Melbourne Museum of Printing’s collections auctioned off Thoughts on the recent sale and dispersal of a unique, once in a century collection of historic printing materials, and a foonote on some Australian printing museums which never quite made it. From our Australian correspondant Jürgen Wegner, editor of The shadowland newsletter, Eastwood, New South Wales, Australia.…
A communiqué from the Centre for Printing History and Culture Matthew Boulton’s Baskerville family Bible We were alarmed to learn that Assay Office Birmingham has decided to sell its copy of Matthew Boulton’s Baskerville family bible, together with other items from its library. The sale will take place at auction on 26 March 2020. Furthermore,…
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[A word from the organisers…] Dear colleagues and others interested in taking part in the Day of printing 2020, The new project website for the Day of printing 2020 is now online here and with it the registration form. Around 30 events have already been registered in the first two days! The old inactive…
Alan Connell, founder of the Penrith Museum of Printing in Australia, passed away on Saturday 11th January 2020. In 1939 Alan was indentured for five years to the printer J.S. Horton from whom he learned art and craft of hand composing and the operation of the linotype linecasting machine. He served the last two years…
Dear colleagues, dear prospective organiser of events for the Day of Printing 2020, we hope you had a nice relaxed festive season! The highly successful Day of printing which was organised in the Spring of last year will take place again this year in the 15 March. And with the new year, our project website…
Identification of prints In cooperation with IADA (International Association of Book and Paper Conservators) Lecturer: Hildegard Homburger, Language: English Participants: 8 Dates: Berlin, 12.-13. October 2020 Registration: hombu@freenet.de Content Artistic and industrial printing techniques undergo constant development. Modern technology allows a great variety of relief, intaglio, lithography, screen and digital print. Therefore, the artistic prints…
The Institut d’histoire du livre is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for this year’s Lyon Book History Workshop to be held 29 June – 2 July 2020. The Lyon Book History Workshop’s main purpose is to improve skills in the interpretation and understanding of specific fields relating to our written and…
Columbian presse n° 1616 for sale Location: India Contact: janakrish.hort@gmail.com
Visitors to the Klingspor Museum can now discover its history and collections thanks to the new permanent exhibition which it recently opened. A selection of highlights are now on display has been selected with a view to providing a general overview of the Museum’s extraordinarily rich collections. They are organised in three distinct galleries: the…
In 2018, under the auspices of the national Commemoration of André Suarès, the Louis Jou Foundation decided to republish his text The Art of the Book, designed, composed, laid out and printed by Louis Jou in 1928 in a print run of 37 copies. It very quickly sold out and became impossible to find. In…
Early in 2018 we posted a message from Michael Isaachsen, founder and curator of the Melbourne Museum of Printing indicating that the MMOP’s collections and activities were under threat. Well, the worst has now come to the worst and the MMOP’s entire collection is going to be auctioned off before the end of November. It…
The former Flickr museum photo albums are now all available directly on the AEPM’s website As part of the redesign of the AEPM’s website, the Association’s Flickr gallery has been closed down and the photo albums have been incorporated into the Galleries section of the new-look site which now offers over forty photo albums of…
New location announced for the John Jarrold Printing Museum St Peter Parmentergate in King Street, Norwich, has been named as the new home for the John Jarrold Printing Museum. Currently vacant, the beautiful church in the care of Norwich Historic Churches Trust will, over the coming months, be turned into a fully working museum with…
TYPA (formerly the Estonian Print and Paper Museum) is currently running a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to support the printing of a limited letterpress edition of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The text will be cast on a Soviet version of the Linotype machine and pages printed on a Victoria Polygraph cylinder press…
Call for information on a 1965 Korrex Frankfurt Kraft with blower Last week, I worked on the press in the Royal Library in Brussels and managed to get it all up and running again. I have, however, a few questions. Hopefully another owner of the Frankfurt Kraft will be able to help me further or…
Help wanted TYPA (formerly Estonian Print and Paper Museum) is looking for a spare part for their AHZ prepress camera. Originally manufactured by the VEB Reprografiks Company in Leipzig, the exact date is unknown, but around the 1970s is a guess. The only part missing is the vacuum bed/ door. We are looking for further…
Implementing strategic plans, fundraising and budgeting at the forefront The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum has announced the selection of Peter Crabbe, Ed.D to the newly created position of Executive administrative director. He will focus on providing leadership in the management of our dynamic non-profit organization. Dr. Crabbe will oversee refining, developing and implementing…
[Turnhout, Belgium] New exhibition at the National Playing Card Museum Museum van de Speelkaart (National Playing Card Museum) 26 October 2019 – 30 April 2020 Everyone knows the National Lottery with its popular products such as Lotto or Win for life. Less well-known is that the Lottery also manages an extensive art heritage collection. In…
A conference organised by the Printing Historical Society, the Centre for Print History & Culture, and the Centre for the Study of the Book Bodleian Library, Oxford 10-11 October 2019 Tickets are now on sale from the event page on Eventbrite, where details of the final programme are also to be found. Conference registration is…
