Monographs and facsimiles

In addition to the articles in our Journal we have published, since our inception, longer works of original scholarship and reproductions of relevant historical texts.

Publications in print

John Phillips’s lithographic notebook, a full-colour facsimile edited by Michael Twyman, with a checklist of Phillips’s lithographic work up to the end of 1819. ISBN 9780900003165 £30 (members £15)

The Cambridge University Press collection of private press types: Kelmscott, Ashendene, Eragny, Cranach by Thomas Balston. A re-print of the 1951 Christmas book produced privately by the University Printer. ISBN 9780900003189 £30 (members £15)

The Albion Press, by Reynolds Stone, with an Introductory note by James Mosley. ISBN 0 900003 13 8 £14 (members £10)

The Autobiography of Luke Hansard, Printer to the House, 1752–1828, edited and with an introduction by Robin Myers. ISBN 0 900003 12 X £18 (members £12)

Specimen of Stereotype Ornaments, 1825, by M. U. Sears. With an introduction by James Mosley. ISBN 0 900003 11 1 £12 (members £8)

New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types, by William Davison. Edited by Peter Isaac. ISBN 0 900003 09 X £20 (members £15)

Specimen of Modern Printing Types 1828, by Edmund Fry. Reprinted with an introduction by David Chambers. ISBN 0 900003 08 1 £20 (members £15)

Treatise on Lithography, by Henry Bankes. Reprinted from the 1813 and 1816 editions, with an introduction and notes by Michael Twyman. ISBN 0 900003 07 3 £12 (members £6)

A Directory of London Lithographic Printers 1800–1850, compiled with an introduction by Michael Twyman. ISBN 0 900003 05 7 £10 (members £5)

A Directory of London Printers, 1800–1840 by William B. Todd. ISBN 0 900003 04 9 £15 (members £7.50)

Printing Patents: Abridgments of Patent Specifications... 1617–1857. Reprinted from the 1859 edition, with the 1878 Supplement. Prefatory Note by James Harrison. ISBN 0 900003 00 6 £10 (members £5)

With the British Library and Oak Knoll Press

A history of chromolithography: printed colour for all by Michael Twyman. London: British Library and Printing Historical Society; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll, 2013. 728 pages. Folio (32 x 24 x 6 cm). Cloth with full-colour dust-jacket. ISBN 0712356106, 9780712357104. Illustrated throughout in colour and monochrome. This title can be ordered online at the full price of £75: see eBay listing (members £40)

Strawberry Books

The art of writing on stone in the 1830s: the work of Émile Niveduab in Bordeaux by Michael Twyman. Small quarto. 114 pages, 96 illustrations, 13 in colour. In grey paper-covered boards, blocked in gold ISBN 9781872333731. This title, an offprint from the Journal Third Series no. 1 with revisions and an index, can be ordered online at the full price of £20: see eBay listing (members £12). All proceeds go to the Printing Historical Society.

How to order

Please send an email, with details of the title you would like to buy, to secretary@printinghistoricalsociety.org.uk