This book is new in that it discusses ephemera as an aspect of design history, showing how function, process and period have affected the changing appearance of

This book explores the closely interwoven printing histories of Britain and America. American colonial printers and engravers imported British type and equipmen

This history of printed ephemera's rise as an eighteenth-century cultural category transforms understanding of 'disposable' printed items.

This book explores English single sheet satirical prints published from 1780-1820, the people who made those prints, and the businesses that sold them. It exami

The celebrated text on the history of the book, completely revised, updated and expanded The revised and updated edition of The Companion to the History of the