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This kit provides a step-by-step look at how R. Stanley Nelson created a lowercase letter e for a typeface he designed called Robin. He began by creating a punch to form a matrix into which type metal was poured. Using a soft steel rod (1) that he…

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A burlesque of Napoleon's grievances against England. The print is making fun of the famous scene made by the First Consul at a levée on 13 March 1803, when he reproached John Whitworth, then British Ambassador to Paris, with the conduct of the…

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The windy corner outside Charles Tilt’s print shop on Fleet Street with the proprietor in the doorway.

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These two cuneiform tablets are by far the oldest objects in the Grolier Club Library. Cuneiform is one of the earliest systems of writing, invented by the Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia in the late fourth millennium BCE. It was largely replaced by…

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Cruikshank was famous for singing the Ballard, about a dandy lord’s romantic adventure in Turkey recited by a cockney dustman, at many an evening with friends. In 1839, he decided to write it up and illustrate it for publication. By that time,…

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First issued in nine monthly parts from May 1841 through January 1842, Omnibus lasted less than a year despite its many amusing drawings.

Having refused the entreaties of Punch’s editor, Mark Lemon, to join the new magazine, Cruikshank started his…

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Talleyrand kicking Boney towards Elba with his heavy surgical shoe, raising his crutch to smite the fugitive.
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