Private Press - Notable Private Presses

Notable Private Presses

  • Ad insigne pinus in Augsburg from 1594 to 1619.
  • Strawberry Hill Press — the Officina Arbuteana — of Horace Walpole.
  • Gaetano Polidori, a private press in London c. 1800.
  • Daniel Press in Oxford from 1874 to 1903.
  • Kelmscott Press set up by William Morris in 1891.
  • The Mosher Press set up by Thomas Bird Mosher in 1891 in Portland, Maine.
  • Roycroft Press set up by Elbert Hubbard in 1895.
  • Doves Press founded by T. J. Cobden Sanderson and Emery Walker in 1900.
  • Dun Emer Press, founded by Elizabeth Yeats in 1903
  • Gregynog Press (1922-) Founded by Gwendoline and Margaret Davis
  • Trovillion Press at the Sign of the Silver Horse, set up by Hal W. Trovillion in Herrin, Illinois in 1908.
  • The Golden Cockerel Press founded by Harold Midgley Taylor in 1920.
  • Nonesuch Press founded in 1922 by Francis and Vera Meynell, and David Garnett.
  • Rampant Lions Press founded by Will Carter in 1924 and continued by his son Sebastian until 2008.
  • Nancy Cunard's Hours Press in France from 1928 to 1931.
  • The Perishable Press Limited founded by Walter Hamady in 1964.
  • Black Rock Press, founded by Kenneth Carpenter at the University of Nevada, Reno, in 1965
  • M. Bernard Loates, A Private Press, founded in 1968.
  • Happy Dragons' Press founded in 1969.
  • Something Else Press operated by Dick Higgins from 1964 to 1973.
  • Stanbrook Abbey Press, which was revived by Dames Hildelith Cumming and Felicitas Corrigan.
  • John Fass The Hammer Creek Press, founded by John Fass in 1950.

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