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The Legacy Press

The Legacy Press, founded by Cathleen A. Baker in 1997, specializes in books about the paper...

Read about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created...

Brandts Danmarks Mediemuseum is the name of the former Danish Museum of Printing/Danish Press...

The Devil’s Artisan (DA) first appeared in 1980. The magazine...

Historical pictures and information about printing, printing machines, and the profession.

Metal Type

Metal Type is for people who remember the “good old days” of hot metal typesetting and...

Rare Book School (RBS) is an independent, non-profit institute...

This web site is designed to introduce the reader to the unique story of private press printing in...

The Library at Massey College has special collections in the History of the Book as well as a...

Letterpress.ch

letterpress.ch is the home page of “Association Lettres et Images”. Its main focus:...

Typecase Layouts

David Bolton of the Alembic Press has collected an astounding variety of...

The aim of the Institut d’histoire du livre is to develop long-term research activities based...

Linotype enthusiasts: this Italian web site features a wealth of information and photos on the...

A brief overview of the history of type from Gutenberg to digital compostion from Foam Train Fonts.

Type & Press

Fred Williams published an elegant, small letterpressed journal from 1975 until 1999. He published...

Cary Collection

One of the country’s premier libraries on the history and practice of printing.The original...

One hundred examples of manuscripts and printed works, ranging from illuminated manuscripts to...

[Ed. note: the web site is currently offline.] A small exhibition discussing the relationship...