On a first reading of Lord Northcliffe’s Newspaper Millionaires, a pamphlet published by the press baron on the year of his death in 1922, I was struck by his concern for the welfare of the printers who worked on his newspapers.
A new exhibition launching at the British Museum on Thursday 26 November will examine the earliest attempts to incorporate colour into printmaking in the 1400s and 1500s in the German lands—where colour printmaking began in the West.
In 1957 Beatrice Warde, renowned typographic theoretician and publicity director of Monotype, undertook a promotional tour of South Africa and Australia.
On Friday 4 November Chris Hill visited the Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell, London. As a researcher embarking on a project about the political solidarities of printers and compositors, the experience promised to be an incredibly valuable one.
Collotype was based on a French discovery in 1855, and was in full commercial use by the 1870s. Before half-tone screening, it was the only photomechanical process capable of reproducing tone.
