| YEAR | KEYWORD | EVENT |
|---|---|---|
| -1500 | PHAISTOS DISC | The 'Phaistos disc', found on the island of Crete in 1908, was produced by pressing relief-carved symbols into the soft clay, then baking it. Although it contains the germ of the idea of printing, it appears to be unique. |
| 1593 | PHILIPPINES | Philippines, The first book printed in Manilla: Doctrina Christiana (Unique copy in Lessing J.Rosenwald collection) |
| 1473 | PHILOBIBLON | Philobiblon. Richard de Bury's treatise written in praise of books |
| -800 | PHOENECIAN WRITING | Moabite stone is created with one of the finest specimens of Phoenician writing. The letters resemble Greek. |
| 1856 | PHOTOGRAPHY | First general treatise on the various applications of photography to the printing press published by Georg Kessler in Berlin. |
| 1839 | PHOTOGRAPHY | Head of the Charité Clinic in Paris, Dr. Alfred Donné, was the first to announce success with etching daguerreotype plates. |
| 1857 | PHOTOGRAPHY | John Pouncy's DORSETSHIRE PHOTOGRAPHICALLY ILLUSTRATED was the first book illustrated by photolithography, two volumes containing 79 plates in total. |
| 1787 | PHOTOGRAPHY | Daguerre, Louis Jacq. Mande, d.1851, worked together with the inventor of photography, Niepce (d.1833) and developed daguerreotype process |
| 1840 | PHOTOGRAPHY | 18 April 1840 Dr. Joseph Berres, professorof anatomy in Vienna, stated in the Wiener Zeitung that he had succeede in converting daguerreotypes in to printing plates. |
| 1765 | PHOTOGRAPHY | Niepce, Joseph Nicephore, d. 1833, inventor of photography (1822) |
| 1841 | PHOTOGRAPHY | First achromatic portrait lens specially designed for photography by Joseph Petzval, Vienna, introduced by Friedrich Voigtlaender. |
| 1853 | PHOTOGRAPHY | Photographic Society of London founded by Sir Charles Eastlake. |
| 1854 | PHOTOGRAPHY | Société Française de Photographie founded by Eugène Durieu. |
| 1822 | PHOTOGRAPHY | Heliography invented by Niépce in 1822. He made his first photograph in 1826. |
| 1860 | PHOTOGRAPHY, COLOR | Colour photography by J.C.Maxwell |
| 1883 | PHOTOGRAVURE | Photogravure, First in Britain by T. and R. Annan of Glasgow |
| 1863 | PISARRO | Pissarro,Lucien, d.1944 (Eragny Press) |
| 1520 | PLANTIN | Plantin, Christopher, d.1589 |
| 1569 | PLANTIN | Plantin, Polyglot Bible |
| 1866 | PLANTIN | Plantin Press, last dated work |
| 1876 | PLANTIN | Plantin-Moretus Museum acquired by the city of Antwerp |
| 1589 | PLANTIN | Plantin's death |
| 1584 | PLANTIN | Wagoner. Publication of 'Spegel der Zeevaerdt' printed in Leyden by Plantin, seecharts by Waghenaer. From his name was the term Wagoner for seecharts derived |
| 1482 | POETICON ASTRONOMICON | Poeticon Astronomicon by Erhard Ratdolt, illustrated with allegorical woodcuts |
| 1558 | POITIERS, DIANA DE | Mistress of Henry II, lobbied succesfully for a passage of an ordinace that required French publishers to present copies of every book they issued to the libraries of Blois and Fontainebleau. |
| 1840 | POLIDORI | Polidori Private Press founded, ceased activities in 1850 |
| 1569 | POLYGLOT | Polyglot Bible, printed by Plantin between 1569 and 1572 for Philip II of Spain |
| 1889 | POP UP | Pop-up. Meggendorfer's International Circus is published |
| 1885 | POP UP | Pop-Up. Levi Yaggy published a life size folio 'Yaggi's Anatomical Study' with layered illustrations |
| 1983 | POP UP | Pop-up. Viking Press 'The Human Body' |
| 1765 | POP UP | Pop-up. Robert Sayer of London produces childrens' metamorphosis, the Harliquinades. |
| 1857 | POUNCY, JOHN. | John Pouncy's DORSETSHIRE PHOTOGRAPHICALLY ILLUSTRATED was the first book illustrated by photolithography, two volumes containing 79 plates in total. |
| 1878 | PRINTING | Wicks, Frederick of Glasgow invented typecasting machine |
| 1499 | PRINTING PRESS | Printing Press, oldest known reproduction of, in Dance of Death printed in Lyon by M.Huss |
| 1702 | PRINTS, COLOUR | Jakob Christof Le Blon (1667-1741) was the first to produce an engraving in several colours. He took as his starting point Newston's theory, published in 1702, which stated that all colours in the spectrum are composed of the three primary colours -blue, yellow and red. In practice, however, in order to obtain a satisfactory impression, a fourth plate had to be added, bearing black lines. |
| 370 | PUBLIC LIBRARY ROME | Public libraries, in these days there were said to be 28 public libaries in Rome |
| 1911 | PURINGTON ROLLINS | Montague Press founded by Carl Purington Rollins (first time use of Bruce Rogers' Centaur type) |
| 1790 | QUADRUPEDS, BEWICK | Bewick: A General history of Quadrupeds |
| 1819 | QUARITCH | Quaritch, Bernard, d. 1899, antiquarian bookseller |
| 1553 | QUEEN MARY'S PSALTER | Queen Mary acquired the 14th century psalter (English psalter with 223 tinted drawings). Now in the British Library |
| 1936 | RAMPANT LION | Rampant lions Press' first book, Robert Nichols' A Spanish Triptych, published. Press was founded by Will Carter |
| 1956 | RANK | Rank-Xerox company fouded |
| 1931 | RAVEN PRESS | Raven Press founded at Harrow Weald, London, by Robert Maynard and Horace Bray |
| 1879 | REGEMORTER | Regemorter, Berthe van, d.1964. Belgium bookbinder |
| 1436 | REGIOMONTANUS | Regiomontanus, Johanes, d. 1476, printer at Königsberg, Germany, publisher of astronomical works |
| 1819 | REMINGTON | Sholes, Christopher, d.1890, inventor of typewriter, first perfected typewriter was marketed by Remington 1874 |
| 1878 | RENNER | Renner, Paul, d.1956, type designer, sanserif series Futura. Wrote Die Kunst der Typographie, published 1940 |
| 1340 | RICHES HEURES | Berry, Jean duc de (d.1416). Les Tres Riches Heures. |
| 1866 | RICKETTS | Ricketts,Charles, d. 1931, founder of the Vale Press |
| 1935 | ROGERS, BRUCE | Rogers. Oxford Lectern Bible printed by Bruce Rogers with his Centaur type |
| 1870 | ROGERS, BRUCE | Rogers, Bruce, d.1957. American printer and typographer. Worked at the Cambridge University Press and the Oxford University Press. Types designed by Rogers: Montaigne, Centaur |
| 1916 | ROGERS, BRUCE | Mall Press founded in London by Emery Walker and Bruce Rogers |
| 1418 | ROHAN | Rohan Book of Hours, made for Yolande of Aragon. |
| 1877 | ROOS, SJOERD DE | Roos, Sjoerd de, d.1962. Leading Dutch typedesigner. Types: De Roos Roman, Egmont, Hollandsche Mediaeval, Erasmus, Grotius. 1927 founded Heuvel Press |
| 1891 | ROSENWALD | Lessing J. Rosenwald, d. 1979. Former chairman of Sears, Roebuck Co. gave to the nation 2,600 exquisite volumes, the greates benefaction in the Library of Congress' history, including an enormous two volume illuminated manuscript known as the Great Bible of Mainz. produced in 1452, this book is thought to have influenced motifs and ornamentation used in the design of Gutenbergs 42 line bible, which was printed in the same year. Other treasures included Prolemy's COSMOGRAPHIA; William Blake's SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE; the only known copy of the first edition of the English version of the Lohengrin legend, THE KNIGHT OF THE SWAN and the only ilustrated book published by Manutius, Colonna's HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI. |
| -196 | ROSETTA STONE | The'Rosetta' stone is cut. It contains the same text in Egyptian hieroglyphic, Egyptian demotic, and Greek writing. It was discovered in 1799 near the mouth of the Nile and served to break the code for deciphering ancient Egyptian works. |
| 1799 | ROSETTA STONE | The'Rosetta' stone is cut. It contains the same text in Egyptian hieroglyphic, Egyptian demotic, and Greek writing. It was discovered in 1799 near the mouth of the Nile and served to break the code for deciphering ancient Egyptian works. |
| 1828 | ROSSETTI | Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, d.1882, painter and poet, designer of bookbindings |
| 1863 | ROTARY LETTERPRESS | Rotary web-fed letterpress machine invented by William Bullock. |
| 1878 | ROYEN | Royen, Jean-Francois van, d.1942. Director of Zilverdistel Press. |
| 1584 | RUETTE | Ruette, Mace, d.1644, Parisian master binder and court binder |
| 1914 | RUPPRECHT PRESSE | Rupprecht Press founded by Fritz Helmut Ehmcke |
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