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.