Cadbury Research Library at the University of Birmingham (CLR)

Information

The CLR has substantial holdings of rare books and rich archival material available for research into a wide range of subjects within the sphere of printing history and culture, for example:

John Baskerville
James Belcher [18c Bham printer & bookseller], eg his diary
Giambattista Bodoni (170 books including splendid editions of the classics)
Foulis Press (200 imprints in a single collection, together with a 1783 type specimen by Alexander Wilson who designed the Foulis typefaces).
William Hodgetts [19c Bham printer and publisher], eg correspondence with Joshua Toulmin Smith
Leonard Jay of the Birmingham School of Printing – papers and correspondence
Kelmscott Press
The (F. E. “Bill”) Pardoe Collection
Sceptre Press Archive and the Martin Booth (poet) Collection
Shakespeare Folios
The Beatrice Ward Collection
Resources related to 18th and 19th century book production
Book Trade Index

In addition there is material related more particularly to calligraphers and designers:

Margaret Adams [20c calligrapher, Stanbrook Abbey Press]
Alfred Fairbank [19/20c calligrapher, + archives of medieval m/s Fairbank used as inspiration in his work]
Joseph Gillott [pen nib maker]
Edward Johnston [19/20c calligrapher and typeface designer for London Transport]
William Parry [18c calligrapher and numismatist]
Edward D Riches [19c calligrapher]
John Rutlish [17c calligrapher]