New Zealand Ephemerist

The US company that hosts this website will be undertaking equipment maintenance on the 1st of July at 11.00 MST (US time).

This site will be affected for a couple of hours which will be in the afternoon of 2 July NZ time.

Lawrence

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The Annual General Meeting of the Society will be held on Monday the 20th of July starting at 7.30pm. The venue is Risingholme Community Centre in Opawa, Christchurch. Information on how to get there can be had from their website www.risingholme.org.nz

More information will be posted on this site as it becomes available.

Lawrence

Issue 2 of The NZ Ephemerist has been reviewed by Alan Loney in Melbourne. You can find the review on his blog site here: http://alanloney.blogspot.com/

Lawrence

Issue 2 of the Journal has been posted. Anyone not receiving their copy by around 1 April please let me know.

Lawrence

Issue 2 of the Journal is with the printer and we expect to start posting copies at the end of the week.

Lawrence

Officers of the Society have been appointed and are as follows:

Chairperson: Lawrence Roberts
Vice-Chairperson: Barry Hancox
Secretary: Lawrence Roberts
Treasurer: Barry Hancox

Other Committee roles:

Editor: Barry Hancox
Editorial Committee: Graham French, Barry Hancox, Sally Hunter, Gail Ross
Institutional Liaison: Gail Ross
Publications: Lawrence Roberts
Web Master: Lawrence Roberts

The full membership of the Committee is: Graham French, Barry Hancox, Sally Hunter, Ken Liddicoat, Lawrence Roberts, and Gail Ross,

For those interested in letterpress printing, perhaps the biggest single source of desirable ephemera, here are a few links from the site www.letterpress.org.nz The list is very incomplete but a chance to start somewhere.

NZ

The Print History Project. A Wellington based site looking at the history of print in that area. To quote the site: ” This website features the lives, businesses, and works of those many printers, publishers, booksellers and other book trade personnel who contributed to the print landscape of Wellington from 1840-2000.”

The Wai-te-ata Press, based at Victoria University. In their words: ” Wai-te-ata Press is a centre for research, lectures, demonstrations, and practical applications in printing history, information technology and design, communication theory, and cultural studies.”

Canada

Canadian private presses are listed on the Collections Canada site and can be accessed here. This is the library and archives site for the government of Canada.

Switzerland

Swiss Letterpress Homepage The Association Lettres et Images in Geneva, Switzerland was established to preserve the skills and knowledge of hot-metal typography and retain the aesthetic qualities that are contained in letterpress printed work. The Association has a large collection of machines and accessories that are brought into use in the workshops run by the organisation. The site has numerous links to other letterpress sites.

U.K.

The Alembic Press, proprietor Claire M Bolton, is a Fine Press creating and printing limited edition books by traditional letterpress. The website, operated by David Bolton, contains information about the Press and its books plus a very wide range of letterpress information.

Private Presses of the U.K. This web page presents a number of presses who are actively producing books in the UK by letterpress and generally with original illustrations to accompany new texts.

The St Bride Printing Library is one of the specialist public reference libraries of the Corporation of London. Its world-famous collections cover printing and related subjects: paper and binding, graphic design and typography, typefaces and calligraphy, illustration and printmaking, publishing and book-selling, the social and economic aspects of the printing, book, newspaper and magazine trades

A for something much different, try Metal Type . It is a site where “If you have worked as a Linotype operator, letterpress compositor, letterpress printer, journalist, etc. and have some memories to share, please get in touch.” Some very interesting anecdotes, including a few from New Zealand and Australia.

U.S.

The Amalgamated Printers Association consists of both hobby and professional printers. Their website has an extensive resource guide.

The Briar Press site, probably the single best letterpress site around, has an on-line printing museum, a place to buy and sell printing equipment, and numerous other resources of value to overseas as well as US printers.

The National Amateur Press Association is the oldest Amateur Press group in the world. For over 125 years the organization has been dedicated to the furtherance of Amateur Journalism as a hobby. Its website contains a wealth of letterpress information.

The Five Roses Press contains a number of pages of letterpress information to “… start you on your way in this exciting, challenging, rewarding and anachronistic avocation, (providing) an introduction, freshly prepared for the start of the new millennium, to the people, places, and online resources that will save you a great deal of time as you embark upon your letterpress activities.” The site also provides a bibliography of typography and allied subjects.

Printing on the Iron Handpress. This is the web site of Richard-Gabriel Rummonds, author of the book Printing on the Iron Handpress, the ideal driver’s manual for anyone with an Albion, Columbian, or Washington press. It is also extremely useful for those wanting to understand the basic letterpress system that operated until the beginning of the 19th C.

Private Press File: a web page at the Missouri University Library with information on the private presses that produced materials which are owned at MU Libraries. A very extensive list with some details beyond the name, proprietor and location.

Malcolm Warrington has a delightful site containing images and text covering Victorian scraps, cards and other printed ephemera.

The site is here

Lawrence

The Society achieved incorporated status on the 23rd day of January 2009. It is now officially The New Zealand Society of Ephemerists Incorporated

A copy of the Society’s rules are held at the office of the Registrar of Incorporated Societies and will be available on-line from that office. At some stage soon I will put a copy on this site as well.

Lawrence

Sometimes I can’t find things that are right under my nose! Here is a link to a very interesting New Zealand ephemera website called Kiwi Ephemera

Lawrence