Contributors sought for book on 17th century printing

Con­tri­bu­tions are being sought for an ‘Ele­ment’ in the Cam­bridge Uni­ver­si­ty Press Pub­lish­ing and Book Cul­ture series, enti­tled The Peo­ple of Print in the Sev­en­teenth Cen­tu­ry. To pro­pose a 2,750 word essay that pro­files one fig­ure, please email the edi­tors, Dr Kaley Kramer (Sheffield Hal­lam Uni­ver­si­ty, k.a.kramer [at] shu.ac.uk), Dr Adam James Smith (York St […]

New book on Monotype Corporation

On 13 Novem­ber 2014, the Van­brugh Press will pub­lish His­to­ry of the Mono­type Cor­po­ra­tion by Judy Slinn, Sebas­t­ian Carter, Richard Southall and edit­ed by Andrew Boag & Christo­pher Burke. This new book will illus­trat­ed the his­to­ry of the British Mono­type Cor­po­ra­tion in its sig­nif­i­cant years from 1897 to 1992, with three sec­tions cov­er­ing the cor­po­ra­tion’s […]