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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 3

Our Exchanges

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Our Exchanges

The British Printer comes to us all together—a neatly-bound volume for 1888, for which we thank the editor, Mr Hilton—and the first number of the second volume. This is not only a technical journal of the first rank, but is also the most beautifully-printed of all the home trade papers. It comes from the capable hands of Messrs Raithby & Lawrence, Leicester, who evidently take no little pride in its appearance. Our sole regret is, that there is so little of the « British » element about it. The English founders—who, if they choose, might take the lead—are almost unrepresented here. They most unwisely ignore the trade press, and the trade journals retaliate by silence. With every desire to give all prominence to English novelties, and with the advantage of being in direct communication with more than one of the great foundries, we ourselves can only note a new English production three or four times in the year. The German element, (and in a secondary degree the American), pervades the British Printer. Page after page is occupied with specimens of German novelties—and beautiful designs they are—while the ink with which the paper is printed is from Kast & Ehinger.

The Paper and Printing Trades Journal, Mr Tuer's 80-page quarterly, is crowded as ever with trade news, criticisms, and original notions. There are some more « Optical Illusions, » and some clever specimens of rule-work. Nothing seems to escape the observant editor, and this periodical is the most complete record of trade matters—all the world over—that reaches us.

Paper and Press for April contains some beautiful plates illustrative of high-class « process » work. It also contains an interesting illustrated article on the new Bingham process of roller-casting, in which the composition is forced upward from the bottom of the moulds. The advantages of this system are obvious. All the air is driven out as the composition rises, and the bubbles, streaks, hollows, and annoying flat patches which occur in spite of every precaution in the old system are avoided. This firm undertakes to cast absolutely perfect rollers—seamless, and without so much as a pinhole in the surface.

The Inland Printer for May overflows with original practical articles and art illustrations. Two engravings of Denver, Colorado,—one in 1858, the other in 1888—strikingly illustrate Western progress. In the first there is a background of mountains, a patch of forest, a bullock-team, a log-hut, and two wigwams. In the second, all is changed save the mountains. The plain is occupied by a large and thriving city, with beautiful suburbs.

The proportion of advertisements to text in trade papers is very variable; but the most extreme instance we have yet seen is the issue of I'lmprimerie Belge for 20th May—containing twelve quarto pages of advertisements, and not a single line of reading matter. This paper is evidently a good property.

It is a long time since the American Lithographer and Printer published an art supplement. With the issue for 25th May, there is a very fine one,—three photo-engravings by Wolfe's half-tone process. The blocks will bear comparison with the best process work in the market.—This journal has now been chosen as the official organ of American litho-artists—a well deserved compliment.