| YEAR | KEYWORD | EVENT |
|---|---|---|
| 1822 | HELIOGRAPHY | Invented by Niépce. He made his first photograph in 1826. |
| 1943 | HIGH HOUSE PRESS | High House Press closed (founded in 1924 by James Masters) |
| 1924 | HIGH HOUSE PRESS | High House Press founded by James Masters in Shaftesbury |
| -1900 | HITTITES | Hittites, from between 1900 and 1200 BC, left appr. 15,000 clay tablets |
| 1917 | HOGART PRESS | Hogart Press founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf |
| 1538 | HOLBEIN | Dance of Death with Holbein's illustrations printed in Lyon by Gaspar and Melchior Treschel |
| 1523 | HOLBEIN | Holbein's Dance of Death drawn. |
| 1497 | HOLBEIN | Holbein, Hans, d.1543. |
| 1538 | HOLBEIN | Holbein's Dance of Death published in Lyons |
| 1932 | HOLBROOK | Holbrook, Jackson. The fear of Books, published |
| 1673 | HOLLANDER | Hollander, paperpulp beating machine, probably by Jacob Honingh in Zaandijk, Holland |
| 1563 | HONDIUS | Hondius, Jodocus, d.1612, Dutch map engraver |
| 1465 | HOUSEBOOK, MASTER OF THE | The first drypoint engravings known in the history of prints are those of the MASTER OF THE HOUSEBOOK, active in Germany between 1465 and 1500. The technique was also used, though rarely, by Dürer, for example in his St. Jerome by a Pollard Willow (1512). |
| 1883 | HUNTER | Hunter, Dard, d.1966. Leading authority on papermaking |
| 1850 | HUNTINGTON | Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927), millionaire entrepreneur built a library on the grounds of an old orange grove in Sam Marino in Southwest California. Library is amongst the finest in the world. |
| 1859 | HUPP | Hupp, Otto, German engraver and type-cutter |
| 1906 | IABA | International Antiquarian Booksellers Assoc. founded |
| 1725 | IBARRA | Ibarra, Joaquim, d.1785, printer in Madrid, court printer to Carlos III |
| 1942 | ILAB | International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) founded |
| 1840 | ILLSTRATED LONDON NEWS | Illustrated London News founded |
| 1840 | ILLUSTRATION | Illustration, first issue |
| 1840 | ILLUSTRIERTE ZEITUNG | Illustrierte Zeitung first issue published |
| 1640 | IMITATIONE CHRISTI | Imprimerie Royale du Louvre established at the instigation of Richelieu, first book published 'De Imitatione Christi' |
| 1913 | IMPRINT, The | Imprint, The, periodical established by Charles Meynell, Edward Johnston and J.H.Mason |
| 1976 | INK JET | Ink-jet printing announced by IBM |
| 1902 | INSEL | Insel Verlag founed in Leipzig by Rudolf von Pöllnitz |
| 1477 | INTAGLIO | Intaglio. First book with intaglio illustrations 'Il Monte Sancto di Dio' published in Florence |
| 1951 | IOWA STATE LIBRARY | Iowa State University Library erected |
| 1967 | ISBN | ISBN started in Britain |
| 1733 | JACKSON | Jackson, Joseph, d.1792, London typecutter and founder |
| 1580 | JANNON | Jannon, Jean, d.1658, Geneva, punchcutter, typefounder and printer, worked in Sedan, France. |
| 1620 | JANSON | Janson, Anton, d.1687. Dutch typefounder, trained in Amsterdam by Christophel Plantin |
| 1596 | JANSSON | Jansson, Joannes, d. 1664, Dutch printer and publisher, famous for his atlasses |
| 1907 | JANUS PRESSE | Janus Presse, established in Leipzig by Carl Ernst Poeschel and walter Tiemann |
| 1420 | JENSON | Jenson, Nocolaus, d. 1480, punchcutter and printer of Venice |
| 1746 | JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY | Johnson's Dictionary, made in England, between 1746 and 1773 |
| 1872 | JOHNSTON | Johnston, Edward, d.1944, British teacher of calligraphy |
| 1860 | JONES | Jones, George W., d. 1942, Bitish master printer, founded The British Typographia in 1887 |
| 1540 | KEERE | Keere, Hendrik van den, d.1580. Punchcutter, binder and printer in Ghent, Belgium |
| 800 | KELLS | Kells, Book of. written and painted at the Columbian monastery of Iona or at the Abbey of Kells in Ireland. 340 folia survived. Since 1661 in Trinity College, Dublin |
| 1891 | KELMSCOTT | Kelmscott Press founded by William Morris and Emery Walker |
| 1893 | KELMSCOTT CHAUCER | Chaucer edition by William Morris, Kelmscott Chaucer |
| 1899 | KESSLER | Insel Verlag founded by Harry Kessler |
| 1856 | KESSLER, GEORG | First general treatise on the various applications of photography to the printing press published by Georg Kessler in Berlin. |
| 1874 | KIPPENBERG | Kippenberg, Anton, d.1950. From 1905 director of Insel-Verlag |
| 1919 | KLEUKENS | Kleukens Presse founded by Friedrich Kleukens. |
| 1878 | KLEUKENS | Kleukens, Friedrich Wilhelm, d.1956. German graphic arts teacher, director of Ernst Ludwig Press from 1907-1914. Founded the Kleukens Presse in 1919 and the Mainzer Presse in 1929. |
| 1929 | KLEUKENS | Mainzer Presse founded by Friedrich Kleukens |
| 1869 | KLINGSPOR | Klingspor, Karl, d.1950. Typefounder of Offenbach am Main, Germany |
| 1838 | KNIGHT | Knight, Charles, patented a method of color printing in which four relief blocks of wood or metal rotated and impressed in turn on to a sheet of paper |
| 1483 | KOBERGER | Cologne Bible by Anton Koberger of Nuremberg |
| 1440 | KOBERGER | Koberger, Anton, d.1513. Printer in Neuremberg since 1470. First dated book Disciplinarum Platonis Epitome, 1472 |
| 1774 | KÖNIG, FRIEDRICH | König, Friedrich, d.1833. Inventor of the cylinder press |
| 1531 | KRAUSE | Krause, Jakob, d.1586. German bookbinder, active in Paris , Augsburg and Dresden |
| 1892 | KRIMPEN | Krimpen, Jan van, d.1958. Dutch type designer, artistic adviser of Enschede printing company. Types: Lutetia, Romulus, Antigone, Romanee, Spectrum and Canceleresca |
| 1923 | KUNERA | Kunera Press, Zilverdistel Press, founded 1910, was renamed Kunera Press in 1923 |
| 1799 | LAMBINET | Lambinet, Pierre, published his Recherches Historiques sur l'Origine de l'Imprimerie at Brussels |
| -500 | LAO TZE | Lao-Tze's lifetime, was said to have been archivist of the imperial archives |
| 1906 | LAROUSSE | Larousse. Publication of 'Le Petit Larousse Illustre' |
| 1817 | LAROUSSE | Larousse, Pierre, d.1875, founder in 1856 of Parisian publishing house |
| 1808 | LAURENZIANA | Laurenziana. The Laurenziana and Marciana libraries of the Medici's combined in Flrence now forming the Biblioteca Mediceco-Laurenziana |
| 1525 | LAURENZIANA | Laurenziana. Michelangelo erects building for the Bibliotheca Laurenziana (De Medici collection) |
| -950 | LEATHER USED FOR SCROLLS | Leather is made and used for scrolls and writing. |
| 1493 | LEEU | Leeu, Gerard, d.1493, printer at Gouda, Holland |
| 1889 | LEGRAIN | Legrain, Pierre, d.1929, French bookbinder |
| 1594 | LEIPZIG | Leipzig bookfair |
| 1800 | LENOX | Lenox, James, d.1880, American bookcollector, first to import 42-lines Gutenberg into the USA |
| -39 | LIBERTAS TEMPLE | Libertas. Asinius Pollio establishes first public library in Rome at the Libertas Temple |
| 1891 | LIBRARY OF CONGRESS | Lessing J. Rosenwald, d. 1979. Former chairman of Sears, Roebuck Co. gave to the nation 2,600 exquisite volumes, the greates benefaction in the Library of Congress' history, including an enormous two volume illuminated manuscript known as the Great Bible of Mainz. produced in 1452, this book is thought to have influenced motifs and ornamentation used in the design of Gutenbergs 42 line bible, which was printed in the same year. Other treasures included Prolemy's COSMOGRAPHIA; William Blake's SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE; the only known copy of the first edition of the English version of the Lohengrin legend, THE KNIGHT OF THE SWAN and the only ilustrated book published by Manutius, Colonna's HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI. |
| 1800 | LIBRARY OF CONGRESS | Congress. Library of Congress Washington founded |
| 1929 | LIMITED EDITIONS | Limited Editions Club founded |
| 700 | LINDISFARNE | Lindisfarne Gospels written on 258 leaves (link to on-line reproductions: http://www.xs4all.nl/~knops/manuscri.html ) |
| 1854 | LINOTYPE | Mergenthaler, Ottmar, d.1899 from Hachtel, Germany, invented linotype in 1884 |
| 1886 | LINOTYPE | Linotype invented by Otto Mergenthaler |
| 1953 | LION AND UNICORN | Lion and Unicorn Press by students of the Royal College of Art, London |
| 1796 | LITHOGRAPHY | Lithography experiments by Senefelder |
| 1798 | LITHOGRAPHY | The best kind of limestone is Bavarian. Light coloured and perfectly smooth, it is porous and absorbs both water and greasy substances equally well. The stone used is about six inches thick and is fairly big, up to 90x65 cm (35x25 inches), and can weigh up to 150 or 175 pounds. The stone is ground smooth. The drawing is made on it with a greasy lithographic pencil or crayon, and then fixed by rinsing the stone with a very weak solution of nitric acid and gum arabic. The stone is wiped with water before each impression is taken and, for each print, it is inked by means of a leather-covered roller. During this operation, the porous limestone retains the grease of the crayon where the drawing has been made, and the parts which are not drawn upon become impregnated with water. The ink, which is greasy, is repelled by the water-wet areas and adheres only to the areas marked by the crayon. See also: Senefelder. |
| 1832 | LITHOGRAPHY, RAUCOURT | Raucourt's 'A Manual of Lithography' published |
| 1798 | LITOGRAPHY | Lithography invented by Senefelder |
| 1522 | LOTTER | Luther, Melchior Lotter printed the first edition of Luthers' translation of the New Testament |
| 1536 | LOTTER | Lotter, Melchior, d.1536, printer of Leipzig, friend of Luther |
| 1912 | LOVAT FRASER | Flying Fame Press founded by Claude Lovat Fraser, Holbrook Jackson and Ralph Hodgson, active until firts WW |
| 1874 | LOWELL, AMY | Amy Lowell (1874-1925). The greatest of all American women collectors. Today her collection is housed in its own room on the second floor of the Houghton Library at Harvard University. |
| 1695 | LUCE | Luce, Louis-Rene, d.1774, punchcutter working for the Imprimerie Royal |
| 1495 | LUFFT | Lufft, Hans, d.1584, printer-publisher of Wittenberg |
| 1953 | LURS | Lurs. Ecole de lure, annual international graphic arts retreat initiated by Maximilien Vox at Lurs-en-Provence |
| 1522 | LUTHER | Luther, Melchior Lotter printed the first edition of Luthers' translation of the New Testament |
| 1517 | LUTHER | Luthers fight against the Roman Catholic church starts. This is considered to be the first revolution of ideas supported by the fast and wide spread of written information thanks to the invention of printing |
| 1534 | LUTHER | Luther. First complete Luther bible translation, illustrated, was printed by Hans Lufft at Wittenberg |
| 590 | LUXEUIL | Luxeuil. Monastery founded by Columban, first monastery in Gaul. Irish Monks brought along numerous manuscripts |
| 1969 | MAGNASCAN | Colour scanner Crosfield Electronics 'Magnascan' |
| 1686 | MAGNUS | Magnus, Albertus (d.) important 17th century Amsterdam bookbinder, amongst others Elzevier Bibles |
| 1937 | MAILLOL | Maillol. Les Pastorales ou Daphnis et Chloe with woodcuts by Aristide Maillol |
| 1457 | MAINZ PSALTER | Mainz Psalter by Fust and Schoffer |
| 1929 | MAINZER PRESSE | Mainzer Presse founded by Friedrich Kleukens |
| 1471 | MALERMI | Malermi Bible (Italian translation of the Vulgate) first printed in Venice by Wendelin da Spira |
| 1883 | MALIN | Malin, Charles, d.1955, Parisain punchcutter who in 1926 cut the punches for Eric Gill's Perpetua type |
| 1916 | MALL PRESS | Mall Press founded in London by Emery Walker and Bruce Rogers |
| 1425 | MANSION | Mansion, Colard, d.1484, one of the leading calligraphers in Bruges, Belgium |
| 1475 | MANSION, COLARD | Belgium, First books printed by Colard Mansion of Bruges |
| 1810 | MANUEL DU LIBRAIRE | Brunet's Manuel du Libraire et de l'amateur de livres published. |
| 1495 | MANUTIUS | Manutius, Greek Grammar, first book published by Manutius |
| 1450 | MANUTIUS | Manutius. year of birth Aldus Manutius (Teobaldo Manucci), d.1515 |
| 1499 | MANUTIUS | Hypnerotomachia Poliphili printed by Manutius |
| 1501 | MANUTIUS | Manutius. Virgil edition; first book by Aldus Manutius in octavo format |
| 1515 | MANUTIUS | Manutius, year inwhich Manutius died |
| 1495 | MANUTIUS | Griffo, Francesco, cut 'old face' roman type for Aldus Manutius |
| 1501 | MANUTIUS | Manutius. First time use of Francescop Griffo's *Italic* type by Manutius |
| 1495 | MANUTIUS | Manutius, Edition of Aristotle in five volumes, first complete edition in Greek, printed/published between 1495-1498 |
| 800 | MARBLING | Marbling in Japan, first Turkish marbled paper 1586, first Dutch 1598 |
| 1441 | MARCIANA | Marciana. Bibliotheca Marciana founded by Cosimo de Medici |
| 1892 | MARDERSTEIG | Mardersteig, Giovanni, d.1977. founder of Officina Bodoni |
| 1553 | MARGUERITE DE FRANCE | Marguerite de France, d.1615. Wife of Henry IV of France, important bookcollector amongst others items from library of Duke de Berry |
| 1809 | MARMIER | Xavier Marmier (1809-1892), a member of the Académie Française, bequeathed his books to the public library in Pontarlier. In memory of the happy moments passed among the book stall keepers on the quays of the Left Bank he left the, the sum of 1,000 francs.. |
| 1425 | MARMION | Marmion, Simon, d.1489. Flemish miniature painter, amongst others Grandes Chroniques de France for Philip the Good |
| 1848 | MARX | Marx, Karl: 'Das Kapital' published |
| 1643 | MAZARIN | Mazarin, First Mazarin bibliotheque opened for scientists and literary scholars |
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