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Lyon and Blair, Engravers, Steam b&w photographic printers, Lithographers and Stationery Supplies. Lambton Quay, 1895

Letter from Lyon and Blair regarding application for water service to premises, Lambton Quay, 1878

Typo : a monthly newspaper and literary review devoted to the advancement of the typographic art and the interests of the printing, publishing, bookselling, stationery, and kindred trades

Printed Examples

Wellington Harbour improvements, General plan; Drawing No.1

Materialism : a lecture delivered before the Union Debating Society

The monthly review

Sketch of the work of the Catholic Church for the last half-century in the Archdiocese of Wellington, New Zealand

New and complete manual of Maori conversation : containing phrases and dialogues on a variety of useful and interesting topics : together with a few general rules of grammar : and a comprehensive vocabulary

Fairy tales and folk-lore of New Zealand and the South

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C.W. Richmond, Materialism (pamphlet) (1881)(title-page image)

Pamphlets were a common form of jobbing printing amongst colonial printers. They were never long-winded (16 or 32 pages maximum), they required no finicky typesetting, editions were small, and frequently they were commissioned and completely paid for as specimens of vanity publishing by authors who then distributed them to their family and friends. As a no-risk proposition which could be slipped in between larger printing projects, pamphlets were ideal revenue generators. Many of Lyon & Blair's output include works which argue the hot topics of the day: social reform, politics, spiritualism, rational philosophy, etc. This example is characteristic of a simply classical yet elegant cover with few typefaces and a clean border.

 
    
     

 

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