Comments on: So Long, Butler & Tanner https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/14/so-long-butler-tanner/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 14 Nov 2023 19:22:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Lyna Sandau https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/14/so-long-butler-tanner/#comment-1527962 Tue, 14 Nov 2023 19:22:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=113243#comment-1527962 I found a book that was printed in 1902: The Shaving of Shagpat by George Meredith. The first page has Charles Scribner’s Sons, but on the last page it shows Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London. Do you know anything about this book?

]]> By: Cathy Ritchie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/14/so-long-butler-tanner/#comment-1444997 Wed, 29 Dec 2021 11:37:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=113243#comment-1444997 I have a Blackie’s Compact English Dictionary by Richard Cunliffe, M.A., LL.D and Geoffrey Payton, B.A in hardback c1969.

I purchased it myself when I left school roughly around 1973. Just enquiring whether it is valuable, is it collectable, would a museum be interested in it? It doesn’t have the outer cover but the book itself is in good condition having been kept in a cupboard away from sunlight.

]]> By: gail foster https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/14/so-long-butler-tanner/#comment-1352213 Thu, 10 Sep 2020 20:09:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=113243#comment-1352213 I have found a book that I want info on. Printed by ward lock and company and printed by Butler and tanner ,frome and London…in great britain…no date..written by Mrs Henry Wood called East lynne…no date…very early edition.
Can you help?
Gail Foster

]]> By: Charles Crawford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/14/so-long-butler-tanner/#comment-1214202 Wed, 27 Jun 2018 13:25:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=113243#comment-1214202 Dear Sirs, I have just finished reading a very interesting and moving book, by Agnes Stewart, about 1874, with the title, MARGARET ROPER; OR, THE CHANCELLOR AND HIS DAUGHTER. This book has been published by Amazon, but inside Butler & Tanner are named as the printers, at The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London. I do hope that while others may legally, I suppose, provide the public with old-fashioned works, such as the above, your firm’s reputation will spread with the production of similar projects.

]]> By: Derek Miles https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/14/so-long-butler-tanner/#comment-1161130 Wed, 02 Aug 2017 07:59:51 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=113243#comment-1161130 I came across a small book of some 500 pages in my family archives printed many years ago and in rather discoloured condition. It is titled
“The Works of Aristotle” and states
THE MIDWIFE’S VADE-MECUM. This book does not have a date of printing but its condition may suggest something around the later part of 1800.
I would welcome any comment and especially some advice on what to do with it, since I’m nearer to 90 than 85. The youngsters don’t appear to be too interested !

]]> By: Mick Kunzi https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/14/so-long-butler-tanner/#comment-1150008 Wed, 17 May 2017 12:35:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=113243#comment-1150008 Oh so sad . . one reflects on such skills, characters and dedication to our industry . . as a Monotype Caster Attendant and Monotype Keyboard Operator having to change over the years through to Litho and Digital, I take my hat off to Butler & Tanner for the many fine books produced . . to the men and women employed – it was an institution . . This is a Printing Office . . Friend, you stand on sacred ground . . Mick Kunzi (last of the letterpress boys !) 1963 (typesetter) apprentice and still doing a bit today.

]]> By: Heather Fenton https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/14/so-long-butler-tanner/#comment-351388 Mon, 26 May 2014 20:49:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=113243#comment-351388 Yes, indeed a very sad day and so many skills unused and which will probably not be used in the same way again. I worked with B&T for many years in the 1960 and 70s when I was employed by various publishers, and they were always good to work with. I visited the works several times too. I also have another conection with Frome as well. A number of my paternal ancestors, the Belstens, were from there and I think were undertakers and cabinet makers. Sadly cabinet makers are also out of fashion too. So greeings to all unemployed printers, and any cabinet makers, in Frome!

]]> By: Jan Marsh https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/14/so-long-butler-tanner/#comment-346738 Thu, 22 May 2014 18:53:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=113243#comment-346738 you know a printers’ annual outing is/was not a beano but a wayzgoose – but where does that term originate?

]]> By: Ian Perry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/14/so-long-butler-tanner/#comment-341293 Sat, 17 May 2014 17:31:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=113243#comment-341293 How inestimably sad, and especially so, of course, for all the people who are so dreadfully affected by this potential closure. It does seem that very little of quality can thrive in modern society. Everything is governed by the lowest common denominator, to all our loss. We must hope that a sensitive administrator can help a phoenix to rise and re-employ all these talented people. Best wishes to you all, Ian

]]> By: Phil Maxwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/05/14/so-long-butler-tanner/#comment-339995 Fri, 16 May 2014 15:37:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=113243#comment-339995 Thanks to B&T for printing my book Brick Lane brilliantly. So sad they are now closing.

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