Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Printing tradesmen, p.90v.
Printing books in Shakespeare's time.
By the time of William Shakespeare the printing trade had been established in England for a hundred years since William Caxton first set up a press in London in ...
Rugby. High Street
High Street, Rugby, showing horse drawn vehicles including a cab and pedestrians. Near left of photograph is George E. Over, stationers and printers. photo no. The Photochrom Co. Ltd. 34422. 1900s
Rugby. Warwick Street junction with Dunchurch Road
Road junction showing [Albert] Frost's Printing Offices, 1, Warwick Road; A. Hall's Basket Maker, 38 Dunchurch Road, (also had 2 Sheep Street); W[illiam] Daynes Photographer, (in 1884 he had moved to ...
Social Economy
This page from Punch contains 'Social Economy', a cartoon by George Louis Palmella Du Maurier. The original drawing is also in the collection of Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum. Punch magazine was ...
Southam. High Street, nos. 4&5
4 & 5, High Street, Southam; showing S A Pittom, stationers and printers and Jackie, hairdressers. c. 1973
Sunday Football
This page from Punch contains 'Sunday Football', a cartoon by George Louis Palmella Du Maurier. The original drawing is also in the collection of Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum. Punch magazine ...
Tailor & Cutter Magazine
The Tailor & Cutter
20th June 1947
Vol 82 No.4207
Pages 417 - 432
The Tailor & Cutter was a trade journal and magazine published between 1866 and 1972. For some, if not all, of this time it was ...
The Birmingham Gazette
A single sheet newspaper from a copy of The Birmingham Gazette on the 8th May 1926. The newspaper discusses the country wide strikes and attempts to prevent the movement of food. The strike of 1926, known ...
The Birmingham Gazette
A single sheet newspaper from a copy of The Birmingham Gazette on the 8th May 1926. The newspaper discusses the country wide strikes and attempts to prevent the movement of food. The strike of 1926, known ...
The Graphic
A copy of The Graphic dated the 15th October 1870.
The Height of Masherdom
This page from Punch contains 'The Height of Masherdom', a cartoon by George Louis Palmella Du Maurier. The original drawing is also in the collection of Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum. Punch magazine ...
The Midland Daily Telegraph
A single sheet newspaper from a copy of The Midland Daily Telegraph on the 10th May 1926. The newspaper discusses the country wide strikes and attempts to prevent the movement of food, as well as the ...
The Special News
A single sheet newspaper from a copy of The Special News on the 8th May 1926. The newspaper discusses the actions of the railway and transport trade unions to prevent the movement of food. The strike ...
Warwick And Warwickshire Advertiser and the Leamington Gazette
A copy of the Warwick And Warwickshire Advertiser and the Leamington Gazette dated 3 December 1887.
Wayzgoose for Coventry Printers
Group photograph of workers during an annual outing.
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - binding view
A smart 19th century binding on a Shakespeare 'quarto'.
The ‘quarto’ editions of Shakespeare’s work were published as slim pamphlets. The original binding of this volume, would probably ...
William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1608 [1619] - quarto title page.
Title page information about Shakespeare's the play of King Lear.
This 'quarto' page is from the edition with a false earlier date on the title-page, published by Thomas Pavier without the permission ...
William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, 1631 - title page detail
Shakespeare’s acting company and their theatres.
In Shakespeare's time companies of actors needed a patron to exist within the law. The title-page of a 'quarto' paperback edition of one of Shakespeare's ...