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Typically found on large dictionaries, thumb indexes help readers quickly find the section of the book they need. In the case of this Linotype manual, readers can thumb to a specific typeface.

Each of the Cary Collection's three volumes of George Ellis' Specimens of the Early English Poets has a fore-edge painting showing a foxhunting scene with some sort of comic mishap. Here a rider has flipped over this horse. Let's hope he wasn't…

The spindle, commonly referred to as the 'heart of the press' was the most difficult part to machine within the capabilities of the RIT shop. The 3 start, 2 inch pitch threat at the top of the spindle challenged the specialist at the shop. In order…

An image of a Stansbury style Acorn press, manufactured by R. Hoe & Co.

Jenna Doran, a fourth-year microelectric engineering student from Olympia, WA., holds a print of the First Amendment, made on an 18th-century-style wooden printing press created by an interdisciplinary group of students in 2016.

A science fiction anthology comic, Strange Adventures features a cover penciled and inked by renowned artists Gil Kane and Joe Giella. The cover telegraphs the issue's opening story, written by John Broome and drawn by the same artistic team, in…

This long-running series blends humor and adventure, as the well-meaning but somewhat inept reporter Jimmy Olsen stumbles into situations, many involving the help of Superman, that lead to stories in Metropolis’ Daily Planet newspaper. As Jonathan…

The Uncommon Press team worked in the engineering machine shop to fit, assemble, and oil components of the press, before the final assembly in the Wallace Library. Here the tympan is being attached to the coffin.

The mahogany platen has hung from the hose with a series of 4 knots, tied with string.

Team member Ferris Nicolais, with the finished mahogany platen.