Collection on Letterpress Printing

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: BCA 0312

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Collection on Letterpress Printing comprises a variety of 15th through 20th century hand printed items that were found on the shelves of Hutchins Library's Special Collections and Archives department. The collection was created in 2025 to enable discoverability of the individual resources.

Dates

Publication: 1460 - 1971
Creation: Majority of material found within 1460 - 1611

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research in the Special Collections and Archives reading room.

Extent

1 boxes_(general)

21 folders

Language of Materials

Latin

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This study collection is a gathering of printed book leaves, page fragments and broadsides from the handpress era (1451-1820) and from later handpress revivals. These resources may be of interest to persons studying book history, the history of printing, typography, languages, literature and design.

Related Materials

Additional early manuscript and printed Bible leaves are available for study in this Special Collections resource: Original leaves from famous Bibles : nine centuries 1121-1935 A.D. (Flat File Curio 220.5 O695) (https://bereacollege.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1434058170)