Publications

The Society of Printers has issued numerous publications for members, and for the public.
An abbreviated, illustrated list is available HERE.  
In-Print titles for sale can be ordered HERE.
A list of Pamplets and Keepsakes can be seen HERE.

Books

Titles in red link to a PDF version of the publication or, in the case of in-print books, to the order page.

  • The Development of Printing as an Art - 1906

  • Giambattista Bodoni of Parma, by T. M. Cleland - 1916

  • Address of William Dana Orcutt, Esqr - 1940

  • A Testimonial Dinner to William Dana Orcutt - 1942

  • Miscellany: A Co-operative Venture in Wartime Printing Produced by Members for Private Distribution to the Society - 1945

  • Printing as an Art: A History of the Society of Printers, Boston, 1905–1955, by Ray Nash. Published for the Society of Printers by Harvard University Press - 1955

  • D. B. Updike and John Bianchi: A Note on Their Association, by Daniel B. Bianchi - 1966

  • Aesopic | 24 Bewick wood engravings with couplets by Anthony Hecht. Designed by Leonard Baskin and printed at the Gehenna Press- 1968

  • Benjamin Franklin, Printer edited by James Mooney - 1970

  • The Trajan Inscription, with an Essay by Father Edward Catich - 1974

  • A Biographical Directory of the Society of Printers - 1974

  • The Suffolk Resolves, 1774, edited and with an introduction by James E. Mooney - 1976

  • The Riverside Press in Retrospect: 1852–1971, by Charles A. Rheault, Jr. - 1979

  • SP at Seventy-five: The Society of Printers, 1955–1980, by Charles A. Rheault, Jr. - 1981

  • Type Pi: Recipes from Members of the Society of Printers - 1983.

  • T. J. Lyons: A Biography and Critical Essay, by Al Gowan - 1987

  • Society of Printers Yearbook, 1993–1994 - 1994

  • A Biographical Directory of the Society of Printers - 1999

  • Strings Attached: Dorothy Abbe, Her Work and WAD, by Anne C. Bromer.
    Co-published by the Boston Public Library - 2001

  • SP at Seventy-five: The Society of Printers, 1955–1980, by Charles A. Rheault, Jr.
    Reprinted 2005

  • The SP Century, edited by Scott-Martin Kosofsky
    Co-published by the Boston Public Library, in association with Oak Knoll Press - 2006

  • In the School of Baskin, Three Essays by Bruce Chandler, Lance Hidy, and Barry Moser - 2008

  • Printing Office Collection, Books in the printing library of Roderick Stinehour - 2010

  • The Book Cover Art of Sarah Wyman Whitman. The transcript of a talk given by the late Sue Allen at the 2002 Society of Printers Annual Meeting - 2012

  • Percy Grassby 1882–1972 An Outsider Boston‘s World of Print. The only scholarship to date on wood engraver Percy Grassby - 2012