Printing block, 1976.

Japanese wooden printing block with oriental characters.

Printer's composing stick, mid-18th century.

Printing blocks from a Japanese typewriter, c 1930.

Calico printing, 1835.

Label for a bottle of chloride of soda, c 1820.

'Manchester's New Station', British Railways poster, c 1960.

The compositor's desk, c 1928.

Cover to 'Stationary engine driving', 1881.

Ingram rotary machine, London, 1879.

'Silk Mercer', c 1845.

Petrified wood block. Light micrograph in