Printing Block
A copper printing plate mounted onto a block of wood. The plate has an image of The Landing Of The Pilgrims by Adam Willaerts.
Printing Block
A copper printing plate mounted onto a block of wood. The plate has an image of the Porch At Offchurch by Edwin Toovey.
Printing Block
A copper printing plate mounted onto a block of wood. The plate has an image of a portrait of Alfred Holt by David Alison.
Printing Block
A copper printing plate mounted onto a block of wood. The plate has an image of a lithograph of Denby Villa by J. Brandard.
Printing Block
A copper printing plate mounted onto a block of wood. The plate bears a photographic image of the interior of the Leamington Spa Art Gallery.
Printing Block
A copper printing plate mounted onto a block of wood. The plate bears a photographic image of the interior of the Leamington Spa Art Gallery.
Printing Block
A copper printing plate mounted onto a block of wood. The plate bears a photographic image of the interior of the Leamington Spa Art Gallery.
Printing Block
A copper printing plate mounted onto a block of wood. The plate bears a photographic image of the interior of Leamington Library.
Printing Block
A square, wooden printing block with trapezoidal copper shapes attached. It was used for an Ecclesiastical Heraldry book cover.
Printing Plate
A steel printing plate, used to create an advert for the Garden News. It depicts a man reading the magazine whilst smoking a pipe, surrounded by flowers.
Printing Plate
A copper printing plate mounted onto a block of wood depicting an image of the Free Public Library, Leamington Spa.
Printing Plate
This printing plate was used to print publicity for the Smallholder magazine. The printing plate depicts a view of a man reading the magazine.
Randolph Turpin - Newspaper Cutting
A newspaper cutting from Leamington Spa. It welcomes home Randolph Turpin after he become the World Middle Weight Boxing Champion. It features an enquiry into a misleading broadcast, 13th July 1951.
Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1577 - Volume 1 title page
Shakespeare’s major sourcebook for the history plays.
Raphael (or Ralph) Holinshed began his career in London as a translator and worked on a history of the world of which the sections on England ...
Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1587 - binding back board detail
The craft of the bookbinder in Shakespeare’s time.
Ornamental tools, which had a metal rolling piece were heated over hot charcoal, and then used to decorate the leather ‘blindly’ ...
Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1587 - binding view
Books for Shakespeare’s library use.
Large folio volumes such as this were frequently kept in college libraries, or libraries in great houses, often chained to the reading desks. Although the ...
Raphael Holinshed, The... Chronicles, 1587 - binding, front board.
An ornamented binding on a large ‘folio’ volume of Shakespeare's time.
This copy of the enlarged edition of Holinshed's Chronicles has its original leather binding which covers heavy wooden ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Printers woodcuts, details. p.90v
The hand-press was well-known to Shakespeare.
In the 1580s when William Shakespeare came to London the Stationers' Company had been established for thirty years, since 1557, and it attempted to control ...