The annual St Bride Foundation Wayzegoose will take place on Sunday 27th April 2025, from 11:00 — 16:00. Explore numerous stalls selling letterpress supplies, type and ornaments, paper, printed items, second-hand books and type specimens and there will of course be cake! For more details see the St Bride Foundation website.
Archives for March 2025
OTD 5 March 1822
5 March 2025 by
The Society of Bookbinders in Edinburgh was formed in 1814, as a relief society for sick and unemployed members. On 5 March 1822 the name changed to the Union Society of Edinburgh Journeyman Bookbinders. The Society continued for 50 years, remaining independent of the Bookbinders’ Consolidated Union until September 1872 when the two organisations amalgamated […]
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