Every card, book and bill that leaves Whitcomb Row is set by hand in metal type and
pulled damp on a Columbian press of 1866 — one sheet, one impression, one at a time.
Come and hear the platen come down before you commit a word of it to paper.
Invitations, orders of service and menu cards, deep-struck into Somerset mould-made and edge-painted by hand at the bench.
From £4 · 12s the hundredBill heads, compliment slips and calling cards, composed in Caslon and Clarendon, two workings, hand-fed on the Wharfedale.
From £2 · 8s the reamWood letter to double crown for theatres, fairs and public notices — the loud work this house has printed since the railways came.
By estimate at the counter