Private Press File: C - D

Some of the links included in this list (particularly those that link to holdings in the MERLIN Catalog) are still under construction.

"C" Press

"C" Press was founded in 1963 by the poet Ted Berrigan. It specialized in publishing the works of young poets and at first operated as an underground press, distributing mimeographed books and pamphlets. The early issues of "C" magazine featured contributions by Andy Warhol. For a list of items at MU Libraries, click here.

Cabbagehead Press

Cabbagehead Press was founded in 1972 in Tempe, Arizona by John L. Risseeuw. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.

Cadenus Press

Cadensus Press is located in Dublin, Ireland and was active in the 1970's. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.

Caliban Press

Caliban Press was founded in 1985 in Montclair, New Jersey by Mark McMurray. It was moved in 1993 to Canton, New York. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.

See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.

Camberwell Press

The Camberwell Press, part of the Camberwell College of Arts in London, England, was founded by Eileen Hogan in 1984[?]. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.

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Capra Press

Capra Press was established in 1948 as Noel Young Printer by Noel Young in Santa Barbara, California. In 1969 its name was changed to Capricorn Press, and in 1979 it changed again to Capra Press. After a brief period of inactivity due to the extended illness of its founder, Capra Press was sold in 2001 to bookseller Robert Bason, who is now the proprietor. Click here for a list of materials at MU Libraries published by Capra Press, and here for a listing of those published under the Capricorn imprint.

Carriage House Press

The Carriage House Press is located in Brookline, Massachusetts.

See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.

Casanova Press

Casanova Press was established around 1932 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its proprietors were Harry B. Schwartz and Paul Romaine. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.

Caxton Club

The Caxton Club was founded in 1895 by fifteen bibliophiles -- book collectors, publishers, librarians, and designers -- in Chicago. The club's mission was to promote the art of fine printing in accordance with the Arts and Crafts movement current at the time of the club's foundation. They named the organization after William Caxton, the first English printer. The Caxton Club has published sixty-one books since 1895. For a list of materials at MU Libraries, click here.

Caxton Printers, Ltd.

Caxton Printers Ltd. is located in Caldwell, Idaho, and was founded by A.E. Gipson as a newspaper in 1896. The company eventually began to publish books as well, and is now a commercial printing business. Click here for a list of materials at MU Libraries.

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Center for Book Arts

The Center for Book Arts was founded in 1974 by Richard Minsky and is located in New York, New York. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.

See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.

Chama Press

Chama Press is located in Dallas, Texas and published its first book in 1989. Since then it has continued to publish material about the American Southwest.

See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.

Charlotte Press

Charlotte Press is located in Newcastle on Tyne, England. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.

Cheloniidae Press

Cheloniidae Press was founded by Alan James Robinson and Joel Ginsburg in 1979. It was later renamed Press of the Sea Turtle. It is located in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.

See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.

Cherryburn Press

Cherryburn Press was founded by the noted printer and designer R. Hunter Middleton in 1945 and is located in Chicago. Click here for a list of materials at MU Libraries.

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Chimaera Press

Chimaera Press was founded by Michael and Helen Hutchins. It is located in Beckenham, Kent, England. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.

See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.

Chiswick Press

Chiswick Press was established in the printing shop of Charles Whittingham in 1787. Although the press moved on a few occasions, it operated for the most part in London, England. Chiswick Press became influential in English printing and typography and, most notably, published some of the early designs of William Morris. The press continued to operate until 1962. Click here for a list of materials published by Chiswick Press at MU Libraries.

Chocorua Press

Chocorua Press was established around 1929 in New York, New York. Its proprietor was Joseph Leventhal. For a list of materials at MU Libraries, click here.

City Lights Books

City Lights Bookstore was established in 1953 in San Francisco, California, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin. It first began as a true "underground" press in the bookstore's basement.The bookstore promoted the literature of the Beat poets, and its publishing arm concentrates on literature outside of the traditional mainstream. Click here for a list of materials at MU Libraries.

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Clio Press

Clio Press was founded by Frank Luther Mott in Iowa City, Iowa, in the 1930s. Mott went on to serve as Dean of the University of Missouri School of Journalism from 1942 to 1951. Click here for a list of materials at MU Libraries.

Close-Grip Press

Close-Grip Press is located in University, Alabama. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.

See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.

Clowes, William & Sons

William Clowes founded a printing firm in 1803 in London. The firm expanded rapidly and combined with William Moore in 1870.

Club of Odd Volumes

The Club of Odd Volumes was an important early limited membership book club formed in 1887 in Boston, Massachusetts. The Merrymount Press published many of their books and ephemera. Click here for a list of materials at MU Libraries.

Coffee House Press

Coffee House Press is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The press's proprietors include Davd Duer, Allan Kornblum, and Cinda Kornblum. Founded in 1984, the press's focus is on works by members of groups that have been underrepresented in published literature. Prior to 1984 Coffee House Press published as the Toothpaste Press of West Branch, Iowa. Click here for a list of titles available at MU Libraries.

See also Toothpaste Press and the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.

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Coggeshall, Howard

Howard Coggeshall operated a private press in Utica, New York, and also worked with Frederick Goudy at the Village Press. Click here for a list of materials at MU Libraries.

Colish, A., Press of

Abraham Colish began working in printing shops at the age of twelve, and he established his own shop in New York, New York, in 1907. Colish's press specialized in advertising typography and is seen as one of the first printers to cater to the advertising business. By the 1920s, Colish worked with prominent artists and designers to create limited edition bokos. The press relocated to Mt. Vernon, New York, in 1956 and merged with Laurel Printing in the late 1980s. Click here for a list of materials at MU Libraries.

Colorado College, The Press at

The Press at Colorado College is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.

Colt Press

Colt Press was established in 1938 by Jane Grabhorn (wife of Robert Grabhorn of the Grabhorn Press). The press published regularly up to World War II, when all printing for the Colt Press was done by the Grabhorn Press. The press continued to operate, although irregularly, until 1965. For a list of materials at MU Libraries, click here.

Columbiad Club

The Columbiad Club is located in Meriden, Connecticut. Click here for a list of materials at MU Libraries.

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Contre Coup Press

Contre Coup Press is located in St. Louis, Missouri, and was founded by Tim Hawley. For a list of materials available at MU Libraries, click here.

See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.

Coracle Press

Coracle Press was founded by Simon Cutts and Erica Van Horn in the 1970s in London. Since 1996 it has been located in South Tipperary, Ireland, and is dedicated to publishing poetry, criticism, and other books by artists and writers.

See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.

Country Life Press

Country Life Press did much of the printing for Doubleday Press. Country Life produced books and magazines from a print shop on Long Island, where a rail station is still named after the company. Click here for a list of materials at MU Libraries.

Crabgrass Press

Crabgrass Press was established in 1951 in Prairie Village, Kansas, by Philip L. Metzger. For a list of materials at MU Libraries, click here.

See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.

Cranium Press

Cranium Press published its first book in 1966. It is located in San Francisco, California and was founded by master printer Clifford Burke. For a list of materials available at MU Libraries, click here.

See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.

Crippled Turtle, Press of the

The Press of the Crippled Turtle was operated by Frank Luther Mott in Columbia, Missouri, from the 1940s to the 1960s. The press printed ephemera relating to the Tabard Inn, an informal association of MU students and professors, as well as texts pertaining to the history of journalism.

See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.

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Cuala Press

Cuala press was the continuation of the Dun Emer Press founded by Elizabeth and Lily Yeats, the sisters of William Butler Yeats. The press was renamed when it moved from Dundrum, Ireland, to Churchtown in 1908. It made another move to Dublin in 1923. Cuala Press published its last book in 1946, issuing only greeting cards, prints and ephemera until its revival by another generation of the Yeats family in 1969.

A study of the Cuala Press has been made by Liam Miller, The Dun Emer Press, Later the Cuala Press, Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1973; and additional information is available in Pressmarks and devices used at the Dun Emer Press and the Cuala Press, Dalkey, Ireland: Cuala Press, 1977. Click here for a list of materials published by the Cuala Press available at MU Libraries.

Cummington Press

Cummington Press was founded by Harry Duncan in 1939. Originally based in Cummington, Massachusetts, the press moved with Duncan first to Iowa City, Iowa, and finally to Omaha, Nebraska in 1972. Duncan died in 1997, and Cummington Press production ceased in that year. The Cummington Press catalog is now managed by the Nebraska Book Arts Center. There are several resources at MU Libraries about the Cummington Press; click here for a list. For a list of materials published by Cummington Press at MU Libraries, click here.

See also Abbattoir Editions, Stone Wall Press, and the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.

Cummins, Maureen

Maureen Cummins received her training as a book artist at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City. She now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her works synthesize her historical research with the fine book arts. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.

See also Inanna Press and the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.

Curwen Press

Curwen Press was founded in 1863 in Plaistow, London, by the Reverend John Curwen. Originally called the Tonic Sol-Fa Agency, the press grew out of Curwen's efforts to promote a simpler method of teaching vocal music. The press continued to operate into the 1970s and became noted for its fine printing. Collaborations with fine artists led to the formation of the Curwen Studio, which still exists. More information can be found in Song and Words; A History of the Curwen Press by Herbert Simon, London, G. Allen & Unwin, 1973. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.

Cygnet Press

Cygnet Press was founded by George Parker Winship and Philip Hofer in 1928 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Winship was a rare book librarian at the Widener Collection at Harvard University, and Hofer founded the first department of Printing and Graphic Arts in the United States at Harvard after serving as assistant director of the Morgan Library in New York. Click here for a list of materials at MU Libraries.

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Dahlstrom, Grant

Grant Dahlstrom was a printer and typographer who applied his talents to several printing projects, including the Breakfast Press and the Castle Press. For related materials in the collections of MU Libraries, click here.

See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.

Daniel Press

The Daniel Press was founded by Charles Henry Olive Daniel, provost of Worcester College in Oxford, England. Daniel started printing in 1852 as a child, but the Daniel Press officially began in 1874. Daniel collaborated with his wife, who bound the books and sometimes colored initials by hand. Although not considered part of the Arts and Crafts movement, the Daniels expressed many of the same philosophical and aesthetic inclinations as prominent Arts and Crafts printers, and their press is considered a forerunner of the English private press movement. The press closed in 1906, and C.H.O. Daniel died in 1919. MU Libraries owns one of the first books published by Daniel, a Christmas story written by his uncle and published under the imprint of H. Daniel in Frome, Somerset, England in 1852. Click here to view the MERLIN record.

De La More Press

De La More Press was founded by Alexander Moring in 1895 in London, England. The press published various works on art and literature. For a list of materials at MU Libraries, click here.

Dead Angel Press

Dead Angel Press is located in San Francisco. For a list of materials at MU Libraries, click here.

Decker Press

Decker Press began as the Press of James A. Decker in 1938 in Praire City, Illinois. The printing was done on an iron letterpress by Decker and his sister Dorothy. Decker intended the press as a vehicle to promote poetry, and it attracted prominent poets despite its financial problems. The press was sold to Harry Denman in 1943, and sold again to Ervin Tax in 1948. Tax changed the name to Decker Press. James Decker was fired from the press for embezzling funds in 1949, and press production ceased when Dorothy Decker killed Tax and herself in 1950. Click here for a list of materials at MU Libraries published under the Press of James A. Decker imprint, and here for a list of those published by the Decker Press.

Detroit Institute of Arts Founders Society

The Detroit Insitute of Arts Founders Society is a donor organization designed to support the museum of the DIA. Limited editions are occasionally presented as projects sponsored by the society to benefit the museum and its programs.

See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.

Devinne Press

Devinne Press was established before 1883 in New York City. The proprietor was Theodore L. Devinne. The press published books for the Grolier Club. Click here for a list of materials at MU Libraries.

Diamant Typographic Service

Diamant Typographic Service was founded by E.M. Diamant and focused on the design of typeface. For a list of items at MU Libraries, click here.

Die Ananase Press

Located in Missouri.

See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.

Dogwood Press

Frank McCaffrey established the Dogwood Press in the early 1930s in Seattle, Washington. The press became known for its fine printing, and McCaffrey was noted for his craftsmanship. Click here for a list of items at MU Libraries.

Dolmen Press

Liam Miller founded Dolmen Press at Drumcondra, Ireland, in 1951. The press moved to Glengeary a few years later and was located in Dublin by 1958. It was dedicated to the work of Irish poets. A bibliography of the press is available: Dolmen XXV: An Illustrated Bibliography of the Dolmen Press, 1951-1976, compiled by Liam Miller, Dublin: Dolmen Editions, 1976. Click here for a list of items at MU Libraries.

Domesday Press

The Domesday Press was founded by George and Veronica Hornsby in 1936 in Providence, Connecticut. It moved to Meriden, CT in 1937, and then to New York before 1941. George Hornby worked for a short time for the Limited Editions Club. After moving to New York, the Domesday Press became a commercial press that specialized in publishing children's books. Click here for a list of materials at MU Libraries.

Doomsday Press

Founded in the late 1930s, the Doomsday Press was located in Rochester, Minnesota. Its proprietor was Dr. James Eckman. Click here for a list of materials at MU Libraries.

Dov Press

Dov Press is based in Washington, D.C. Its output is distributed solely through Joshua Heller Rare Books, Inc., in Washington, D.C.

See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.

Doves Press

The Doves Press was one of the most important private presses of the early twentieth century. Founded by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker in 1900, the press helped to spur a revival in the art and craft of fine printing and book making. Both Cobden-Sanderson and Walker were involved with William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. The so-called Doves Bible, printed in 1903, is considered to be the press's masterpiece. Doves type, based on letter forms of the sixteenth century, also became noted for tis beauty and balance. Doves Press printed its last books in 1916, and Cobden-Sanderson threw the type into the Thames River so that it would never be used again. Several books are available on the subject of this prominent press; click here to see a listing. Click here for a list of materials published by Doves Press at MU Libraries.

Dropmore Press

Dropmore Press was established by Edward Shanks in 1945 in London, England. It was formerly called the Corvinus Press, but was bought in 1945 by Lord Kemsley and put under the direction of Edward Shanks. Click here for a list of materials at MU Libraries.

Duensing, Paul Hayden

Paul Hayden Duensing is a printer and typefounder who has also written extensively on his field. For related materials in the collections of the MU Libraries, click here.

See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.

Dun Emer Press

Dun Emer Press was founded by the Yeats family as part of Evelyn Gleeson's Dun Emer Industries at her house outside Dundrum, Ireland. The press was part of a larger project to provide a source of employment for women, and it focused on publishing works of literary merit by Irish authors. It was called the Dun Emer Press until 1908, when it changed its name to Cuala Press and moved to Churchtown, Ireland. Click here for a list of materials published under the Dun Emer Press name

Duschnes, Philip C.

Philip C. Duschnes was a rare book dealer and publisher in New York City. Duschne served as a sole distributor for several private presses. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.

See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.