Certificate of membership of the Typographical Association of Richard P O'Connor, Feb 1879. Signed by Richard Iveson, president, and Henry Slatter, secretary. Colour printed scenes on card. In top corners busts in profile named in Gothic lettering Wynryn de Borde and Johann Gutenberg. In centre, bust of a bearded man, date 1474 in background, poem dedicated to Caxton, founder of the British press, below. Books, spines forward, below this, The Book of God and Advancement ... Civilisation. Below this, scene of bearded man, seated, reading page, young man and two older around, titled Caxton examining proof sheet. These centre scenes bordered with rose plants. Scenes to l.: Above: semi-naked male and female with dog crouching, Stonehenge and lightning behind, titled Darkness and Superstition; Centre: the village school, children reading and writing, elderly schoolmistress, dunce in background. Below: printworks compositors room. Scenes to r.: Above: Child kneeling reading from a book on a seated crowned females knee, titled Enlightenment. Centre: Man, woman and children in medieval dress in church, man reading book on lectern, titled The Peoples Bible. Below: scene titled Machine Printing. Certificate on scroll below these scenes. H Blacklock & Co., Chromo-Lithographers, Manchester and London. Framed after acquisition