Sources
A note on copyright: Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders, where appropriate, of published materials used on this website. We would be very glad to hear from copyright holders who have been omitted, so that we may credit them in a future update of the site.
A note on missing publications: If you have issues we are missing (or if you know the whereabouts of such issues), we would like to hear from you.
The abbreviations in bold face are those used in the People files.
House Magazines
Busheygrams (BGms)
At least 11 issues, from 1913 until 1915, were issued by André and Sleigh / Bushey Colour Press.
We have photocopies or photographs of certain pages of:
No. 1
No. 2
[No. 2, ‘Bushey-crams,’ February 1914] [a spoof produced for a company dinner]
No. 3
[...]
No. 5, March 1914
No. 6 (Printing Exhibition Number)
No. 7
No. 8
No. 9
No. 10
No. 11
Busheygrams became...
Illustration (Illustr)
Illustration ‘New Series’ ran from 1915 to 1921; the total number of issues is unknown.
We have:
No. 1, Vol. IV [1915] (published by André, Sleigh & Anglo)
[...]
No. 3, Vol. IV [early 1918] (published by Sun Engraving Co.)
[...]
No. 5, Vol. IV [autumn 1919]
No. 6 [Christmas 1919]
No. 7, Vol. IV
[...]
[...]
No. 10, Vol. VI
No. 11, Vol. VI
No. 12, Vol. VI
No. 13, Vol. VI
No. 14, Vol. VII
No. 15, Vol. VII
No. 16, Vol. VII.
Sun War News (SWn)
At least 7 issues were published by Sun Engraving Co. from September 1941 until October 1943.
We have:
No. 1, Sept 1941
[...]
[No. 3] , Christmas 1941
No. 4, May 1942
No. 5, Aug 1942
And one issue, date unknown (part of cover missing).
Sun War News became ...
The ‘Sun’ at War (SaW)
Four bound volumes were published in October 1943, April 1944, December 1944, and October 1945.
We have all four volumes.Impressions (Hazell-Sun House Magazine) (Impr)
69 issues were published by Hazell-Sun between 1949 and 1966.
We now have all issues (or copies thereof). Sincere thanks to Rosemary Hanscombe for the donation of a complete set.
Sun News (including Rembrandt) (sn)
This first series, published by Sun Printers, ran from 1954 to 1960. It overlapped Impressions.
We have all issues except no. 1.
Sun News (sn)
Produced by Roy Evans, Graham Leech, and Digby Wakeman and published by Sun Printers. The series ran from 1961 to 1968. It overlapped Impressions.
We have:
1961: December
1962: February, April, June/July, August, October, December
1963: February, April, June [personnel section only], August, October, December
1964: February, May, August, October, December
1965: Spring, Summer, Autumn, December
1966: Spring, Summer, Autumn, December
1967: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Christmas
1968: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Christmas
Sun News became...
Sun News (‘Sunews’/‘SUNews’), New Series (snn)
87 issues were published by Sun Printers between 1969 and Winter 1980/81.
We have issues 1-87, and issue 89 (October 1981, in A4 size). We are missing issue 88 and any that may have been published after issue 89.
Company Publications and Promotions
The Sun Compendium (Sun Engraving Co., 1929)
Sun Type Book (Sun Engraving Co., c.1932)
The Book of Sungravure (Sun Engraving Co., c.1938)
Sungravure Printing Equipment (Sun Engraving Co., 1938)
Sun Printers Ltd Types (Sun Printers, c.1946)
Operation ‘Sun’Rise (Sun Printers, c.1953)
SUN in the seventies (Sun Printers, c.1970)
Into the 80’s with SUN Printers (Sun Printers, c.1980)
Other Publications
Leech, Miriam, with Charles F. Cook, David
Greenhill, Master Printer (Private, c. 1951).
Hunter, Eileen, The Profound Attachment
(London: André Deutsch, 1969).
Lilien, Otto M., Early History of Industrial
Gravure Printing to 1900 (Reading: Berkshire College of Art,
1963).
–– History of Industrial Gravure
Printing up to 1920 (London: Lund Humphries, 1972).
Mertle, J.S., Evolution of Photogravure
(Oshkosh, WI: Private, 1957).