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Deadlines For The Donald Milham Prize & PHS Grants 2009
Closing date for entries for the final year of the Donald Milham Prize is 5 November 2008. Prize winners for 2009 will be announced at the AGM in March 2009. Application deadline for PHS Grants is 1 January 2009. Awards will be announced at the PHS AGM in March 2009, for disbursal in April. For further details, see the Grants Programme on this website....

Donald Milham Prize 2008
Winners of the Donald Milham Prize for 2008 1st prize: David J. Clark 2nd prizes: Robert O. Bradley Kenneth R. Coles David C. Gladwell Brian K. Rees Brian Russell...

Grants For 2009 Details
The Printing Historical Society is pleased to continue its limited number of small grants for the fifth year, including: * Research on topics relating to the history of printing * Publishable reports on archives relating to the history of printing Grants are limited to historical research in: printing technology, the printing and related industries, printed materials and artefacts, type and typef...

Journal, New Series 11
The 11th volume of the new series has just appeared, the first to be edited by John Trevitt. It contains three articles, two with colour images, and 12 reviews. The articles: Nigel F. Palmer, Blockbooks: text and illustrations printed from wood blocks; Robert Banham, Nineteenth-century jobbing: the printing methods of Gye and Balne; Alan May, The one-pull press. Reviews are by Catherine Armstrong...

Index By Authors, PHS Journal New Series, 1-11 (2000-08)
Banham, Robert, Gye and Balne: printing families, n.s. 5 (2003) 17-42 Banham, Robert, Nineteenth-century jobbing: the printing methods of Gye and Balne, n.s. 11 (2008) 25-64 Barker, Nicolas, John Dreyfus, typographical adviser and historian: an obituary, n.s. 6 (2003) 3-6 Batey, Charles, see Ritter Boag, Andrew, Monotype and phototypesetting, n.s. 2 (2000) 57-77 Desmyter, see Oldham Flood, John L....

Donald Milham Award 2009: In The Print
The second half of the 20th century was a period of growth and affluence for British industry; for the printing industry it was a period of rapid change. Letterpress had gone just about as far as it could go in relation to reproduction quality and was slowly and surely slipping over the precipice. The copying machine spurned by the jobbing printer, was taken up by newcomers and with the aid of th...

Announcing The Donald Milham Award
The PHS is pleased to invite applications from members and former members of the printing industry for the Donald Milham Award. The Award will be made for written accounts about work experiences during the latter half of the 20th century, based on their usefulness to printing historians. For details, see the Grants Programme section of the site....

Grant Recipients For 2008
Recipients of the 2008 Grants for research in printing history are: Joseph J. Gwara for the study of 16th-century woodcut initials in English books Mei-Ying Sung for the study of the woodblock collection of 4000 blocks at the Huntington Library Angela Voulangas & Doug Clouse for assistance with the photographs for their book on artistic printing, Freaks of fancy Ryan Gillard for working up a be...

The Index Volumes 1 To 28 Of The Journal
The Index, compiled by Paul W. Nash, appeared in October 2005. It covers the Journals printed between 1965 and 1999 (our first series) and includes between 5,000 and 6,000 entries, from the early eighteenth-century Madrid printer Diego Martinez Abad, to Zuccato's Papyrograph. Printers, type designers and typefounders, printing processes, inventors, scholars of printing history, printing machinery...

Latest Publications
Journal, New Series 11 appeared in April 2008. PHN 18 appeared in Spring 2008. The Index to the Journal, vols 1-28, compiled by Paul Nash, appeared in October 2005. It covers the Journals printed between 1965 and 1999 (our first series) and includes between 5,000 and 6,000 entries, from the early eighteenth-century Madrid printer Diego Martinez Abad, to Zuccato's Papyrograph. Printers, type des...

Publications Series
The following publications are currently in print: 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) A Directory o...

PHN Printing History News
Replacing the Society's Bulletin, which was taken into the Journal with the beginning of the New Series in 2000, is PHN, a joint newsletter with the Friends of St Bride and the NPHT National Printing Heritage Trust. Anita Phillips edited PHN 1–5, and from PHN 6 Paul W. Nash became editor. PHN is currently appearing four times per year, and comes with membership of the Society....

Journal List
Volumes of the New Series are available to purchase, £ 16 each (members £ 8). Journal, New Series, 1 (2000). General issue, edited by Richard Lawrence and Christopher Burke: On Gutenberg's 600th anniversary: towards a history of jubilees of printing, John L. Flood; Trade cards of early British lithographers, Michael Twyman; Edward Crouch (c. 1622–1676): a poor printer in seventeenth-...

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