A 2-day printing history conference
4-5 September 2012
SPEAKER PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED

 Between the Hall of Memory and Baskerville House in Birmingham, stands a sculptural tribute to John Baskerville. On the columns of Portland stone are reversed bronze letters spelling ‘Virgil’, the Roman poet whose works were printed by Baskerville in 1757 in the famous typeface that bears his name. A poem in praise of the printer appeared in the Aris’s Gazette in 1751, entitled ‘Industry and Genius’ from which the sculpture takes its name. The contribution made by printers, processes and products to their industry and the wider political and cultural world will be examined in this two day conference jointly organised by the Printing Historical Society and the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design. Papers will be presented on all aspects of ‘industry and genius’ of printing, including trade networks, structure of businesses, relationships with booksellers, publishers and authors, political and cultural significance and technical innovations.

SPEAKERS

Caroline Archer: Baskerville and the Birmingham printers: Anne Brady: The Queen’s primer: Malcolm Dick: Baskerville: industrialist, creative thinker, friend of the Enlightenment: Brian Foster: The Coalbrookdale Hoard: John Hinks: 18th century provincial printing in its urban context: Caroline Lafitte:‘Forced to pump for bread’-Grub Street plagiarism and the first women’s periodical: Paul Laidler: Digital publications and technical innovations-the collaborative print studio in the digital age: Val Loggie: ‘Both useful, elegant, and ornamental’-James Bisset’s Magnificent Directories of Birmingham: David Osbaldestin: the making of the Baskerville and Caslon animations: Geff Pulaski: The Grasshopper: Graham Short: Putting the art into artisan: Vaibhav Singh: British compositors and the Devanagari script, 1796-1896: And much more!

TICKETS

£30 for Printing Historical Society members | £45 for non-members

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND BOOKING

http://www.printinghistoricalsociety.org.uk

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Francis Cave, Hon. Secretary, Printing Historical Society
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Francis Cave, Hon. Secretary, Printing Historical Society
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