The awards ceremony for the 2013 Elizabeth Soutar Bookbinding competition will be held at the National Library of Scotland on 21 February 2104. All the 2013 competition entries will be display for this event. This Elizabeth Soutar Bookbinding award aims to encourage the practice and development of creative and craft binding skills, and the competition is […]
Archives for January 2014
Grants in printing history for 2014
The Printing Historical Society awards a number of grant to support research on topics relating to the history of printing, and publishable reports on archives relating to the history of printing. The grants support historical research in printing technology, the printing and related industries, printed materials and artefacts, type and typefounding, print culture, and printing […]
Book to mark the 200th anniversary of the Columbian Press
Printing technology historian Bob Oldham and hand printing press collector and researcher Patrick Goossens have co-authored a new book about George Clymer’s Columbian hand press for the 200th anniversary of its invention. The book includes a biographical summary about George Clymer, some new information about the development of the Columbian, and reports on Bob’s world-wide […]