Book Review: Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture by Kathy Ferguson

In Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture, Kathy Ferguson considers the ways in which printers bolstered anarchist movements across the US and UK from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s. More than just a means of spreading ideas, Ferguson posits printing, writing and reading as radical, creative acts essential to community-building within anarchist movements, writes Layla Saleh. Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture. Kathy Ferguson...

Typographic Firsts: Adventures in Early Printing, a new book from John Boardley

Typographic Firsts: Adventures in Early Printing ( attr(href) ) How were the first fonts made? Who invented italics? When did we work out how to print in color? John Boardley’s ( attr(href) ) award-winning book, Typographic Firsts, charts the formative early history of the printed or typographic book. Many of the standard features of the printed book were designed by pioneering typographers and printers in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Although Johannes Gutenberg is credited wi...

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