# heritagetreasures libraries archives typography watermarks paper print

Happy day!

We are all about preserving the heritage of print and typography in Fleet Street and beyond! Here are some highlights of our collections.

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2023-01-11

Watermarks: the invisible ink of book history.

[Watermarked leaf included in Codicum manuscriptorum diversii argumenti. VAULT folio Case MS 1.5]

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2019-12-20

Here is the first commercial Christmas card - sent by Sir Henry Cole in the UK in 1843. He created this first card with his friend and artist John Horsley, and they printed about 1000 copies, which were sold at a shilling a piece

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2018-12-20