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Awards
In 1976 the American Printing History Association established an annual award to be presented "for a distinguished contribution to the study, recording, preservation or dissemination of printing history, in any specific area or in general terms." At first only individuals were eligible, but in 1985 a second award was established for institutional achievement. These prestigious awards are presented each January at the APHA Annual Meeting in New York City.
Often, the acceptance speeches are important statements of philosophy or accomplishment about the importance of printing history and the book arts. Speeches are normally printed subsequently in Printing History, and some are available online here.
Individual Laureates
| 2011 | Hendrik D. L. Vervliet |
| 2010 | Johanna Drucker |
| 2009 | Robert Bringhurst |
| 2008 | Henry Morris |
| 2007 | Michael Twyman |
| 2006 | Elizabeth M. Harris |
| 2005 | Robert Darnton |
| 2004 | D. W. Krummel |
| 2003 | James Mosley |
| 2002 | Hugh Amory (posthumous) |
| 2001 | Sandra Kirshenbaum |
| 2000 | R. Stanley Nelson |
| 1999 | Sue Allen |
| 1998 | Marcus McCorison |
| 1997 | Michael Winship |
| 1996 | Nicolas Barker |
| 1995 | Katharine F. Pantzer |
| 1994 | Terry Belanger |
| 1993 | Ruari McLean |
| 1992 | Paul Needham |
| 1991 | Eleanor Garvey |
| 1990 | Henri-Jean Martin and Roger Chartier |
| 1989 | Roderick Stinehour |
| 1988 | Edwin Wolf 2nd |
| 1987 | G. Thomas Tanselle |
| 1986 | James Wells |
| 1985 | James Eckman |
| 1984 | John Dreyfus |
| 1983 | Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern |
| 1982 | John Tebbel |
| 1981 | Alexander Lawson |
| 1980 | J. Ben Lieberman |
| 1979 | Maurice Annenberg |
| 1978 | Joseph Blumenthal |
| 1977 | Rollo Silver |
| 1976 | Robert Leslie |
Institutional Awards
| 2011 | MFA Program in the Book Arts of the University of Alabama School of Library and Information Science |
| 2010 | The Center for Book Arts |
| 2009 | The Whittington Press |
| 2008 | Oak Knoll Books and Oak Knoll Publishing |
| 2007 | The Society of Printers |
| 2006 | The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University |
| 2005 | The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA) |
| 2004 | The American Typecasting Fellowship |
| 2003 | The Typophiles (New York, NY) |
| 2002 | Plantin-Moretus Museum (Antwerp, Belgium) |
| 2001 | Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) |
| 2000 | The Gutenberg Museum (Mainz, Germany) |
| 1999 | Center for the Book, University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA) |
| 1998 | Newberry Library (Chicago, IL) |
| 1997 | Pierpont Morgan Library (New York, NY) |
| 1996 | Book Club of California (San Francisco, CA) |
| 1995 | Special Collections, New York Public Library (New York, NY) |
| 1994 | Center for the Book, Library of Congress (Washington, DC) |
| 1993 | Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, VA) |
| 1992 | Melbert B. Cary, Jr., Collection, Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY) |
| 1991 | Bibliographical Society of America (New York, NY) |
| 1990 | Grolier Club (New York, NY) |
| 1989 | St. Bride Printing Library (London, England) |
| 1988 | Kemble Collections, California Historical Society (San Francisco, CA) |
| 1987 | American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, MA) |
| 1986 | School of Library Service, Columbia University (New York, NY) |
| 1985 | Division of Graphic Arts, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC) |
Elected to their first term, at our annual general meeting held January 28, were Robert McCamant, President; James P. Ascher, VP for Publications; Casey Smith, VP for Membership; and Charles Cuykendall Carter, Secretary. Re-elected to a second term were Kitty Maryatt, VP for Programs; and David Goodrich, Treasurer. Trustees Amelia Hugill-Fontanel and Richard Ring will serve until January 2013.
The American Printing History Association welcomes proposals for its 2012 annual conference. “At the Crossroads: Living Letterform Traditions” at Columbia College Chicago, Center for Book and Paper Arts, October 12–13, 2012. Proposals are due by March 15. Full details are available in PDF.
Our annual general meeting will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday January 28, 2012 in the Trustees’ Room on the second floor of the New York Public Library, 5th Avenue at 42nd Street in Manhattan. In addition to Association business, our annual meeting is a chance to meet fellow members from around the country, to network, and to hear some important speakers. (Our meeting marks the end of “Bibliography Week” in New York, when similar groups hold their annual meetings and this year includes a major exhibition on printing at the Grolier Club; more information online grolierclub.org. APHA’s meeting is free and open to non-members (except for voting), so please invite friends interested in printing, books, publishing, and type. Read the President's Letter.
The Fall 2011 issue of the APHA Newsletter comprises of reports from the annual conference including panels, Pamela Smith's keynote address, Gwido Zlatkes's Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship talk, the SoCal chapter book fair, a tour of the Stuart Collection of outdoor sculpture at UCSD and a list of new APHA members. Download the Newsletter in PDF form.
Kitty Maryatt reports on the first-ever conference book fair. Read all about it.
Many numbers are available to APHA members for a limited time at the bargain rate of $8 for the first issue, $6 for each additional; $15 for double issues. Learn more at printinghistory.org/sale.
Details and application for the 2012 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship
in Printing History are now online.
Thanks to the generosity of several APHA Southern California Chapter members, the Southern California Chapter has conducted its first-ever student membership drawing.
To celebrate the start of 2011, the complete listing of Printing History's contents have been put back online. See the contents (and a few select articles) from the Original Series, or a complete listing of the New Series. See something you like? Download the Back Issue Order Form.