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Many numbers 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. See below for tables of contents, ordering and shipping details and an even better price for student members!
Printing History sales details
The Original Series is still in print except nos. 5, 6, 7/8, 10-12 (inclusive), 14, 18, 23, 25, 30, and 46.
Sale price: $8 for the first issue, $6 for each one after that; $15 for double issues. Sale price for student members: $5 per issue, $10 for double issues.
Add $2.00 for postage on first issue, $1 more for each additional issue.
Important note regarding fulfillment: We will be shipping twice, once in late January 2012 and once in early March 2012. Orders must be received by Thursday, 1 March 2012.
If you have queries not answered by this information, write to Liz Denlinger at ecdenlinger@gmail.com.
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Available Sale Issues
Whole Number 1 (Volume 1, No. 1) 1979
Susan Thompson, Early Journals of Interest to APHA, Excerpts from five earlier printing related journals: The Typographic Messenger, The Inland Printer, The American Bookmaker, The Engraver and Printer, and The Printing Art.
Rollo G. Silver, The Autobiography of Stephen P. Ruggles, [Partial transcription of an 1870 autobiography by inventor Ruggles (1808–1880).]
Joseph R. Dunlap, Two Victorian Voices Advocating Good Book Design: I. Henry Stevens and the Shoddimites.
Gordon B. Neavill, The Modern Library Series: Format and Design, 1917–1977.
Whole Number 2 (Volume 1, No. 2) 1979
Madeleine B. Stern, Isaac M. Singer's Type Machine.
Rollo G. Silver, Violent Assaults on American Printing Shops, 1788–1860.
E. Richard McKinstry, A Sketch of the Brief Printing Career of David Cree, 1784–1786.
Octave Uzanne, The End of Books [reprinted from Scribner's (1896)].
Out of Sorts Press (Larchmont, N.Y.), Some Unlost Typefaces of Frederic W. Goudy [Originally printed as a keepsake for the Goudy Society Annual Dinner in 1978]
Whole Number 3 (Volume 2, No. 1) 1980
Stephen O. Saxe, The Type Founders of New York City, 1840–1900.
Joseph R. Dunlap, Two Victorian Voices Advocating Good Book Design: II. Charles Kegan Paul, Perceptive Publisher.
Neville Thompson, A Note on Bruce Rogers in Youth and Age.
Robert Singerman, A Curious Document Attributing a Jewish Background to Johann Gutenberg.
William J. Dane, A Bradley Reminiscence.
Whole Number 4 (Volume 2, No. 2) 1980
Alexander Nesbitt, A Life with Type and Letters.
Madeleine B. Stern, Every Man His Own Printer: The Typographical Experiments of Josiah Warren.
John Bidwell, Some Caslon Ornaments in Some American Books.
William Dean Howells, The Country Printer. [reprint from Scribners' Magazine]
Whole Number 9 (Volume 5, No. 1) 1983
John Lancaster, Nineteenth Century America: Book Trade Technology and Social History. [Introduction].
Rollo G. Silver, The Power of the Press: Hand, Horse, Water, and Steam.
James J. Barnes, Jonas Winchester: Speculator, Medicine Man.
Stephen O. Saxe, Vincent Fitzpatrick, and Frederick N. Rasmussen, H. L. Mencken: in the Steps of Gutenberg.
Neville Thompson, Bruce Rogers Looks Back.
Elbert Hubbard to W. W. Denslow from The Sanford & Helen Berger Collection.
Whole Number 13 (Volume 7, No. 1) 1985
John Dreyfus, A Transatlantic Involvement with Printing History.
Roderick Cave and Kathleen Coleridge, For Gospel and Wool Trade: Early Printing in New Zealand.
C. Deirdre Phelps, The First Publication to Use American-Made Type.
Whole Number 15 (Volume 8, No. 1) 1986
Lily Chia-jen Kecskes, Chinese Ink and Inkmaking.
Virginia Smith, Longevity and Legibility: Two Types from the De Vinne Press and How They Have Fared.
Sibylle Fraser, Underground Printing in Europe, 1933–1945 An Historical Observation.
Whole Number 16 (Volume 8, No. 2) 1986
David Woodward, Maps, Music, and the Printer: Graphic or Typographic?
Elizabeth M. Harris, Inventing Printing for the Blind.
D. W. Krummel, Clarifying the Musical Page: The Romantic Stichbild.
Whole Number 19 (Volume 10, No. 1) 1988
Charlotte K. and August E. Brunsman, Wright & Wright, Printers: The "Other" Career of Wilbur and Orville.
David Pankow, Dungeons and Dragon's Blood: The Development of Late 19th and Early 20th Century Platemaking Processes.
John A. Lent, Pioneer Women Editors--The Stockdale Sisters of Bermuda.
Whole Number 20 (Volume 10, No. 2) 1988
In Memoriam Stephen Harvard.
Clifford A. Harvey, Before Rosebud was a Sled: Documentation and Reprinting of Early 19th Century Commercial Wood Engravings from the GramLee Collection.
Gay Walker, Printing for the United States: Meriden Gravure and the U. S. Government.
Joseph Dunlap, Emery Walker, Oscar Wilde and May Morris, Emery Walker and "Letterpress Printing": A Centennial Celebration.
Roderick Cave, The Stockdale Sisters Revisited: Women Printers and Editors in the West Indies. [With a rebuttal by John A. Lent]
Whole Number 21 (Volume 11, No. 1) 1989
Philip J. Weimerskirch, Lithographic Stone in America.
Irene Tichenor, Theodore De Vinne: Unlikely Leader.
Sarah Jordan Miller, Producing Documents for Congress and the Nation: Government Printing in the United States, Past and Present. PART I
Whole Number 22 (Volume 11, No. 2) 1989
In Memoriam Bernard Brussel-Smith. With contributions by James Fraser, Henry Pitz and Bernard Brussel-Smith
Elizabeth Harris, Press-builders in Philadelphia, 1776–1850.
Stephen O. Saxe, Ramage Proof Press.
Jennifer B. Lee, "Our Infant Manufactures": Early Typefounding in Philadelphia.
Sarah Jordan Miller, Producing Documents for Congress and the Nation: Government Printing in the United States, Past and Present. PART II. Reviews
Whole Number 24 (Volume 13, No. 2) 1990
[N.B. Volume 13 no. 1 appeared as Whole Number 26–27]
Hugh Amory, 'Gods Altar Needs Not our Pollishings': Revisiting the Bay Psalm Book.
Margaret Lane Ford, A Widow's Work: Ann Franklin of Newport, Rhode Island.
Roderick Stinehour, Joseph Blumenthal.
Whole Number 26–27 (Volume 13, No. 2 and Volume 14 no. 1) 1991–1992
Matthew Carter, Theories of Letterform Construction. Part 1.
Kay Amert, Origins of the French Old-Style: The Roman and Italic Types of Simon de Colines.
Maxwell Whiteman, The Introduction and Spread of Hebrew Type in the United States.
Alastair Johnston, 'Guard the Mysteries! Constantly Reveal Them!' The History of Printing as Shown in Type Specimens
Mark Argetsinger, Adobe Garamond: A Review
Jerry Kelly, Adobe Garamond: A New Adaptation of a Sixteenth-Century Type
Whole Number 28 (Volume 14, No. 2) 1992
Helena E. Wright, Dard Hunter at the Smithsonian.
Walker Rumble, A Time of Giants: Speed Composition in Nineteenth-Century America.
Robert Singerman, Naphtali Judah, New York Bookseller and Stationer.
Morton H. Baker, The Early History of the Thomas Todd Company, 1864–1924
Whole Number 29 (Volume 15, No. 1) 1993
Sandra J. Markham, Memento Mori on Silk and Stone: Reuben Manley, Printer, 1818–42.
David A. Hanson, Baron Frederick Wilhelm von Egloffstein: Inventor of the First Commercial Halftone Process in America.
Stephen O. Saxe, The Landis Valley Museum Ramage Press.
Alastair Johnston, Reflections on the Centenary of the Merrymount Press.
Megan L. Benton, C. Volmer Nordlunde: The "Grand Old Man" of Modern Danish Printing.
Whole Number 31–32 (Volume 16, No. 1 and Volume XVI no. 2) 1994
Walter Tracy, Why Egyptian?
Lawrence W. Wallis, Type Designs by George W. Jones for the Linotype Machine.
Stephen O. Saxe, "A Small Old Printing Press."
Patricia A. Cost, Linn Boyd Benton, Morris Fuller Benton, and Typemaking at ATF.
Dermot McGuinne, Victor Hammer-An Irish Connection.
Mike Parker, W. Starling Burgess, Type Designer?
Whole Number 33 (Volume 17, No. 1) 1995
Terry Belanger, Twenty Years After.
Michael Winship, The Art Preservative: From the History of the Book Back to Printing History.
Marcus A. McCorison, John Mycall-The Ingenious Typographer of Newburyport.
W. Thomas Taylor, The Temper of the Present.
Whole Number 34 (Volume 17, No. 2) 1995
Steven Leuthold, The Book and the Peasant: Visual Representation and Social Change in German Woodcuts, 1521–1525.
Joseph A. Dane, The Curse of the Mummy Paper.
James N. Green, `The Cowl knows best what will suit in Virginia': Parson Weems on Southern Readers.
Jane R. Pomeroy, On the Changes Made in Wood Engravings in the Stereotyping Process.
Whole Number 35 (Volume 18, No. 1)
Roger E. Stoddard, "Oh, Mr. Jefferson-After All These Years, Why Do We Know So Little about the Books 0f Your Time?"
Paul F. Gehl, The Europeans Are Coming! Or, What's New in Continental History of the Book: A Review Essay.
Walker Rumble, Strategies of Shopfloor Inclusion: The Gender Politics of Augusta Lewis and Women's Typographical Union No. 1, 1868–1872.
Corban Goble, Rogers's Typograph Versus Mergenthaler's Linotype: The Push and Shove 0f Patents and Priority in the 1890s.
Whole Number 36 (Volume 18, No. 2)
Corban Goble, Mark Twain's Nemesis: The Paige Compositor.
Robert D. Harlan, Origins of San Francisco Fine Printing Traditions.
Michael Peich, William Everson: Fine Printer.
Whole Number 37 (Volume 19, No. 1)
Harold Berliner, Nicolas Barker, Jim Rimmer, & John Dreyfus, Starling Burgess, No Type Designer: A Rebuttal of Some Allegations and Suppositions Made by Mike Parker in his Article "Starling Burgess, Type Designer?" in Printing History 31/32 (1994).
David Pankow, A Face by Any Other Name is Still My Face: A Tale of Type Piracy.
Whole Number 38–39 (Volume 19, No. 2 and Volume 20, No. 1)
Peter Bain and Paul Shaw, Blackletter: Type and National Identity, A Catalog of the Exhibition, March 3 to May 2, 1998.
Whole Number 40 (Volume 20, No. 2)
Marvin J. Heller, Mirror-image Monograms as Printers' Devices on Title Pages of Hebrew Books Printed in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
Richard M. Candee, Illustrating Invention: Nineteenth-century Machine Advertising for the Aikens of Franklin, New Hampshire.
Peter E. Hanff, Way & Williams, Publishers, Chicago, 1895–98.
Alfred W. Baxter, Grabhorn Press Ephemera: The Missing Matter.
Whole Number 41 (Volume 21, No. 1)
Kenneth Auchincloss, The Second Revival; Fine Printing Since World War II.
Martino Mardersteig, The Cento Amici del Libro.
Carol Grossman, The Trianon Press's William Blake's Water-colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray.
Sebastian Carter, The Rampant Lions Press-Retrospectus and Prospectus.
Whole Number 42 (Volume 21, No. 2)
Joseph A. Dane, The Huntington Apocalypse Blockbook (Schreiber Editions IV/V) with a Note on Terminology.
Kay Amert, A Renaissance Font: Paris, 1516.
Peter K. Fallon, Why the Irish Speak English: The Consequences of One Culture's Resistance to Technological Change.
Philip J. Weimerskirch, The Rev. Abraham O. Stansbury and the Stansbury Press.
Gerald Lange, Fraternal Offspring: Matthew Carter's Manutius/Miller.
Whole Number 43–44 (Volume 22, No. 1 and 2)
David Pankow, Editor's Introduction: The Rise and Fall of ATF.
Jennifer B. Lee, Introduction to the Exhibition.
Type to Print: The Book & The Type Specimen Book.
Jennifer B. Lee, editor, The Bullen Letters.
Whole Number 45 (Volume 23, No. 1) 2003
Donald C. O'Brien, The Early Nineteenth-Century Boston Engraving Trade and the Engravers who Developed it.
J.F. Coakley, Homan Hallock, Punchcutter.
Roger Stoddard, For Hugh from Roger. [Tribute for Hugh Amory]
Whole Number 47 (Volume 24, No. 1) 2003
Peter Holliday, Edward Johnston & Robert Bridges, 1901–1926: A Phonetic Alphabet in the Half Uncial Script.
Robert D. Harlan, Seven Letters from C. H. St. John Hornby to John Henry Nash.
Whole Number 48 (Volume 24, No. 2) 2005
David R. Whitesell, Thomas Jefferson and the Book Arts
Philip J. Weimerskirch, The Beginning of Color Printing in America
David A. Hanson, John Carbutt and the Woodburytype in America
Whole Number 49 (Volume 25, No. 1) 2006
Charles Creesy, Monticello: The History of a Typeface
Amelia Hugill-Fontanel, Arts et Metiers Graphiques: The Graphic Design Magazine of the Deberny et Peignot Type Foundry
Ellen Mazur Thomson, The Graphic Forms Lectures
Whole Number 50 (Volume 25, No. 2) 2009
NB: This issue has a numbering error on the cover. It is not Volume 26 no. 2
Helena Wright, The Future of Printing Museums
Richard Flint, A Great Industrial Art: Circus Poster Printing in America
William S. Peterson, Nineteenth-Century Revivals, Typographic and Spiritual
David Pankow, Facing the Unfolded and Visible Book of the Future
APHA is pleased to announce the Lieberman Lecture for 2012, to be given by type designer and letterpress printer Russell Maret. It will be given at 11:00 a.m. on June 2 in Chicago at the Newberry Library in Ruggles Hall at 60. W. Walton Street. More info.
The belated Winter 2012 issue of the APHA Newsletter is comprised of an update on the planning of the 2012 Annual Conference, announcement of the 2012 Lieberman Lecture, a notice on the one hundredth anniversary of the death of Harrison T. Chandler, a review of Alastair M. Johnston's Typographical Tourists and a roster of new and returning members. Download the Newsletter in PDF form.
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.