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Notes on Barry and the origins of the picture collection.
The La Trobe Journal
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September 22, 2004|
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It is difficult for such of us as have emigrated hither from Europe, to conceive the disadvantages under which the rising generation will labour in respect to the familiarity with objects worthy of admiration in architecture, painting, statuary, and other branches of art ...
Argus, 9 November 1861
UNTANGLING THE threads of the histories of the Library's collections has often been based on the discovery, and re-discovery, of interesting things no longer collected, and speculation on why and how they came to be there. For the Picture Collection many of these ...
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ALAN DODSON ; Printer expert in Caslon types
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...the 18th-century typefounder William Caslon. To those of us who also delighted...about the history and use of the Caslon types, describing them as rather...printed examples of all time of William Caslon's types. A significant collection...
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Dueling Caslons
Magazine article from: Step - by -Step Graphics
; ...revived typeface designs is that of William Caslon. It has been reissued, recreated...CARICATURES For the most part, the Caslon revivals created for metal typesetting...were sensitive interpretations of William Caslon's original text fonts. Later...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Cast an eye over these printing types.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...with the type he produced, is William Caslon, and he came from Cradley Heath...as to their source led him to William Caslon. There is, after all, little...the pounds 500 needed to set up William Caslon in business in Old Street. What...
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Let Me Take You by the Hand.(Bruno Maag and colleagues on a christmas outing)
Magazine article from: Creative Review
; ...a particularly nasty bit of the City. We bowed to William Caslon's type, displayed on a large metal plaque just outside...saw God. I would have preferred it to be honouring William Caslon. Besides some nice ligatures and swash capitals...
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 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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DIGITAL AGE SPAWNS NEW TYPEFACES.(BUSINESS)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
; ...credited with inventing movable type, to the time of William Caslon of Britain in the 18th century through the lifetime...revival of fonts that ``hit a classical chord.'' Caslon, named after the 18th century designer, remains a...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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The sound of silence; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...probably run into hundreds. In 1944, William Brace started an organisation called the...Essex. ADANA Ltd was taken over by Caslon Ltd in 1989. It continued to supply machines...the Adana operation was absorbed into Caslon Ltd in London. MICHAEL J. R. SMITH...
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New Type for a New Era.(NEWSWEEK's new typeface)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
Magazine article from: Newsweek
; ...by high production costs, abandoned the foundry of William Caslon in the middle of printing a run of Bibles. The publisher commissioned Figgins to mimic the Caslon face. Vincent has been updated for NEWSWEEK by Matthew...
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 "AAP General News (Australia)")
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Vic: History punctuated by fakes and forgeries
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia)
; ...Australian internet research consultant Caslon Analytics notes. Of course, fraud and...on the shroud's authenticity, while Caslon also notes the forged letter from Jesus...claims of discoveries of new manuscripts by William Shakespeare, as well as one "discovery...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Deaths: Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor, 1002; William Baffin, explorer, 1622; William Caslon, typefounder, 1766; John Cleland, author of Fanny Hill, 1789; William Pitt the Younger, statesman, 1806; John...
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`Publishing Timeline' Takes Readers on A Global Tour Of Civilizations and Their Impact on the Graphic Arts.
Magazine article from: Printing News
; ...shop in colonial America and, by 1690, William Rittenhouse had finished building the first...Benjamin Franklin, Giambattista Bodoni, William Bulmer, Nicholas-Louis Robert, William Caslon, and many others. Endless Transformations...
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