Date: 20+21 October 2003
Event: Annual Friends of StBride Conference.
Theme: “Hidden typography”

A 20 minute talk about the Artown and the Archiving is boring experiment.

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About StBride:
St Bride Library was opened in 1895. It was both a technical library and printing school; the school eventually moved out and is now the London College of Communication.

The view from St Brides - 1899

From the beginning the Library served the printing trade but was also a great collection of typographic literature that incorporated the library of William Blades, master printer and author of a study of William Caxton. Other important collections were added, including those of Talbot Baines Reed, a type founder and historian, and John Southward, a technical print journalist. These initial purchases gave the Library the basis of an excellent compilation of early printing, as well as unrivalled collections of catalogues, prospectuses and specimens.

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