Stencil dies: new tools for an old trade

Traces the invention and development of stencil dies in the USA in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, focussing on the work of M. J. Metcalf, A. J. Fullam, and S. M. Spencer.

'The largest type in England': wood lettering for jobbing printing 1800–1830

Traces the development of new letterforms for printing in the first 30 years of the nineteenth century.