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Printing History News the Newsletter of the National Printing Heritage Trust, Printing Historical Society and Friends of St Bride Library Printing History News The Newsletter of the National Printing Heritage Trust, Printing Historical Society and Friends of St Bride Library Number 51 Summer 2016 Closure of the National which, sadly, remains a long way from • Help museums purchase items of his - Printing HeritageTrust being realised.Those who are currently torical or seminal technical interest paid-up individual or corporate Friends relating to the printing and allied of the NPHT will automatically become trades, and to encourage and support members of the PHS for the remainder the effective display of such items. of the calendar year. It is hoped that they • Facilitate the removal, storage and will wish to continue this membership in restoration of relevant printing the longer term, in order to support the machines and equipment under threat work of the committee (as well as to of destruction and to find permanent enjoy the benefits of PHS membership). homes for them with public access. Museums and archives which have • Work towards a national museum of received complimentary numbers of printing. Printing History News from theTrust • Encourage public institutions to TheTrust’s original logotype will continue to receive them for the acquire archival material connected remainder of this year at least.The with the printing and allied trades – in Trust’s patron, Bamber Gascoigne, On 16 March 2016, at the joint meeting written, visual and recorded oral form. has agreed to accept the role of Vice- of theTrustees and Advisory Committee • Encourage an interest in printing President of the Printing Historical of the NPHT, the decision was made to history at all educational levels, and Society. wind up the National Printing Heritage further research in the subject. It would be appropriate, I think, at this Trust. It was done with great regret, but moment, to express my appreciation of – after some 26 years of labour and those who established the NPHT and dedication by Friends, members and kept it going for so many years. A special St Bride’s Library supporters, with both the President and place of honour must go to the original Treasurer retiring and no long-term The St Bride Library Reading Room founders, Derek Nuttall, Cliff James, prospect of a replacement for either reopened to the public on 6 April, and Desmond Field, Gwyn Evans, Richard officer, coupled with the dwindling will be open from 10am to 8pm on the Hills, James Mosley, Michael Passmore number ofTrustees and active members firstWednesday of every month. and MichaelTwyman. Others have lent of the committee – it was felt that there Because space in the Reading Room is their support over the years, including was no alternative but to close theTrust. limited and some of the stock is currently John Arnold, Ken Burnley, John Hand - The core work of theTrust will con - inaccessible, in order to avoid the possi - ford, Justin Howes, Justin Knopp, Peter tinue, however, as the Printing Historical bility of a wasted journey please let staff Jarrold, Mike Jenkins, John Liffen, Roy Society has welcomed the proposal to know (by email to [email protected]) as Millington, Bob Richardson, Richard establish a new committee to take on the soon as possible if you are intending to Russell, Bernard Seward,Tony Smith, NPHT’s fund-raising, grant-giving, lob - visit, and provide them with a list of the John Spurgin, LaurenceWallis, David bying, promotional and record-keeping materials you wish to see. Use of the Winkworth, JeremyWinkworth and functions (including responsibility for Reading Room and the books it contains many others (apologies if I have omitted theTrust’s Directory).The new commit - will be free, but a charge of £1 will be any important names from this list). tee will include the currently active made for each item retrieved from the Special thanks are due to the retiring members of the former NPHT commit - closed collections. As has previously been Treasurer, Andrew Dolinski; and Chair - tee. My job, as Honorary Correspondent the case, small charges for photography man, MichaelTwyman, who has steered of the NPHT, will be transferred to the and for reprography will also apply. theTrust for more than a decade; and, of new committee, as will the accumulated Regular updates on the library are course, to the Friends and sponsors who funds of theTrust, which will be ring- available via social media outlets and have funded the NPHT’s activities since fenced to fund its traditional activities, website (http://www.sbf.org.uk). 1990. chiefly the giving of grants to support the Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ PAUL W. NASH preservation, restoration, transportation stbridefoundation.Twitter: and accessibility of printing machinery http://www.twitter.com/stbridelibrary. and archives.The new committee will Editor’s note: Blog: http://stbridefoundation. also take on the role of advocate for a It is to be hoped that the original aims wordpress.com/ national printing museum, something of the NPHT will be kept in mind in the For any personal enquiries, email which has long been the Trust’s aim but new structure, which are to: [email protected] 2 PRINTING HISTORY NEWS 51 Distortion of a detail of printing history? It has struck me that the Printing Historical Society is the body to whom I should divulge my suspicion of a misrepresentation inVolume III of The History of Oxford University Press (though I would actually categorize the book as publishing rather than printing history). I worked at OUP for two years in the early 1960s. I found on my working surface one lunchtime, in what must have been 1964, a copy of the fifth edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary that had just been delivered – and A worldwide census of wealth of data about the evolution of an noticed a misprint on the title page: Columbian hand-presses: important hand-press which contributed there was an extra D in the name enormously to the development of the (Friedrichsen) of one of the assistant an update art and trade of printing, and which con - compilers. Sometimes the only way to get the infor - tinues to provide the means for artists I immediately showed this to the mation you seek is to go to the source and art schools to produce exceptional nearest more senior person in the and ask for it. Recently I was visiting in hand-printed work. building that I could find; and a few Sydney, Australia, for another reason I am also beginning the data-gathering days later my immediate boss informed and had some free time in which to try process for a similar census of Albion me that my ‘eagle-eye proofreading’ to find a rumoured Columbian hand- hand-presses in anticipation of the 200th had caused the printing of 100,000 press which had been at the office of the anniversary of its invention, though the cancel title pages (I’m pretty sure he Sydney Morning Herald . date is not as well defined as for the said ‘100,000’, but I can no longer At the entrance to the offices of Columbian. BOB OLDHAM swear to it)! Fairfax Media, the parent organization (www.adlibpress.us) I saw a copy of that first printing of of the Morning Herald , I was greeted by a that edition in a bookshop shortly bas-relief bronze mural depicting a afterwards with the misprint, obviously Columbian press leading a parade of New Zealand’s oldest press shipped before the error could have more modern machines. On entering the been rectified; but there must have foyer and inquiring about a Columbian been subsequent printings that press, the receptionist pointed to an show neither the error nor the cancel object in the corner window – the long- title. sought Clymer & Dixon Double-Royal When the 1896–1970 volume of the Columbian No. 937 from 1841. After History came out late in 2013 it photographing it and taking measure - occurred to me to wonder whether by ments for the worldwide census, I also any chance I’d find any reference to this photographed the mural before leaving. incident there. And it does look My report of the worldwide census of extremely similar to the one described Columbian presses, which appeared in at the bottom of page 296, where ‘one the Journal of the Printing Historical page’ of the Concise Oxford Dictionary Society , New Series No. 21, 2014, pp. is referred to as having been printed 51 –66, reported 377 presses recorded by upside-down and needing to be the census, made and/or sold by about replaced by hand. 50 companies in seven countries, and I’m led to suspect that the incident presently found in 29 countries around was misremembered over the course of the world. An additional 29 presses have 50 years – or, quite possibly, intention - now been added to the census, as well as ally distorted (a misprint on the title additional data and photos of some of This ‘Barrett Demi-Albion No. 329’ page of a dictionary is something one the previously recorded presses includ - press, made by Jonathon and Jeremiah would be very glad to have consigned ing the Morning Heral d’s. Barrett in London in 1830, is thought to to oblivion). It’s pretty hard to imagine This is, I believe, possibly the largest be the oldest surviving press in New how a page would get imposed upside- single collection of information and Zealand. It was purchased by the down on a lithographic plate, let photos of any category of historical Taranaki Herald in 1852 and shipped to alone be subsequently unnoticed by industrial machines. I am hoping to find New Plymouth from Manukau. It was anybody.
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