Year
Event Keyword

1869
Klingspor, Karl, d.1950. Type founder of Offenbach am Main, KLINGSPOR

1869
Harleian Society for the printing of heraldic material HARLEIAN

1870
Cockerell, Douglas, d.1945. Leading English teacher hand bookbinding COCKERELL

1870
German, studied at Hamburg School of Applied Art, Dresden BARLACH, ERNST

Academy, and Académie Julian in Paris. One of the most important

German expressionist artists. Some of the books he illustrated: Der

Tote Tag (1912), Der Arme Vetter (1919), Goethe Gedichte (1924),

Schiller: An Die Freude (1927).

1870
Rogers, Bruce, d.1957. American printer and typographer. Worked ROGERS, BRUCE

at the Cambridge University Press and the Oxford University Press.

Types designed by Rogers: Montaigne, Centaur

1872
(1872-1898). Self taught artist. Draughtsman who was primarily an BEARDSLEY, AUBREY VINCENT

illustrator, one of the most influential English artists of the nineties.

Books: The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur (1893-1894); Salome,

translated by Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (1894).

1872
Johnston, Edward, d.1944, British teacher of calligraphy JOHNSTON

1874
Kippenberg, Anton, d.1950. From 1905 director of Insel-Verlag KIPPENBERG

1874
Amy Lowell (1874-1925). The greatest of all American women LOWELL, AMY

collectors. Today her collection is housed in its own room on the

second floor of the Houghton Library at Harvard University.

1876
(1876-1957). Rumanian. Studied in art academies of Bucharest and BRANCUSI, CONSTANTIN

Cracow, emigrated to Paris 1904. One of the first abstract

sculptors. Also lithographic work. Book: Tales Told of Shem and

Shaun (James Joyce, 1929)

1876
Plantin-Moretus Museum acquired by the city of Antwerp PLANTIN

1877
Roos, Sjoerd de, d.1962. Leading Dutch type designer. Types: De ROOS, SJOERD DE

Roos Roman, Egmont, Hollandsche Mediaeval, Erasmus, Grotius.

1927 founded Heuvel Press

1878
Ehmcke, Fritz Helmut, d.1965, German graphic artist and type EHMCKE

designer, worked together with F.W.Kleukens

1878
Wicks, Frederick of Glasgow invented typecasting machine WICKS

1878
Renner, Paul, d.1956, type designer, sanserif series Futura. Wrote RENNER

Die Kunst der Typographie, published 1940

1878
Wicks, Frederick of Glasgow invented typecasting machine PRINTING

1878
Royen, Jean-Francois van, d.1942. Director of Zilverdistel Press. ROYEN

1878
Kleukens, Friedrich Wilhelm, d.1956. German graphic arts teacher, ERNST LUDWIG PRESS

director of Ernst Ludwig Press from 1907-1914. Founded the

Kleukens Presse in 1919 and the Mainzer Presse in 1929.

1878
Wicks, Frederick of Glasgow invented typecasting machine TYPECASTING

1878
Kleukens, Friedrich Wilhelm, d.1956. German graphic arts teacher, KLEUKENS

director of Ernst Ludwig Press from 1907-1914. Founded the

Kleukens Presse in 1919 and the Mainzer Presse in 1929.

1879
Regemorter, Berthe van, d.1964. Belgium bookbinder BINDING

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