Welcome to Reading

 

On my first research day, I was welcomed by the assistant curator, Dr Emma Minns, who shared the library's cataloguing files with me and explained the scanning and copying system. After activating my institutional email, I returned to the library and began mapping the books of particular interest to my research.

 

I started my readings with Tempting the Palette: A Survey of Colour Printing Processes by David Pankow. Of course, Twyman's A History of Chromolithography is here to be my guide and my bible. The most fantastic news was that the last issue of the Journal of the Printing Historical Society, published in 2024, was entirely dedicated to Twyman. It celebrated his 90th anniversary with seven unpublished recent papers, two on chromolithography.