Category Archives: Hand Presses

New North Press – Wilton’s 150th Anniversary poster

May 26, 2009 – 9:13 pm

Richard Ardagh of  Elephants Graveyard directed me to this delightful short movie showing him printing – ably assisted by Graham Bignell of  New North Press – some letterpress posters, on an Albion Press. This poster, to commemorate the 150th Aniversary of Wilton’s Music Hall, is available for purchase along with other letterpress printed items via [...]

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The highly ornamented Columbian Press

May 17, 2009 – 9:17 pm

The Columbian is by far the most lavishly decorated of all iron handpresses, although it must be noted that many of the embellishments function perfectly well as the working parts of the Press. The English writer T. C. Hansard once commented (shortly after the first Columbian Presses appeared in London) that: “If the merits of [...]

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