Typography TuesdayThe Soulby Collection: a 19th century printer’s archive. The John Soulby Col
Typography TuesdayThe Soulby Collection: a 19th century printer’s archive. The John Soulby Collection comprises approximately 500 items of provincial jobbing printing produced in Ulverston, Cumbria, by John Soulby jr. between 1821 and 1827, including posters, notices, handbills, trade cards, billheads, receipts and a variety of other jobbing work. Many items in the collection are proof items, with letters missing, wrong fonts, manuscript corrections to copy, or smudges from testing if the ink was dry, providing an insight into the working processes of the jobbing printer. Many items have a manuscript note stating the name of the client and size of the print run. The collection showcases a variety of display typefaces including fat face, Egyptian, Italian and shaded letter. The items also demonstrate the use of variegated type for notices, signs and posters.The items had originally been pasted into a blue paper guard book along with some twenty items by other north country printers; perhaps by John Soulby as a record of his own work. The collection was acquired from Roger Warner of Burford by the Museum of English Rural Life at The University of Reading in 1965, for £30. It had originally been obtained in Ulverston from descendants of the Soulby family. The collection is now permanently housed in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication. For any enquiries relating to the collections at Typography and Graphic Communication or if you would like to arrange a visit please contact Laura Weill ([email protected]), Collections Administration Assistant. -- source link
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