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Abattoir Editions is the laboratory and publishing press of the University of Nebraska in Omaha. It was established in 1972. Harry Duncan was the director from 1972 to 1985, and the current director, Bonnie O'Connell (formerly of Penumbra Press), began in 1986. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
See also Cummington Press and Penumbra Press.
Elfriede Abbe is a graphic artist from Manchester Center, Vermont, born in 1919. She creates handprinted woodcut books. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
Appears to have been the imprint of an Introduction to Typography class taught by J. Hill Hamon at Transylvania University, Lexington, KY.
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Adagio Press was founded in the late 1950's by Leonard F. Bahr at Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan. The press later moved to Harper Woods, Michigan. Adagio Press specialized in small books and pamphlets. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
Adastra Press is located in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
Albondocani Press is located in New York, New York. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
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Located in Santa Cruz, California.
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Aldus Printers was located in New York and did fine printing for the Limited Editions Club. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See also Limited Editions Club.
Located in Toronto, Ontario and established in 1962. Creates private press books. Click here for titles available at MU Libraries.
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A book artist from England born in 1943. She works as a freelance printmaker and private press for the design, printing and binding of small edition artist's books.
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Located in San Francisco, California and established in 1976. Creates limited edition books and decorative wall calendars. Click here for titles available at MU Libraries.
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Amate Press is located in Oxford, England. Robin Waterfield is the proprietor. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
The American Institue of Graphic Arts operates primarily as a membership organization for graphic design professionals. It was founded in 1914 and is located in New York. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
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Gregg Anderson and Ward Ritchie met in the late 1920s. Their shared interest in printing and typography led to Anderson's joining the Ward Ritchie Press around 1935. In 1940, the decision was made to make Anderson & Ritchie a separate company from the Ward Ritchie Press. From then on, Anderson & Ritchie was responsible for the printing and commercial publishing aspect of the business, while the Ward Ritchie Press concentrated on publishing and designing literary works. Anderson has been described as a talented printer and businessman, and the company grew and became profitable under his administration. Anderson was drafted into the Army in 1942 and was killed in action in 1944. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See also Anderson, Ritchie & Simon and Ward Ritchie Press.
Joe Simon was hired as a press assistant at Anderson & Ritchie in 1937, and he helped to hold the company together during World War II after the departures of Gregg Anderson and Ward Ritchie for the war effort. Simon was trained in printing by his sister and brother-in-law, Saul and Lillian Marks, at the Plantin Press in Los Angeles. After the death of Gregg Anderson, his widow, Caroline Bennett Anderson, sold her share in the business to Simon, and the firm was renamed Anderson, Ritchie & Simon. The Ward Ritchie Press name was retained for occasional limited edition work designed by Ward Ritchie.
A checklist and history of the Ward Ritchie Press and Anderson, Ritchie & Simon has been published by Ward Ritchie: The Ward Ritchie Press, and Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, Los Angeles, 1961. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See also Plantin Press, Anderson & Ritchie and Ward Ritchie Press.
Valenti Angelo was a well known artist, printer and book illustrator. He worked with several private presses to create illustrated limited edition books, and he also authored and illustrated a number of children's books.
MU Libraries hold a few books on the life and work of Valenti Angelo; click here for a list of these materials. Click here for a list of materials by Valenti Angelo at MU Libraries.
See also Heritage Press, Limited Editions Club, Book Club of California, and Peter Pauper Press.
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Anson Jones Press was founded in 1929 in Houston, Texas, by Herbert Herrick Fletcher, a librarian and bookseller. The press was established when Fletcher and his wife Thelma Rawls Fletcher were offered 585 surplus copies of Anson Jones's Memoranda and Official Correspondence Relating to the Republic of Texas left over from the original printing in 1860. Profits from the sale of the books financed the beginning of the press, which emphasized Texas history and authors.
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Fred Anthoensen was hired as a compositor at the Southworth Press of Portland, Maine, in 1901, was promoted to managing director in 1917, and was a partner in the firm of Southworth-Anthoensen by 1934. In 1944 the press dropped the Southworth name and became Anthoensen Press. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See also Southworth-Anthoensen Press.
The Anvil Press was established in 1952 by Joseph Graves, Carolyn Reading, and others, to express appreciation for the ideals and teaching of Victor Hammer. Victor Hammer was a successful printer and artist who spent his early career in Europe. In 1939 he moved to the United States, where he taught at Wells College in Aurora, New York. He established two private presses, Wells College Press and Hammer Press. The Anvil Press is located at Transylvania College in Lexington, Kentucky. For a list of titles available at MU Libraries, click here.
A discussion of the press and related presses can be found in The Private Press Tradition in Lexington, Kentucky and Fine Printing In Lexington.
See also Stamperia del Santuccio and King Library Press, and the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
The Press of Appletree Alley is located in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania and is associated with Bucknell University. Its founder is Barnard Taylor. Click here for a list of materials in MU Libraries.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
Arif press was established in 1970 in Berkeley, California. Its proprietor is Wesley Tanner. For a list of materials available at MU Libraries, click here.
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Arion Press is located in San Francisco, California and founded by Andrew Hoyem in 1974. The press creates deluxe, limited-edition books, many of which are illustrated by well-known artists. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
See also Auerhahn Press, Grabhorn-Hoyem and the listing for Arion Press in the Press Ephemera Collection.
The private press of Don Hildreth, Ash Ranch Press was established in 1984 in Hemet, California, publishing journals and pamphlets on Western Americana. The press was relocated to San Diego in 1986 and now focuses on miniature books. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
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Ashantilly Press was establshed in 1955 in Darien, Georgia by William Greaner Haynes, Jr. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
Ashby Lane Press was established in 1974 as the private press for Bryan Foster and is located in Bitteswell, near Lutterworth in England. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
Ashendene Press was founded in 1895 at Ashendene, Hertfordshire, England, by Sir C. H. St. John Hornby and moved in 1899 to Chelsea, London. It continued until 1935. More information about the press is available in A descriptive bibliography of the books printed at the Ashendene Press, MDCCCXCV-MCMXXXV. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1976. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
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Aspioti-Elka Graphic Arts was located in Athens, Greece, and did printing for the Limited Editions Club. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See also Limited Editions Club.
Athens Press was active in the 1930's in Iowa City, Iowa, and published some limited edition books as well as other more general material. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
The Auerhahn Press was begun in 1958 by Dave Haselwood in San Francisco, California. Andrew Hoyem became a partner in the press in the early 1960s. The press did job printing and ephemera in order to finance the publication of modernist poetry, particularly that of the Beat poets. Auerhahn Press continued until January, 1965. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
See also Grabhorn-Hoyem and Arion Press.
Avalun-Verlag began in about 1921 in Wein, Leipzig, Germany. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
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Ballantyne Press was founded in Kelso, Scotland in 1799 by James Ballantyne. The press moved to Edinburgh in 1802 and Sir Walter Scott became a partner with Ballantyne in 1805. The press opened a London branch and later printed books for Vale Press and Ergany Press. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
See also Eragny Press and Vale Press.
The Banyan Press was founded in 1946 in New York by Claude Fredericks. It later moved to Pawlet, Vermont. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
Barn Collections Press is located in Iowa City, Iowa.
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The Bartlett Orr Press is located in New York. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
The Basilisk Press is located in London and was founded in 1974 by Charlene Garry. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
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Leonard Baskin was a prominent sculptor and printmaker. His woodcuts were well known for their experimental and graphic qualities. Baskin was also the founder of the Gehenna Press, which published illustrated books. Click here for a list of works authored by Leonard Baskin. Studies of Baskin's work are numerous. For a list of books about Leonard Baskin in MU Libraries, click here.
See also Gehenna Press, Limited Editions Club, and Stinehour Press.
Bauersche Giesserei were typefounders located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1837 and continued until 1971. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
The Baxter Society is a book arts and book collecting club located in Portland, Maine. They also publish limited edition books.
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Baynard Press was established in 1894 by F. Sanders Phillips. It was located in London. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
Beaumont Press was established in 1917 by Cyril W. Beaumont. It was located in Westminter, London and published 26 books before closing in 1931. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
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Peter Beilenson was a printer active in New York, beginning in Larchmont, and later moving to Mount Vernon, New York. He founded the Peter Pauper Press and the Walpole Printing Office (with Edmund B. Thompson), and also pubished a few more risqué volumes under the name At the Sign of the Blue-Behinded Ape. After his death in 1961, his wife, Edna Beilenson took over Peter Pauper Press and continued printing. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
See also Peter Pauper Press and Walpole Printing Office.
The Private Press of Harold Berliner was located in Nevada City, California and was founded in 1945. In addition to the press, he also operates Harold Berliner's Typefoundry. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
The Charles Bevan Press is located in St. Louis, Missouri.
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The Bieler Press was established in 1975 by Gerland Lange and is located in Marina Del Ray, California. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
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Big Mountain Press is located in Denver, Colorado. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
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The Bird & Bull Press was founded by Henry Morris in 1958. It is located in Newtown, Pennsylvania. More information about the press is available in Thirty years of Bird & Bull: a bibliography, 1958-1988 by Howell J. Heaney. Newtown [Pa.] : Bird & Bull Press, 1988. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
While not strictly a private press, Mr. and Mrs. William K. Bixby were active bibliophiles and collectors. They had many works printed for them. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
The Black Archer Press was established in Chicago, Illinois about 1930. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
The Black Cat Press was located in Skokie, Illinois on the north side of Chicago, and was established in 1934[?]. The proprietor was Norman W. Forgue. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
See also Press of the Black Flag Raised and Norman Press.
The Black Cygnet Press is located in Durham, England. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
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The Press of the Black Flag Raised was located in Skokie, Illinois on the north side of Chicago, and was established in 1934[?]. The proprietor was Norman W. Forgue. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
See also Black Cat Press and Norman Press.
The Black Pennell Press is located in Greenock, Scotland. It was established in 1982 by Thomas Rae after he retired from other printing business. Thomas Rae also produced books under the Grian-aig Press and the Signet Press names. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
See also Signet Press and Grian-aig Press and the listing for Black Pennell Press in the Press Ephemera Collection .
The Black Sparrow Press was located in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, California. It was established in 1966 by John Martin, and announced its closure in 2002. It specialized in publishing works by poets.
More information about the press is available in Bradford Morrow and Seamus Cooney's A bibliography of the Black Sparrow Press, 1966-1978. Santa Barbara : Black Sparrow Press, 1981.
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Black Stone Press was foundind in 1974 in Montana by Peter Koch. It was relocated to San Fancisco, California in 1979 and continued until 1984.
See also Koch, Peter Rutledge and the listing for Black Stone Press in the Press Ephemera Collection.
Black Sun Press was originally begun in 1927 as Éditions Narcisse by Harry and Caresse Crosby in Paris, France. The name was changed to Black Sun Press in mid-1928. After Harry's death in 1929, the press broadened its scope and printing continued until 1951, although the press did not offically close until Careese' death in 1970.
More information about the press is available in A Bibliography of the Black Sun Press by George Robert Minkoff. Great Neck, N.Y., 1970, and The Black Sun Press by Shelley Cox. Carbondale, Ill.: Friends of Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, 1977.
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Black Swan Press is located in Chicago, Illinois. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
Black Vine Press is located in San Francisco, California Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
Bodley Head was begun in 1887 by John Lane and Elkin Mathews in London. In 1937, a group of publishers bought Bodley Head. The company was sold again after World War II. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
Publishers Horace Liveright and Albert Boni founded Boni & Liveright in 1916 in order to bring modern literature to the American public. The company was noted for printing controversial writings by authors often considered radical and even immoral by contemporary anti-vice societies. Boni & Liveright were the original publishers of the popular and influential Modern Library Series, but the company was sold by 1930. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See also Liveright, Horace.
Dr. Terry Belanger began the Book Arts Press at Columbia University in New York in 1972. The press served as a laboratory of the rare book program of the Columbia University School of Library Service. The press transferred to the University of Virginia, Charlottesville when Dr. Belanger became a professor there in 1992. It was renamed the Rare Book School in 2000. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
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The Book Club of California is a limited membership book club in San Francisco, California which publishes some private press books. The club was established in 1912 and published its first book in 1915. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
The Book Club of Texas was established in 1929 by Stanley Marcus and is dedicated to publishing books "designed and produced by notable printers who work with texts of lasting historical and literary merit" (website). The club is now located in the Special Collections division of the Texas Tech University Library. For a list of materials available at MU Libraries, click here.
The Bow and Arrow Press is used for teaching typography, design, printmaking, and book arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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The Boxwood Press is located in Statesboro, Georgia.
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Bradford Press was established in 1936 in Portland, Maine. For a list of materials available at MU Libraries, click here.
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Bremer Presse was established in 1911 by Ludwig Wolde and Willi Wiegand, with others. It was located in the German city of Bremen from 1911-1918 and moved to Toelz in 1918. In 1939 the press moved to Munich, where it was destroyed in the bombings of 1944. Wolde and Wiegand modeled their press after the English Doves Press, whose economical use of decoration and clean typefaces proved influential in the development of modern book design. For a list of materials available at MU Libraries, click here.
The Brewhouse Private Press is loacted in Wymondham, Leicestershire, England and is operated by Trevor C. Hickman. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
Brindabella Press is located in Deakon, Canberra, Australia. It was founded in 1972 by Alexander Thorley Bolton, and has continued after his death in 1996. It is now owned by the Brindabella Group. From 1985 to 1992, Officina Brindabella was the name used for the press.
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Bronte Press is located in Kankakee, Illinois and and is operated by Suzanne Granzow Pruchnicki and Paul John Pruchnicki. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
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Sam and Sally Green began printing poetry chapbooks in their Seattle home in 1978, but moved to a small island off the coast of Washington in 1982. There they operate a small farm and have built their own house and studio, all without electricity or running water. The Brooding Heron Press was named after their emphasis on the nurturing and creative process instead of the final product.
The Greens print about 3 titles per year on a C&P platen press and focus on works of poetry. Their work has been recognized with several awards and reviews.
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Buckner Press was located in Santa Barbara, California. It was active from approximately 1993 to 1996.
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Burning Deck Press established in 1961 by Keith and Rosemarie Waldrop in Providence, Rhode Island. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.
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