History of Printing Timeline: 1500 -1750
April 23, 2024 | Posted in: PGSF Blogs | Student Resources
Source – printinghistory.org/timeline/
1501
Italic type and small format books introduced by Aldus Manutius in Venice.
1514
Book of Hours printed in Arabic types in Fano (Italy).
1520–23
Babylonian Talmud printed by Daniel Bomberg in Venice.
1529
Champfleury published by Geoffroy Tory in Paris. It promoted grammar, punctuation and letterform proportion.
1530
Claude Garamond designs a Roman typeface in Paris.
1537–38
Paganino and Alessandro Paganini produced the first printed edition of the Qur’an in Arabic (Venice).
1539
Juan Pablos (Giovanni Paoli) became the first printer in North America (Mexico City).
1545
Claude Garamond designs his typeface; forms first independent foundry.
1563
Printing in France forbidden without royal permission under penalty of death.
1568–1573
Biblia Polyglotta printed in five languages by Christopher Plantin in Antwerp.
1569
Mercator’s world map, his projection was a boon to navigation.
1584
The University Press at Cambridge begins operation, and has done so continuously since. It lays claim to being both the world’s oldest university press in and the oldest printing & publishing house.
circa 1600
Spain outlaws papermaking in its New World colonies.
1605
German language newspaper Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien (Strasbourg).
1611
Publication of the first edition of the King James Bible
1623
Shakespeare’s First Folio published.
1639
The Bay Psalm Book, the first book printed in the American colonies (Cambridge).
1642
Mezzotint, the first tonal method to produce half-tones without using line- or dot-based techniques such as cross-hatching or stippleling. It is achieved by roughening the plate with thousands of little dots made by a metal tool with small teeth called a “rocker.”
1665
The Oxford Gazette, first regularly published English newspaper. Charles II moved his family (and the newspaper) back to London in 1666.
1683
Mechanick Exercises on The Whole Art of Printing by Joseph Moxon, the first manual on printing.
1690
Papermaking in America (Philadelphia).
Newspaper published in America, Publick Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestick (Boston).
1692
Romain du Roi, the first produced type based rational design. Influenced the later transitional typefaces of Pierre Simon Fournier and John Baskerville.
1698
Public library opens in Charleston, South Carolina.
1702
Daily newspaper in England, the Daily Courant.
1710
Statute of Anne regulates copyright in Great Britain.
1725
Coloritto by Jacob Christoph Le Blon. Described a RYB three-color printing process.
1728
Stereotype printing plates developed. It was means of reproducing composed type forms to prevent wear of original types and free them for other use.
1731
Library Company of Philadelphia, first American subscription library, founded by Benjamin Franklin and fellow members of the Junto, a club for mutual improvement.
1733
Poor Richard’s Almanack, published by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1735
Publisher John Peter Zenger acquitted of libel in colonial New York City, setting the legal standard.
1743
Joh. Enschedé began manufacturing type in Haarlem (The Netherlands).
1750
John Baskerville designs a typeface in Cambridge, England.
Contributors
Substantive comments and suggestions provided by Abby Bainbridge, George Barnum, Barbara Beeton, Terry Belanger, Charles A. Bigelow, Frank Caserta, Douglas Charles, Sarah Chute, Walter Delaney, Erik Desmyter, Sue Durrell, Paul F. Gehl, Jeffrey D. Groves, John G. Henry, Howard Iron Works Museum, Amelia Hugill-Fontanel, Fritz Klinke, Joel Larson, Keelan Lightfoot, Mathieu Lommen, Se Eum Park, Stan Nelson, Xavier Querol, John Risseeuw, Helen Robinson, Paul Romaine, Frank J. Romano, Walker Rumble, Richard Saunders, Stephen O. Saxe, Ad Stijnman, Katherine Victoria Taylor, Philip Weimerskirch, Eric M. White, Colyn Wohlmut, Woo Sik Yoo, and Corinna Zeltsman.
Sources
Berry, W. Turner and H. Edmund Poole. Annuals of Printing, Blandford 1966
Chappell Warren. A Short History of the Printing Word, Hartley & Marks, 1999
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing, Praeger, 1969
The GATF Encyclopedia of Graphic Communications. Graphic Arts Technical Foundation GATF Press, 1998
Moran, James. Printing Presses, University of California Press, 1973 | ebook
[Republic of Korea] Cultural Heritage Administration
Steinberg, S. H. Five Hundred Years of Printing, Oak Knoll & The British Library, 1996
Stijnman, Ad. Engraving and Etching 1400–2000. A History of the Development of Manual Intaglio Printmaking Processes. ‘t Goy-Houten-London, 2012
Wallis, Lawerence W. A Concise Chronology of Typesetting Developments 1886–1986 , Wynkyn de Worde Society/Lund Humpheries, 1992
