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Printing History
Printing History, the biannual journal of the American Printing History Association, publishes scholarly articles on the history of printing, publishing, books, type, typography, paper and related industries. Befitting a publication devoted to this subject it is beautifully designed, printed and illustrated, of course, and is available in paper format only through membership in APHA.
Printing History was founded in 1979; since then it has been edited by Susan Otis Thompson, Irene Tichenor, Renee Weber, and David Pankow. The first 50 issues of the journal constitute the original series.
Printing History New Series began in 2007 under the editorship of William S. Peterson, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland, former editor of Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and the author of books about the Kelmscott Press and Daniel Berkeley Updike.
Submitting an article to Printing History
Mr. Peterson welcomes submissions on any aspect of printing history and its related arts; contributors need not be members of APHA. All correspondence, articles, book reviews, inquiries, etc., should be directed to him.
The editor prefers to receive submissions as e-mail attachments, created, if possible, in Word, WordPerfect, or OpenOffice (though he can deal with other formats if necessary). He follows The Chicago Manual of Style (slightly modified), and contributors should observe that our notes are rendered as footnotes rather than endnotes. Readers familiar with Printing History will also be aware that we especially welcome illustrated articles.
Back issues of Printing History
Back issues of Printing History are indexed in Library Literature and the MLA International Bibliography. Back issues of the new series are searchable in EBSCO and Gale online academic databases. Many back issues of both the original and the new series are available for purchase.
Advertising in Printing History
You may purchase quarter-, half-, or full-page advertising spaces in the journal by contacting the advertising manager at advertising@printinghistory.org. Download the Advertising Rate Sheet here.
APHA’s 35th Annual Conference, “Learning To Print, Teaching to Print,” meets in Washington, DC, October 15th–17th, 2010, at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. Download the Call for Proposals here.
The Winter 2010 issue of the Newsletter is comprised of an invitation to the upcoming annual meeting; an overview of the 2010 annual conference; detailed reports on the recent 2009 conference; chapter activities from across the country; a plea for information on Ramage hand presses; a synopsis of a talk by Matthew Carter at the Type Directors Cub; a report on a conference in Munich concerned with the materiality of early printed books; obituaries of Ed Rondthaler and Charles M. Antin; and notes the appointment of a new editor. Download it in PDF form here.
The 2010 Annual Meeting will feature the presentation of our prestigious annual awards for distinguished
contributions “to the study, recording, preservation or dissemination of printing history.” The
2010 Individual Award will be presented to Johanna Drucker, prolific author, teacher, speaker and internationally
recognized authority in the book arts. The 2010 Institutional Award will go to the Center for Book Arts, for its encouragement of both
traditional printing and of the contemporary exploration of the book as art object. See a list of past APHA Award-winners and read some of their acceptance speeches here.
You'll read in the summer newsletter that from the fall issue 2009 (number 172) onwards the Newsletter will only be available in electronic form on this website. It will no longer be printed and mailed to members, a significant cost savings that may have an unexpected benefit: going electronic will make it possible for us to produce more newsletters each year. For the time being the design of the newsletter will remain the same, so those who wish to print it out will have the recognizable and familiar object to hold. Soon though we will reformat it somewhat for easier reading on your iPhone or Blackberry. Of course we will continue to archive the newsletter on the website, so that all back issues will be available. We are also investigating ways to feed the publication to interested subscribers.