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printer bibliographies
The listings below
record items with more than one
company or
more than one country recorded within, or are a generic
printing work of reference.
There is also an extensive bibliography
recorded against many individual printers
in the main body of this work, where
articles or books have been found
relating specifically to one printer
or one
country.
Web-sites
are generally not logged in the bibliographies
(a few "stable" exceptions are
at the foot of this page), as they are changing
location or are simply vanishing at such
a rate and 'broken links' are never popular!
It
is suggested that the company name is entered
into your favourite search engine such as
Google or Yahoo! - and remember that the
Google search
engine (top right of every page)
only provides results from within this site
and does
not search the Internet.
Invention
and Spread of Printing Works 
 Adams, J. Michael and Faux, David
D. Printing Technology, 2nd Ed. Graphically
illustrated manual on printing and the history
of its technology (Wadsworth, 1982, 1988).
Berry, William
Turner, and Herbert Edmund Poole, Annals
of Printing: A Chronological Encyclopaedia
from the Earliest Times to 1950 (London:
Blandford Press, 1966).
Bigmore, E. C.
(Edward Clements). A bibliography
of printing : with notes and illustrations.
[Oak Knoll ed.] (New Castle, Del. : Oak
Knoll Press ; London : British Library,
2001).
Bouchot,
Henri Francois Xavier Marie, The Book: Its
Printers, Illustrators and Binders From
Gutenberg to the Present Time (London: H.
Grevel, 1890; Detroit: Gale Research Co.,
1971).
Carter,
Thomas Francis, The Invention of Printing
in China and Its Spread Westward (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1925).
Clair,
Colin, A History of European Printing (London;
New York: Academic Press, 1976).
Doyle, Anthony
Ian, et al., Manuscript to Print: Tradition and Innovation in the Renaissance Book (Durham:
University of Durham Library, 1975).
Haebler, Konrad,
The Study of Incunabula (New York: Grolier
Club, 1933; New York: Kraus Reprint Corp.,
1967).
Needham,
Joseph, Science and Civilization in China,
v.5, pt.1: Paper and Printing, by Tsien
Tsuen-hsuin. Scholarly history of Chinese
technology with a detailed section on printing
in China and Korea, and an extensive bibliography.
(Cambridge University Press, 1985)
Peddie,
Robert Alexander, Fifteenth-Century Books:
A Guide to Their Identification (New York:
Burt Franklin, 1969).
Steinberg,
Sigfrid Henry, Five Hundred Years of Printing
(Harmondsworth, Eng.; Baltimore: Penguin
Books, 1974).
Temple,
Robert, The Genius of China: 3000 Years
of Science, Discovery and Invention. Elaborate
survey of Chinese science and technology,
including an interesting chapter on the
rise of printing from the 8th to 11th Centuries
with photographs of surviving documents.
(Simon & Schuster, 1986).
Updike,
Daniel Berkley, Printing Types, Their History,
Forms and Use: A Study in Survival (Cambridge,
MA: Belknap Press, 1962).
General
Non-Philatelic Printing Works
A Bibliography of
the History of Printing in the Library of
Congress (Springwater, NY: Horace Hart,
1987-1990).
A Bibliography
of Printing, With Notes and Illustrations,
E.C. Bigmore and C.W.H. Wyman, compilers
(London: Quaritch, 1880-86; Reprint, New
York: P.C. Duschnes, 1945, 2v.).
Columbia
University Libraries, The History of Printing
From Its Beginnings to 1930; The Subject
Catalogue of the American Type Founders
Company Library in the Columbia University
Libraries (Millwood, NY: Kraus International
Publications, 1980).
The
Invention of Printing: A Bibliography, Douglas
C. McMurtrie, ed. (Chicago: Chicago Club
of Printing House Craftsmen, 1942).
General
Philatelic Printing Works
A Brief History of Papermaking.
Richard L Hills. 2nd edition,
North Western Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, UK, 1979, ii+22pp.
(210mm x 150mm) Pamphlet with a blue card cover, lettered in black with an old
illustration of papermaking on the front. Soft bound in royal blue
buckram.
British
Stamp Printers. Glenn H Morgan FRPSL. British Philatelic Bulletin
Publication No.12, Royal Mail, London, UK, 2006, 20pp. (210mm x
148mm) Pamphlet. Issued free with the British Philatelic Bulletin.
A Hundred Years
of Postage Stamps, by Patrick Hamilton,
Peter Davis 1939. 300pp hardback. The development
of postage stamp production and postal systems,
ands the history of philately.
The Engraver's Line: An Encyclopedia
of Paper Money & Postage Stamp Art. Gene Hessler. BNR Press, Port Clinton, OH,
USA, 1993, x+437pp. (260mm x 178mm) Hard bound in green cloth and lettered in
silver across the front and down the spine. Includes dust jacket. {An eleven
page supplement was included when seen in
2005:
A Supplement to The Engraver's Line, Corrections & Additions by
Gene Hessler, Mark Tomasco & Kenneth Guy.
Etching
and Engraving. Chamberlain. 1972.
Fundamentals
of Philately. L N & M Williams. American Philatelic Society,
State College, Pa, 1971, iv+629+xxx pp. (245mm x 170mm) Hardbound in brown
cloth with gold lettering on the front and across the spine. Originally serialised in the
Philatelic Literature Review, 1954-63, Volumes 67-76. Reprinted in five
sections and an appendix, 1958-68 (255mm x 175mm)
Section 1 (1st
edition) ii+pp.1-110
Section 1 (2nd
edition) ii+pp.1-110
Section 2 ii+pp.111-230
Section 3 ii+pp.231-342
Section 4 ii+pp.343-452
Section 5 ii+pp.453-629
Appendix* pp.i-xxx
* I have no details as to
the publication history of the Appendix which included three pages of
corrigenda and addenda, the remaining pages being devoted to an index by James
Negus.[The above Sections were
donated to the Royal Philatelic Society London, May 2000.]
Fundamentals
of Philately. 2nd revised edition,
American Philatelic Society, State College, Pa, 1990, xv+862pp. (230mm x 150mm)
Hardbound in red cloth, with dust jacket. Only Leon Norman Williams is
credited as the author of this edition, his brother having died beforehand. A photograph
of the author is given on the back flap of the dust jacket.
The
Giori Press and the Manufacture of US Postage
Stamps. Brett, 1961.
The International Engraver's Line:
Paper Money and Postage Stamp Engravers and their Work from the 1700s to the
Euro. Gene Hessler, Cincinnati,
OH, USA, 2005, x+381pp. (260mm x 178mm) Hard boundwith a multi-coloured paper
cover. {A four page supplement was included with my copy of the book when it
was purchased in 2005: Additions and Corrections: The International
Engraver's Line by Gene Hessler.}
John
Dickinson and his Silk-Thread Paper. Harry Dagnall,
Leicester, UK, 1975, 32pp. (255mm x 177mm) Pamphlet with yellow card cover.
A Victorian
postal stationery envelope made from Dickinson's silk-thread paper is inserted
in an envelope attached to the inside back cover.
Masterpieces of Engraving on Postage
Stamps 1840-1940. Robson Lowe. Postal History Society,
London, UK, 1943, 96pp. (250mm x 190mm) Price 1 guinea (GBP1.10) Hard bound in
light blue. Lettered in dark blue across the front and up the spine. Includes a
dust jacket. Sold in aid of the Red Cross
and St. John Stamp Fund.
Postage
Stamp Printing by Fred J Melville. A lecture
to the Master Printers' Association , February
4th 1925. 19pp.
Postage
Stamps in the Making by Fred J Melville
1916.
Volume 1, Stanley Gibbons,
London, 1916, iv+198pp. (275mm x 190mm) Hard bound in dark green cloth, lettered
in gold across the spine.Although this book was
announced as out of print shortly after the First World War, a small unbound
stock remained at the printers and was not discovered until 1935. (Gibbons'
Stamp Monthly, April 1935, Volume 8, Issue 7, pp.140 & v.)This book was completed by John
Easton, q.v. and published in 1949 as: Postage
Stamps in the Making, by
way of a memorial to Melville.
Postage
Stamps in the Making by John Easton and
Fred J Melville. Hardback. Update
of the 1916 Melville book. Faber & Faber, London,
U.K., 1949, 246pp. + 52 plates. (220mm x 140mm) Hard bound in red cloth with
gold lettering across the spine. The title has a blue background in the form of
a postage stamp. Includes dust jacket.
Printers
and Printing in Philately by John Alden
1976. 76pp Picton Publishing,
Chippenham, UK, 1976, x+76pp. (202mm x 202mm) Soft bound pamphlet. Includes a brief biography
of the author on the outside back cover.
Printing
Postage Stamps by Line Engraving by James
H Baxter 1939. 164pp hardback. Limited Edition.
Quarterman Publications,
Lawrence MA, USA, 1981, x+164pp. (230mm x 150mm) Hardbound in grey cloth with
black letters across the front and down the spine, with a dust jacket.
{Facsimile of the 1939 American Philatelic Society edition. Picture of the author facing
the title page.
Stamp
Printing by T Brightmore. 30pp stapled
softback. Undated.
Techniques of Philately
by LN & M Williams. 134pp hardback.
Watermark 74.
Colin Chen. Handbook of an exhibition
held at Paper Point, 64 Poland Street, London, UK, 13th September/1st
November 1974, n.pp. (32pp.). (210mm x 150mm) White card cover.
'The
Big Read'
In 2003,
the British Broadcasting Corporation in
the UK launched The Big Read. It was designed
to stimulate interest in books and reading.
Print
Week magazine
decided to compile a list of ten books that
you must read if you love print as part
of its support for this project. The chosen
works were (not in any particular order,
apparently):
Achievement
in Photo-Engraving and Letterpress Printing
(Engraver's Association, Chicago 1927)
Encyclopaedia of
Type Faces (P Jaspert, W Berry and A F Johnson,
Blandford Press 1953)
Typographica
(John Johnson, 1824)
Paper
making
(British Paper and Board Makers Association,
1950)
The
Endless Web, John Dickinson & Co 1804-1954
(Joan Evans 1950s)
Illusions
Perdue [Lost Illusions] (Honore de Balzac
1843)
Rabbit
Redux (John Updike 1969)
Five
Hundred Years of Printing (S H Steinburg
1955)
The
Gutenberg Revolution (John Man)
Real
World Colour Management (B Fraser, F Bunting
& C Murphy 2003)
Philatelic
Bibliographic Web-site Links
American
Philatelic Society Periodicals Database
This is the
site to visit if you require an in-depth
listing of periodicals that contain philatelic
articles - not just on printing-related
subjects.
http://stamps.org/about-the-library
eBay Auction website
Books and collectables relating
to stamp printing will sometimes be found
among the Stamps section of eBay
eBay
search for "Printing"
eBay
search for "Printers"
Graphics Philately
Association
The Graphics Philately
Association is an informal, non-profit organization
of people who have a mutual interest in
printing and the graphic arts as represented
on stamps and other philatelic materials.
Some of the members
of the Association are professionals in
the fields of printing and graphic arts;
some are printing hobbyists. Some
are involved not at all in those fields
except for an interest in the stamps that
illustrate them.
http://www.graphics-stamps.org/
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