Thackeray & Sons
Established in the year 1847
The House of

LETTERPRESS

Printed on Iron, Not on Screens

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.

Proofs pulled within five working days · carriage paid within the City
The Works & Sundry Commissions
I.

Wedding Suites

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 hundred
II.

Trade Cards

Bill heads, compliment slips and calling cards, composed in Caslon and Clarendon, two workings, hand-fed on the Wharfedale.

From £2 · 8s the ream
III.

Broadsides

Wood 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