Slight imperfections in compositional alignment…detail of a specimen page from the 1887 _Palmer & Rey’s third revised specimen book and price list of printing material_ showing Wm H Page Wood Type Co border No 193 (and two line and two-and-one-half line samples of Antique Tuscan Extended.

The 1887 Palmer & Rey catalog is held in a number collections around the US including Columbia University, Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, the Hunting Library, University of California at Berkley, University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Deleware, and in the Kemble Collection now at Stanford University.
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What role did colour play in the long nineteenth century?

'Colour Matters: Exploring Chromatic Materialities in the Long Nineteenth Century (1798-1914)' ed. by Stefano Evangelista, Charlotte Ribeyrol & Matthew Winterbottom provides a fresh investigation of the materiality, politics & sensory experience of colour during this period.

Read freely online or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0501

#OpenAccess #OAbooks #NineteenthCentury

"This past week, I was fortunate to acquire a particularly handsome example of a work that, while not always widely appreciated outside #bibliophilic circles, deserves to be counted among the most ambitious productions of #nineteenthcentury #Hebrew #printing – the #Trieste #Haggadah of 1863.

Students of #Jewish #art will recognize immediately the significance of this edition. Indeed, the noted art #historian #BezalelRoth went so far as to assert that only one nineteenth-century Haggadah could truly be called groundbreaking in both conception and execution: the #TriesteHaggadah.

Issued under the title #LHaggadaillustrata, the volume presents the Hebrew text alongside a refined #Italian #translation by #Rabbi #AvrahamChaiMorpurgo. The translation is not merely serviceable; it reflects a careful engagement with earlier #machzorim and #Haggadot across several #European traditions, resulting in a text that is both accurate and stylistically polished."

https://jewishpress.com/the-trieste-haggadah-of-1863/

Morgan Silver Dollars: Texture, Time, and Monochromatic Study

https://gregurbano.com/2026/01/18/morgan-silver-dollars-texture-time-and-monochromatic-study/