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This specialist library off Fleet Street houses 50,000 books and 3,500 periodicals, catalogues and directories on printing. From techniques to type faces, graphic design to typography, if it can be printed you'll find it here. If you're not sure what you're looking for, staff are happy to help. When it first opened in 1895, the library also house a printing school; the school eventually moved out and is now the London College of Communication. Not just a depository for academic research on medieval printing, the collection is kept up to date with the latest on digital typography and web design. Type is one of the highlights, with punches, matrices and founders' type from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Early forms of printing including wood blocks, copper plate and lithographic stones show the various techniques used to reproduce images over the years. The library also runs an active events programme for and by people who are passionate about typography, graphic design and print.
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Little New Street, City, London EC4A | 3 minutes from St Bride Library
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25 Old Castle Street, Spitalfields, London E1 | 26 minutes from St Bride Library
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5 Pancras Square, Bloomsbury, London N1C | 37 minutes from St Bride Library
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St Bride Library, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, EC4Y | 1 minute from St Bride Library
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St Bride Library, St Paul's Churchyard, EC4M | 6 minutes from St Bride Library
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St Bride Library, St Paul's Churchyard, EC4M | 6 minutes from St Bride Library
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Kings Reach, Victoria Embankment, Holborn, London EC4Y | 5 minutes from St Bride Library
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213 Strand, Holborn, London WC2R | 7 minutes from St Bride Library
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20 Upper Ground, South Bank, London SE1 | 7 minutes from St Bride Library
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New Street Square, City, London EC4A | 4 minutes from St Bride Library
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Fleet Street, Temple, Holborn, London EC4Y | 5 minutes from St Bride Library
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Middle Temple Lane, Holborn, London EC4Y | 5 minutes from St Bride Library
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15-17 New Street Square, Fetter Lane, City, London EC4A | 4 minutes from St Bride Library
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23-23a Bride Lane, EC4Y | 1 minute from St Bride Library
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85 Fleet Street, Bloomsbury, London EC4Y | 1 minute from St Bride Library
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109 Fleet Street, City, London EC4A | 1 minute from St Bride Library
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4-6 Staple Inn, Holborn, London WC1V | 7 minutes from St Bride Library
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1 Sheffield Street, Holborn, London WC2A | 10 minutes from St Bride Library
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Somerset House, Covent Garden, London WC2R | 11 minutes from St Bride Library
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Topnotch Health Club, 3 Tudor Street, City, London EC4Y | 2 minutes from St Bride Library
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1 St Brides Passage, Fleet Street, EC4Y | 1 minute from St Bride Library
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The Mermaid, Puddledock, City, London EC4V | 4 minutes from St Bride Library
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