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  • Printing: inking the type and operating the press (above), plan of the press (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • A rotary lithographic [?] printing machine, tended by workmen, some wearing paper hats. Engraving.
  • A man block printing on textiles. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A specimen of printing types / Joseph Fry and Sons, letter-founders, Worship-Street, Moorfields.
  • A specimen of printing types / Joseph Fry and Sons, letter-founders, Worship-Street, Moorfields.
  • [Leaflet advertising an appearance of a real mermaid and merman (caught off Terra del Fuego). Location not disclosed but printed in Lambeth (Phoenix Printing Office)].
  • A printing press: seen from the side. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • A printing press: seen from the side. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Printing engravings from copper plates: two men inking the plates, another operating the press (top), equipment (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Clarendon printing house, Oxford: with a glimpse of the Sheldonian Theatre behind. Aquatint by T. Malton.
  • A man engaged in block printing a piece of cloth. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A laundry maid leaning out of a sash window to wring out a wet garment. Rotogravure by Rembrandt Intaglio Printing Co. Ltd. after P. Dawe after H. Morland.
  • A laundry maid leaning out of a sash window to wring out a wet garment. Rotogravure by Rembrandt Intaglio Printing Co. Ltd. after P. Dawe after H. Morland.
  • A printing press, rolling press, cider press and potash kiln with constituent parts. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • A printing press, for copper plates, with many details. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Engineering: a printing machine with two platens. Lithograph by Martin and Hood, 1852, after C.J. Light.
  • Printing: a three-quarter view of a Bacon & Donkins press, with a detail of the eccentric gearing. Coloured engraving by W. Lowry after J. Farey, 1819.
  • Printing: a three-quarter view of a press made by Bacon & Donkins, with a detail of the eccentric gearing. Engraving by W. Lowry after J. Farey, 1819.
  • Many types of printing press, with details of their mechanisms. Engraving by W. H. Lizars after himself, 1830.
  • Many types of printing machine, with details of their mechanisms. Engraving by W. H. Lizars after himself, 1830.
  • Textiles: a pair of large presses for block printing calico. Engraving by J. Carter after T. Allom, 1834.
  • A printing press: elevation, with details of the platen, etc. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Rue Neuve des Mathurins in Paris: the printing house of Cadart & Luce. Etching by A. Taiée, 187-.
  • Men working at a printing press, proofing copy, inking, and setting type. Wood engraving. 18--, after Stradanus, ca.1580.
  • Typesetting: lower case characters, compound characters and abbreviations for printing ancient Greek. Engraving by Laurent after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Rivalry between newspapers; caricatured by two men squirting printing ink at one another from either end of a table. Lithograph.
  • A log cabin, which housed the first printing press at the head of Lake Superior. Process print after a lithograph of 1855.
  • A printer's workshop: on the left a printing press, on the right and centre workmen engaged in various tasks, the scene numbered for a key. Engraving after L.J. Goussier.
  • A printing press with a pair of legs brandishes a quill wrapped around with hissing snakes and sends all those around it flying off. Coloured etching by Paul Pry (William Heath).
  • A woman personifying typography crowns a naked boy with a golden serpent; representing printing conferring immortality on the arts, sciences and literature. Coloured engraving by E. J. Roberts after H.J. Richter.