This volume comprises essays presented at the 1996 Roanoke (Va.) International Conference on Watermarks, where chemists, engineers, experts in digital photography, book dealers, book collectors, librarians, literary scholars, cartographers, and historians discussed the evidence provided by watermarks and paper stocks. Topics include using watermark

Founded in 1818, Stephenson, Blake, and Company became the dominant British typefounding business, dealing with challenges from the linotype industry and the computer revolution that eventually sounded their death-knell in the 1990s. Millington, the company's honorary archivist and librarian, here recounts its history from beginning to end. Annotat

The final volume of Symington's (1887-1961) 20-volume Shakespeare Head Bronte apparently was not ready for publication when World War II broke out, and was set aside. The original galley proofs with a number of amendments in his hand, which Dame Daphne du Maurier acquired, form the basis of this first publication. The bibliography includes the work

The Scottish-born McLean tells all about building his career as a designer, typographer, and author in London's postwar publishing scene. McLean played a central role in British graphic design from the 1940s to the 1980s, designing and editing Motif and penning the well-known Thames and Hudson Manual of Typography . His life story, from hot type to