Jim Rimmer, & John Dreyfus, Starling Burgess, No Type Designer: A Rebuttal of Some Allegations and Suppositions Made by Mike Parker in his Article “Starling Burgess, Type Designer?” in Printing History 31/32 (1994).
David Pankow, A Face by Any Other Name is Still My Face: A Tale of Type Piracy.

 

Reviews

G. Thomas Tanselle (reviewer), William Tomlinson and Richard Masters, Bookcloth 1823–1980.

Printing History OS 36

Volume 18, No. 2

 

Corban Goble, Mark Twain’s Nemesis: The Paige Compositor.
Robert D. Harlan, Origins of San Francisco Fine Printing Traditions.
Michael Peich, William Everson: Fine Printer.

Printing History OS 35

Volume 18, No. 1

 

Roger E. Stoddard, “Oh, Mr. Jefferson-After All These Years, Why Do We Know So Little about the Books 0f Your Time?”
Paul F. Gehl, The Europeans Are Coming! Or, What’s New in Continental History of the Book: A Review Essay.
Walker Rumble, Strategies of Shopfloor Inclusion: The Gender Politics of Augusta Lewis and Women’s Typographical Union No. 1, 1868–1872.
Corban Goble, Rogers’s Typograph Versus Mergenthaler’s Linotype: The Push and Shove 0f Patents and Priority in the 1890s.

 

Reviews

Jerry Kelly (reviewer), John Dreyfus, Into Print; Selected Writings on Printing History, Typography and Book Production.

Printing History OS 34

Volume 17, No. 2

1995

 

Steven Leuthold, The Book and the Peasant: Visual Representation and Social Change in German Woodcuts, 1521–1525.
Joseph A. Dane, The Curse of the Mummy Paper.
James N. Green, ‘The Cowl knows best what will suit in Virginia’: Parson Weems on Southern Readers.
Jane R. Pomeroy, On the Changes Made in Wood Engravings in the Stereotyping Process. An Index to Printing History, Issues 1–32.

Printing History OS 33

Volume 17, No. 1

1995

 

Terry Belanger, Twenty Years After.
Michael Winship, The Art Preservative: From the History of the Book Back to Printing History.
Marcus A. McCorison, John Mycall-The Ingenious Typographer of Newburyport.
W. Thomas Taylor, The Temper of the Present.

 

Reviews

Barbara Henry (reviewer), Maurice Annenberg, Type Foundries of America and Their Catalogs, (with additions and an introduction by Stephen O. Saxe).
Kathleen A. Walkup (reviewer), Roger Levenson, Women in Printing. Northern California, 1857–1890.

Printing History OS 31/32

Volume 16, No. 1 and Volume XVI no. 2

1994

 

Walter Tracy, Why Egyptian? Lawrence W. Wallis, Type Designs by George W. Jones for the Linotype Machine.
Stephen O. Saxe, “A Small Old Printing Press.”
Patricia A. Cost, Linn Boyd Benton, Morris Fuller Benton, and Typemaking at ATF.
Dermot McGuinne, Victor Hammer-An Irish Connection.
Mike Parker, W. Starling Burgess, Type Designer?

 

Reviews

Dan Carr (reviewer), Theo Rehak, Practical Typecasting.

Printing History OS 30

Volume 15, No. 2

1993

 

H. George Fletcher, The Ideal of the Humanist Scholar-Printer: Aldus in Venice.
Paul A. Cyr, Joel Munsell, Aldus’s Disciple in Albany.
Martin W. Hutner, Daniel Berkeley Updike: Humanist, Scholar, Printer.
Timothy Barrett, Fifteenth-Century Papermaking.
Elizabeth Harris, The Rail Presses.

Printing History OS 29

Volume 15, No. 1

1993

 

Sandra J. Markham, Memento Mori on Silk and Stone: Reuben Manley, Printer, 1818–42.
David A. Hanson, Baron Frederick Wilhelm von Egloffstein: Inventor of the First Commercial Halftone Process in America.
Stephen O. Saxe, The Landis Valley Museum Ramage Press.
Alastair Johnston, Reflections on the Centenary of the Merrymount Press.
Megan L. Benton, C. Volmer Nordlunde: The “Grand Old Man” of Modern Danish Printing.

 

Reviews

Lowell Bodger (reviewer), George Sadek and Maxim Zhukov, Typography: Polyglot. A Comparative Study in Multilingual Typesetting.
Sidney E. Berger (reviewer), William Blades, Numismata Typographica; or the Medallic History of Printing.
John Dreyfus (reviewer), John Rathé, Bibliography of the Typophile Chap Books, 1935–1992.

Printing History OS 28

Volume 14, No. 2

1992

 

Helena E. Wright, Dard Hunter at the Smithsonian.
Walker Rumble, A Time of Giants: Speed Composition in Nineteenth-Century America.
Robert Singerman, Naphtali Judah, New York Bookseller and Stationer.
Morton H. Baker, The Early History of the Thomas Todd Company, 1864–1924

 

Reviews

Jennifer E. Larson (reviewer), John Carter and Graham Pollard, An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, 2d ed. with new material; Nicholas Barker and John Collins, A Sequel to an Enquiry: The Book Forgeries of H. Buxton Forman and T. J. Wise Re-examined; John Collins, The Two Forgers: A Biography of Harry Buxton Forman & Thomas James Wise.
Richard Gabriel Rummonds (reviewer), Stephen O. Saxe, American Iron Hand Presses.

Printing History OS 26/27

Volume 13, No. 2 and Volume 14 no. 1

1991–1992

 

Matthew Carter, Theories of Letterform Construction. Part 1.
Kay Amert, Origins of the French Old-Style: The Roman and Italic Types of Simon de Colines.
Maxwell Whiteman, The Introduction and Spread of Hebrew Type in the United States.
Alastair Johnston, ‘Guard the Mysteries! Constantly Reveal Them!’ The History of Printing as Shown in Type Specimens.
Mark Argetsinger, Adobe Garamond: A Review Jerry Kelly, Adobe Garamond: A New Adaptation of a Sixteenth-Century Type.

 

Reviews

John Bidwell (reviewer), Martin Hutner, The Making of the Book of Common Prayer of 1928.
Peter Van Wingen (reviewer), John Dreyfus, A Typographical Masterpiece: An Account of… the Golden Cockerel Press Edition of ‘The Four Gospels’ in 1931.

Printing History OS 25

Volume 14, No. 1

1991 [Out of Print]

 

Tom Reardon and Kent Kirby, Collotype: Prince of the Printing Processes
A Letter from Bodoni’s Widow. (Edited and translated by Philip J. Weimerskirch.)
Eleanor M. Garvey, Leaves from an Album of Printing and Graphic Arts
Stephen O. Saxe, The Goodman Common Press: The Oldest American-Made Press
Ruth Mortimer, The Bibliographical Society of America: Publishing About Printing
Erich Wronker, A Picture Portfolio of Printing Medals.

 

Reviews

Jerry Kelly (reviewer), Alexander S. Lawson, Anatomy of a Typeface; Printing Types: An Introduction; The Compositor as Artist, Craftsman, and Tradesman.
Herbert H. Johnson (reviewer), A Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Philip Hofer Bequest.
Paul Hayden Duensing (reviewer), Walter Wilkes, Das Schriftgeissen … Eine Dokumentation

Printing History OS 24

Volume 13, No. 2

1990
[N.B. Volume 13 no. 1 appeared as Whole Number 26–27]

 

Hugh Amory, ‘Gods Altar Needs Not our Pollishings’: Revisiting the Bay Psalm Book.
Margaret Lane Ford, A Widow’s Work: Ann Franklin of Newport, Rhode Island.
Roderick Stinehour, Joseph Blumenthal.

 

Reviews

Corban Goble (reviewer), Carl Schlesinger, ed., The Biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler; A New Edition.
Alexander S. Lawson (reviewer), D.J.R. Bruckner, Frederic Goudy.

Printing History OS 23

Volume 12, No. 1

1990 [Out of Print]
[N.B. Volume 12 no. 2 appeared as Whole Number 26–27]

 

Sidney E. Berger, Innovation and Diversity Among the Green Family of Printers.
Susan M. Allen, The Peculiar Defense of Daniel Fowle.
Arthur W. Rushmore, When Noah Was A Pup.
Stephen O. Saxe, “Franklin” Common Press.
Roger Chartier, Histoire de l’édition française.
Frederic Brewer, Mr. Artzt’s Western Lever: A Hitherto Unreported Printing Press.

 

Reviews

Chandler Grannis (reviewer), Bradbury Thompson: The Art of Graphic Design.
Marvin J. Taylor (reviewer), John Feather, A Dictionary of Book History.

Printing History OS 22

Volume 11, No. 2

1989

 

In Memoriam Bernard Brussel-Smith. With contributions by James Fraser, Henry Pitz and Bernard Brussel-Smith
Elizabeth Harris, Press-builders in Philadelphia, 1776–1850.
Stephen O. Saxe, Ramage Proof Press.
Jennifer B. Lee, “Our Infant Manufactures”: Early Typefounding in Philadelphia.
Sarah Jordan Miller, Producing Documents for Congress and the Nation: Government Printing in the United States, Past and Present. PART II. Reviews

 

Reviews

Martin Hutner (reviewer), Fünf Jahrhunderte Buchillustration, Meisterwerke der Buchgrapik, aus der Bibliothek Otto Schäfer…

Printing History OS 21

Volume 11, No. 1

1989

 

Philip J. Weimerskirch, Lithographic Stone in America.
Irene Tichenor, Theodore De Vinne: Unlikely Leader.
Sarah Jordan Miller, Producing Documents for Congress and the Nation: Government Printing in the United States, Past and Present. PART I

 

Reviews

James Fraser (reviewer), William B. Todd and Ann Bowden, Tauchnitz International Editions in English 1841–1955; A Bibliographical History
Szilvia Szmuk (reviewer). How to Operate a Book. Video.

Printing History OS 20

Volume 10, No. 2

1988

 

In Memoriam Stephen Harvard.
Clifford A. Harvey, Before Rosebud was a Sled: Documentation and Reprinting of Early 19th Century Commercial Wood Engravings from the GramLee Collection.
Gay Walker, Printing for the United States: Meriden Gravure and the U. S. Government.
Joseph Dunlap, Emery Walker, Oscar Wilde and May Morris, Emery Walker and “Letterpress Printing”: A Centennial Celebration.
Roderick Cave, The Stockdale Sisters Revisited: Women Printers and Editors in the West Indies. [With a rebuttal by John A. Lent]

 

Reviews

Joseph Dunlap (reviewer), Peter Stansky, Redesigning the World; William Morris, the 1880s, and the Arts and Crafts.

Printing History OS 19

Volume 10, No. 1

1988

 

Charlotte K. and August E. Brunsman, Wright & Wright, Printers: The “Other” Career of Wilbur and Orville.
David Pankow, Dungeons and Dragon’s Blood: The Development of Late 19th and Early 20th Century Platemaking Processes.
John A. Lent, Pioneer Women Editors–The Stockdale Sisters of Bermuda.

 

Reviews

Renate Raecke (reviewer), Vom Schriftgiessen (Of Typefounding). Porträt der Firma D. Stempel …
James H. Fraser (reviewer), Colin Franklin, The Ashendene Press.
William S. Brockman (reviewer), Donald C. Dickinson, Dictionary of American Book Collectors.
William S. Brockman (reviewer), Jeanne Somers, Index to “The Dolphin” and “The Fleuron”.
Chandler B. Grannis (reviewer), Matthew J. Bruccoli, The Fortunes of Mitchell Kennerley, Bookman.
J. Dustin Wees (reviewer), Gavin Bridson and Geoffrey Wakeman, Printmaking & Picture Printing: A Bibliographical Guide….
Virginia Smith (reviewer), Dale Roylance, European Graphic Arts: The Art of the Book From Gutenberg to Picasso.

Printing History OS 18

Volume 9, No. 2

1987 [Out of Print]

 

Joseph Blumenthal, Herbert H. Johnson and Carl Schlesinger, In Memoriam: Dr. Robert Lincoln Leslie, Humanitarian and Educator, 1885–1987.
Susan M. Allen, Jane Yetsweirt (1541–?): Claiming Her Place.
Tyrus G. Harmsen, Robinson Jeffers and his Printers.
G. Thomas Tanselle, Thoughts on Research in Printing History.
Pamela Petro, Gwasg Gregynog: The Reincarnation of a Press.
Victor Margolin, Paul Theobald & Company: Publisher With a New Vision.

 

Reviews

Larry E. Sullivan (reviewer), Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class….
John Dreyfus (reviewer), Paul Needham, The Printer & the Pardoner….
Paul Hayden Duensing (reviewer), Richard E. Huss, The Printer’s Composition Matrix …
Daniel B. Bianchi (reviewer), William J. Glick, William Edwin Rudge.
GraceAnne A. DeCandido (reviewer), Alan Crawford, C. R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer Romantic Socialist.
Melissa M. Bernhardt (reviewer), Patricia Thomas Sbrebrnik, Alexander Strahan: Victorian Publisher.
James N. Green (reviewer), John Tebbel, Between Covers: The Rise and Transformation of Book Publishing in America.

Printing History OS 17

Volume 9, No. 1

1987

 

Roger E. Stoddard, Morphology and the Book from an American Perspective.
Benjamin Alterman, Deborah Alterman, and Laura L. Gewissler, From Woodblock to Silicon Chip: The Transmission of Tibetan Language.
James Eckman, The Union Type Foundry of Chicago, 1884–1892.
James Fraser, Profile: Takashi Kono at Eighty.

 

Reviews

Hope Mayo (reviewer), William S. Peterson, A Bibliography of the Kelmscott Press.

Printing History OS 16

Volume 8, No. 2

1986

 

David Woodward, Maps, Music, and the Printer: Graphic or Typographic?
Elizabeth M. Harris, Inventing Printing for the Blind.
D. W. Krummel, Clarifying the Musical Page: The Romantic Stichbild.

 

Reviews

James H. Fraser (reviewer), The Printing History Series of Verlag Renate Raecke.
James Green (reviewer), Robert E. Cazden, A Social History of the German Book Trade in America to the Civil War; Christopher L. Dolmetsch, The German Press of the Shenandoah Valley.
H. George Fletcher (reviewer), Nicolas Barker, Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script & Type in the Fifteenth Century.
Szilvia E. Szmuk (reviewer), Anne Anninger, Spanish & Portuguese 16th Century Books in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts….
John Tebbel (reviewer), Max Hall, Harvard University Press: A History.

Printing History OS 15

Volume 8, No. 1

1986

 

Lily Chia-jen Kecskes, Chinese Ink and Inkmaking.
Virginia Smith, Longevity and Legibility: Two Types from the De Vinne Press and How They Have Fared.
Sibylle Fraser, Underground Printing in Europe, 1933–1945 An Historical Observation.

 

Reviews

Elliot S. Isaac (reviewer), Gary Marker, Publishing, Printing and the Origins of Intellectual Life in Russia, 1700–1800.
Serge Gleboff (reviewer), G. V Bakhareva and S. P. Luppov, Russkie knigi i biblioteki v XVI – pervoî polovine XIX veka: sbornik nauchnykh trudov.
Harold Corbin (reviewer), Joseph Blumenthal, Robert Frost and His Printers.
Larry E. Sullivan (reviewer), Madeleine B. Stern, Antiquarian Bookselling in the United States: A History from the Origins to the 1940s.
Stephen O. Saxe (reviewer), From Punch to Printing Type: The Art and Craft of Hand Punchcutting and Typecasting. Videotape.

Printing History OS 14

Volume 7, No. 2

1985 [Out of Print]

 

John Bidwell and Cynthia Owen Philip, Robert Fulton’s Portrait of Lord Stanhope.
James Eckman, A Genial Philippic on Taste.
Elizabeth M. Harris, Printing and a Museum [the Smithsonian Institution Graphic Arts Division].
Renée I. Weber, Doctoral Research in Printing History, 1970–1984.
Warren D. Devine, Jr., The Printing Industry as a Leader in Electrification, 1883–1930.

 

Reviews

William L. Joyce (reviewer), James P. Bell, ed., John Peter Zenger and Freedom of the Press.
J. Dustin Wees (reviewer), Anthony Dyson, Pictures to Print: The Nineteenth-century Engraving Trade.
Dennis Stillwell (reviewer), Bruce Beck, ed. Robert Hunter Middleton: The Man and His Letters.

Printing History OS 13

Volume 7, No. 1

1985

 

John Dreyfus, A Transatlantic Involvement with Printing History.
Roderick Cave and Kathleen Coleridge, For Gospel and Wool Trade: Early Printing in New Zealand.
C. Deirdre Phelps, The First Publication to Use American-Made Type.

 

Reviews

William S. Peterson (reviewer), John Carter and Graham Pollard, An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets,2d ed.; Nicolas Barker and John Collins, A Sequel to an Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets by John Carter and Graham Pollard: The Forgeries of H. Buxton Forman and T. J. Wise Re-examined.
David Pankow (reviewer), John Buechler, Charles Whittingham, Printer, 1795–1876; James Davis, Printed by Hague and Gill; Vincent Torre, A Tribute to W. A. Dwiggins on the Hundredth Anniversary of His Birth; Gay Walker, The Works of Carl P. Rollins.
Robin Heyeck (reviewer), Phoebe Jane Easton, Marbling.
Bernard McTigue (reviewer), Brigid Peppin and Lucy Micklethwait, Book Illustrators of the Twentieth Century.