Type Collection

Kelmscott Press: Page from The Tale of Beowulf Printed in the Troy Type, c. 1895, (1914). Artist: William Morris
Kelmscott Press: Page from The Tale of Beowulf Printed in the Troy Type, c.1895, (1914). Page from The Tale of Beowulf Done Out of the Old English Tongue. Trans. By William Morris and A. J. Wyatt

Mergenthaler, Ottmar, 2nd Linotype Machine with Band, Invented By Him; 3rd Design He... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
2nd Linotype Machine with Band, invented By Ottmar Mergenthaler; 3rd design he invented at Smithsonian, 1917. The linotype machine was the first device that could easily

The Blind, Interiors of Library - Institute of The Blind, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
The Blind, Interiors of Library - Institute of The Blind, 1912. Reading braille

The Blind, Interiors of Library - Institute of The Blind, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
The Blind, Interiors of Library - Institute of The Blind, 1912. Woman with braille type

The International Exhibition: Mitchel's type-composing machine, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: Mitchel's type-composing machine, 1862. The compositor is in shape a right-angled triangle, placed horizontally

The International Exhibition: Besley's type-casting machine... 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: Besley's type-casting machine - from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company, 1862. Machine...exhibited by Messrs

The International Exhibition: Mitchel's type-distributing machine, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: Mitchel's type-distributing machine, 1862. The distributor is a small machine of circular form

Front page of Mercurius Civicus: Londons Intelligencer, February 1643, (1945)
Front page of " Mercurius Civicus: Londons Intelligencer", February 1643, (1945). Portraits of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria

Johann Gutenberg (1400-1468), 1936. Creator: Unknown
Johann Gutenberg (1400-1468), 1936. Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (c1398-1468) was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer and publisher who introduced printing to Europe

Set type broken up after use, the White Rose Press, Mexborough, South Yorkshire, 1968. Set type was broken up after use and separated out into specific compartments for storage

Title-Page of Coverdales English Bible, 1535. Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger
Title-Page of Coverdales English Bible, 1535. The Coverdale Bible by Myles Coverdale was the first complete Modern English translation of the Bible. From The Connoisseur Volume XCI, edited by F

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