Year
Event Keyword

1841
paperback. First paperbacks by Tauchnitz Verlag Germany PAPERBACK

1843
Paper, first time use wood for making paper PAPER

1844
Lanston, Tolbert, d.1913, inventor of monotype typesetting MONOTYPE

1848
Bampton Press' foundation date. BAMPTON PRESS

1848
Chatto's 'History and Art of Wood Engraving' published WOOD ENGRAVING

1848
Marx, Karl: 'Das Kapital' published MARX

1850
Heidelberg, First press made by Andreas Hamm HEIDELBERG

1850
Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927), millionaire entrepreneur built a HUNTINGTON

library on the grounds of an old orange grove in Sam Marino in

Southwest California. Library is amongst the finest in the world.

1853
Photographic Society of London founded by Sir Charles Eastlake. PHOTOGRAPHY

1853
Nature Printing developed by Alois Auer AUER

1853
Auer, Alois, invents nature printing technique (direct duplication of NATURE PRINTING

natural objects)

1854
Mergenthaler, Ottmar, d.1899 from Hachtel, Germany, invented MERGENTHALER

linotype in 1884

1854
Société Française de Photographie founded by Eugène Durieu. PHOTOGRAPHY

1854
Mergenthaler, Ottmar, d.1899 from Hachtel, Germany, invented LINOTYPE

linotype in 1884

1856
First general treatise on the various applications of photography to KESSLER, GEORG

the printing press published by Georg Kessler in Berlin.

1856
First general treatise on the various applications of photography to PHOTOGRAPHY

the printing press published by Georg Kessler in Berlin.

1857
Bullen, Henry Lewis, d.1938, creator of American Type Founders AMERICAN TYPE FOUNDERS

Company Library and Museum in Jersey City.

1857
Bullen, Henry Lewis, d.1938, creator of American Type Founders BULLEN

Company Library and Museum in Jersey City.

1857
John Pouncy's DORSETSHIRE PHOTOGRAPHICALLY ILLUSTRATED PHOTOGRAPHY

was the first book illustrated by photolithography, two volumes

containing 79 plates in total.

1857
Haebler, Konrad, d.1946. German bibliographer, research and HAEBLER

writings on incunabula. Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke

1857
John Pouncy's DORSETSHIRE PHOTOGRAPHICALLY ILLUSTRATED POUNCY, JOHN.

was the first book illustrated by photolithography, two volumes

containing 79 plates in total.

1859
Hupp, Otto, German engraver and type-cutter HUPP

1859
McLeish, Charles, d.1949. Binder of Edinburgh, worked for the DOVES PRESS

Doves Bindery

1859
Thomas J. Wise (1859-1937), best known for the forgeries of WISE

nineteenth-century pamphlets he cleverly produced and sold to

unexpecting wealthy collectors.

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