Michael Twyman

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Michael Twyman is affiliated with the following schools: University of Oxford, University of Reading

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PhD History University of Oxford
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According to Wikipedia, Michael Twyman is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. He joined the university staff in 1959. He established a BA course in Typography & Graphic Communication which eventually grew into its own department in 1974. Both the programme and the department are widely acknowledged to be the first of their kind in the world. He retired from full-time teaching in 1998 but still teaches postgraduate students and is also the Director of the Centre for Ephemera Studies.

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Michael Twyman's Published Works

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Printing 1770-1970: An Illustrated History of Its Development and Uses in England (1970) (128)
A Schema for the Study of Graphic Language (Tutorial Paper) (1979) (91)
Using Pictorial Language: A Discussion of the Dimensions of the Problem (1985) (78)
Lithography, 1800-1850 : the techniques of drawing on stone in England and France and their application in works of topography (1970) (71)
The British Library guide to printing : history and techniques (1998) (71)
The graphic presentation of language (1982) (67)
Breaking the mould : the first hundred years of lithography (2001) (49)
Early lithographed music: A study based on the H. Baron Collection (1996) (48)
Early lithographed books: A study of the design and production of improper books in the age of the hand press, with a catalogue (1990) (48)
The long-term significance of printed ephemera (2008) (30)
A history of chromolithography: printed colour for all (2013) (14)
Further thoughts on a schema for describing graphic language (2004) (14)
Review of J. Last, the color explosion: nineteenth-century American lithography (2006) (8)
The illustration revolution (2009) (8)
Preliminary Thoughts on Nomenclature for Teachers of Handwriting. (1990) (2)
Reconstructing a Senefelder pole press (2004) (1)
Hand-colouring or chromolithography: the pros and cons (2018) (1)
A half blooded knot for wound closure (2012) (0)
Lithographed music in Italy during the first half of the XIX century: an artefactual study (2017) (0)
John Philips's lithographic notebook (2016) (0)
The Maurice Rickards Collection of Ephemera (2020) (0)
The plates of the Herefordshire Pomona (2014) (0)
The Lived Experiences of African American Grandfathers Raising Their Grandchildren (2010) (0)
Asymmetric Page Design in Lithographed Books of the Nineteenth Century: The Convergence of Manuscript and Printing (1992) (0)
Charles Hullmandel’s stones at Kingston Lacy (2018) (0)
Giovanni Battista Belzoni’s portrait frontispiece in the various editions of his 'narrative of the operations and recent discoveries… in Egypt and Nubia’ (2018) (0)
The landscape alphabet (1987) (0)
Production: from chromolithography to photolithography (2010) (0)
Barnett Freedman: master lithographer (2006) (0)
Lear and lithography (2009) (0)
Typography and electronic publishing (1986) (0)
Lectures manuscrites: School books designed to give children experience in reading handwriting (1995) (0)
The design of bibliographies: observations, references and examples (1993) (0)
Breaking the Mould (2001) (0)
Chromolithography: the European legacy (2003) (0)
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (NSTC)@@@Biography Database 1680-1830 (1999) (0)
Prize labels and the 'Distribution solennelle des Prix' (2004) (0)

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