News
Journal, new series 13 and 14
The 13th and 14th volumes of the new series have appeared, edited by John Trevitt. Volume 13 is a special issue on lottery printing guest edited by Dr Rob Banham. It contains 3 articles, each with extensive colour reproductions, and 6 reviews. The articles: Geoffrey L. Grant, 'The English State Lottery 1694-1826'; Rob Banham, 'Lottery Advertising 1800-1826'; and Maureen Greenland, 'Whiting & Branston's Lottery Printing'. The reviewers are Catherine Armstrong, Catherine Feely, David Griffith and Paul Shaw.
Volume 14's articles are by Eric Kindel, 'Delight of Men and Gods: Christiaan Huygen's New Method of Printing'; and Edward J. Law, 'The Introduction of anastatic printing to America'. The reviewers are Rob Allen, Maureen Bell, Bridget Carrington, Eddie Cass, Elaine Jackson, Betty Hagglund, Andrew King, Michael Mitchell, Tracy Thong and Terry Wyke.
New Officers for the PHS
At the 2010 AGM the Printing Historical Society will elect
officers to replace Peggy Smith (Chairman), Ken Brooks (Treasurer), and Rathna Ramanathan (Secretary), who are retiring.
The office of Membership Secretary will be filled separately from
the Treasurership, and we hope also to appoint a Web-master. We always
encourage attendance at the AGM, and this year we offer a most promising lecture after-wards: Dr John Hinks on Printing: a revolutionary history.
2010 Annual General Meeting
The 2010 Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday 27 April 2010 at 5.30pm at the St Bride Foundation, London. At 6.00pm Dr John Hinks will speak on 'Printing: a Revolutionary History'.
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.