Bosshard's Printing Primer


The Letterpress Pages

Sources for Letterpress Materials

(Please note that some of these sources may be out of business. This list is made from sources I've used over the past several decades. If you are able to provide any updates to this listing, please contact me via e-mail and I'll gladly update this information.)


Type Foundries

M&H Type
460 Bryant Street, San Francisco CA 94107
Phone: 415-777-0716

Quaker City Type Foundry
R.R. 3, Box 134, Honey Brook, PA 19344
Phone: 610-942-3637

Acme Type Foundry
Chicago, IL
(More information will follow)

Sterling Type Foundry
P.O. Box 50234, Indianapolis, Indiana 46250

Lettern-Service Ingolstadt
Theodor-Heuss-Str. 49a * Postfach 227 * D-8070 Ingolstadt * Germany



Printing Equipment & Supplies

NA Graphics
Spacing material, border & rule, press parts, leads, quoins, rollers, etc.
P.O. Box 43038, Cincinnati, OH 45243-0038;

Kayenay Graphics

P.O. Box 240, 149 Fourth Street, S.W Mason City, IA 50401
Engravings and embossing dies

Royal Engraving
LaCrosse, Wisconsin


Publications

Type & Press
Letterpressed from metal types Feb., May, Aug., & Nov.
Fred Williams, 24667 Heather Ct., Hayward, CA 94545.

The Printer
Michael & Sally Phillips, editors-publishers,
337 Wilson Street, Findlay, OH 45840 USA
419-422-4958 fax 419-423-2472


Books


Platen Press Operation
(Details to Follow)

Printing As A Hobby
J. Ben Lieberman
The New American Library, 1301 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019

Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing
Herbert Davis and Harry Carter, ed.
Dover Publications, 180 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014

Books and Printing
A Treasury for Typophiles
Paul Bennett, ed.
The World Publishing Co., 2231 W 110th St., Cleveland, Ohio

Letterpress Resource Handbook
Briar Press, 364 Long Hill Road E., Briarcliff, NY 10510


Organizations

American Printing History Association (APHA)

Amalgamated Printer's Association (APA)



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