Examples of modern craft bookbinding are on display in the entrance hall of the National Library of Scotland on George IV Bridge, Edinburgh until 8 March. They are the entries to the 2014 Elizabeth Soutar Bookbinding Competition, which attracts binders from all over Europe. Entries are bound exclusively for the competition and a prize of […]
Archives for February 2015
Exhibition on printing in Glasgow
February 23, 2015
A major exhibition is opening at the Hunterian Art Gallery of the University of Glasgow on Friday 27 February 215. Ingenious impressions: the coming of the book charts the development of the earlt printed book in Europe and explores the transition from manuscript to print and its impact on late medieval society. The University of […]
Douglas Grant
February 21, 2015
The Edinburgh printer and publisher, Douglas Grant, died in July 2014. He was a significant figure in the printing and publishing industry, latterly as the managing director of Scottish Academic Press. Earlier, he had been the managing director of Oliver & Boyd, and was involved in the efforts to save R & R Clark around […]
Doves Press type recovered
February 20, 2015
Designer Robert Green has been trying to recover the Doves Press type, thrown into the Thames at Hammersmith Bridge by T J Cobden-Sanderson in 1913, after a dispute with his former business partner Emery Walker. Green has been able to recover about 150 pieces of type (the rest have been covered on concrete during repairs […]
Where is printing being taught
February 10, 2015
The National Printing Heritage Trust is attempting to answer the questions ‘Where is printing being taught?’ and ‘In what manner is printing being taught (as a hobby, a profession, an art or a craft)? Email Paul Nash, editor of Printing History News, with any information. paul@strawberry.co.uk
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