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Journal, new series 11
The 11th volume of the new series has just appeared, the first to be edited by John Trevitt. It contains three articles, two with colour images, and 12 reviews. The articles: Nigel F. Palmer, Blockbooks: text and illustrations printed from wood blocks; Robert Banham, Nineteenth-century jobbing: the printing methods of Gye and Balne; Alan May, The one-pull press. Reviews are by Catherine Armstrong, Maureen Bell, Gabriel Egan, Catherine Feely, Ian Gadd, Sasha Handley, John Hinks, Tim Reinke-Williams, Rosemary Sweet and David Vaisey.
Announcing the Donald Milham Award
The PHS is pleased to invite applications from members and former members of the printing industry for the Donald Milham Award. The Award will be made for written accounts about work experiences during the latter half of the 20th century, based on their usefulness to printing historians. For details, see the Grants Programme section of the site.
The Index volumes 1 to 28 of the Journal
The Index, compiled by Paul W. Nash, appeared in October 2005. It covers the Journals printed between 1965 and 1999 (our first series) and includes between 5,000 and 6,000 entries, from the early eighteenth-century Madrid printer Diego Martinez Abad, to Zuccato's Papyrograph. Printers, type designers and typefounders, printing processes, inventors, scholars of printing history, printing machinery from the hand and machine periods, trade societies, many categories of printed materials--all are present. Copies are available from Claude Cox Books, 3 and 5 Silent Street Ipswich IP1 1TF for £14.00 (members £10).
You can now download The Index in PDF format for free.