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SSt. Albert's Press is the press of the British Province of Carmelites at Aylesford in Kent, England. The press was founded in 1954 and was intended to publish religious and devotional texts, including a Carmelite magazine and other means for the monks to communicate with the laity. Although production at the press ceased in the 1970s due to financial difficulties, it continued to be used as an imprint. Books and other materials were printed at other small presses, including the Roundwood Press, until printing at the St. Albert's Press resumed in 2003.
Salient Seedling Press is the private press of Kathy Kuehn and was originally located in Madison, Wisconsin. It was founded in 1978 and has moved several times. The press is now located in Portland, Oregon, where Kuehn is an instructor at the Oregon College of Art and Craft. Kuehn was a student of Walter Hamady at the Perishable Press, and she often collaborates with authors and artists for her limited edition books.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
Norman Tanis founded the Santa Susana Press at California State University, Northridge, in 1974. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection .
Scarab Press was established in 1923. The name was used to protect the anonymity of the proprietor, who did all of the printing and binding alone. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
A private press publishing limited editions. Clich here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection .
Sceptre Press began in Frensham, Surrey, England, and was established in 1969 by Martin Booth. It moved later moved to Rushden, Northamptonshire, and then to Knotting, Bedfordshire, where it was located for the majority of its existence. The press published modern poetry in the 1970s in limited edition booklets and broadsides of 150 or less. The press ceased operations in 1981, but the rights to its name were bought by Nora Aldridge in 1984. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
Eric Partridge founded the Scholartis Press in 1927 in London, England. The press closed in 1931 due to the beginning of the Depression. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
Schori Private Press was established in 1958 by Ward K. Schori in Evanston, Illinois. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
First located in Northport, Alabama, then moved to Columbia, South Carolina.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
Senecio Press is located in Charlbury, Oxford, England. Adrian Lack is the proprietor. The press is a printmaking studio that collaborates with other private presses on illustrated limited edition books. It also publishes illustrated books of poetry under its own imprint. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
Seton Village Press was established in 1938 by Maurice Taylor in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The press focused on regional literature and folklore. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
Located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
Arthur Henry Bullen, a Shakespeare scholar, founded the Shakespeare Head Press in Stratford-upon-Avon, Oxfordshire, England, in 1904. The goal of the press was to publish a good version of all of Shakespeare's works, and in addition to this the press published much English literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The press was sold to the publisher Basil Blackwell in 1927.
More information is available in Frank Sidgwick's Diary and other material relating to A. H. Bullen, & the Shakespeare Head Press at Stratford-upon-Avon by Frank Sidgwick, Oxford: Blackwell for the Shakespeare Head Press, 1975. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
Clement Shorter was born in 1857 in London, England, and became a noted British editor and journalist. His published works included studies of Napoleon and Victorian writers. He was also interested in collecting books and ephemera relating to his favorite authors, particularly the Bronte sisters. His private press was used to distribute writings by his favorite authors to his friends and associates. Shorter died in 1926. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
Sherwin Beach Press was established in 1984 by Bob McCamant and specializes in fine limited editions of nonfiction prose. McCamant works as the designer, and Martha Chiplis and Jennifer Hughes are the printers. The press is located in Chicago, Illinois.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
Located in Orinda, California. Philip and Anna Morrison are the proprietors.
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Shulamis Press was founded in 1996 to publish works that explore Jewish themes in fine limited editions. Sue Abbe Kaplan is the proprietor, and the press is located in Venice, California.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
Walt Wheelock was the proprietor of La Siesta Press, which he founded in 1960. The press specialized in guidebooks about the mountains, deserts, trails and flora of California and was located in Glendale, California. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
George W. Jones founded the Sign of the Dolphin Press in 1911 in London, England. Strongly influenced by William Morris, Jones promoted an Arts and Crafts aesthetic and even commissioned typographer Edward Prince to design a proprietary font, called Venezia, for his new press. Jones himself oversaw the design of several important fonts, including Granjon, Baskerville, Estienne, and Georgian. The Sign of the Dolphin did printing for several prominent publishing houses, including the Nonesuch Press. Jones retired in 1938 and died in 1942. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
The Sign of the Stone Book was located in Bloomfield, Connecticut, and did printing for the Limited Editions Club. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See also Limited Editions Club.
The Sign of the Stone Compass printed books for the Limited Editions Club. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See also Limited Editions Club.
Thomas Rae was the founder of the Signet Press, which was located in Greenock, Scotland. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See also Grian-aig Press and Black Pennell Press.
Karlene Gentile established Singing Wind Publications in 1975 in Columbia, Missouri. The press later moved to St. Louis. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
Robert Shaftoe originally founded the Silver Buckle Press and assembled its collection of nineteenth-century equipment and type. After his death, the University of Wisconsin at Madison acquired the press collection at the urging of Walter Hamady, a member of the faculty of the art department and proprietor of the well-known Perishable Press. The Silver Buckle Press is now the press of the library of the University of Wisconsin, Madison and prints limited edition publications.
See also Perishable Press and the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
Christopher Skelton was a noted printer, typographer and publisher. A nephew of Eric Gill, he was taught by the prominent printer Rene Hague, Gill's son-in-law. Skelton's private press was established in Wellingborough, England, in 1968. The press was sold in 1984, but Skelton continued to collaborate with Alan Bultitude in the September Press. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
Leonard Smithers has been called "Publisher to the Decadents" and was a friend of Oscar Wilde. Well-known for his worldliness and womanizing, Smithers published many books that other publishers would not, including the works of Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, and others. He also published pornography. James G. Nelson has made a study of his influence in the recent book, Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson, University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. Click here for a list of materials published by Smithers available at MU Libraries.
Soft Press was founded in 1970 by Robert Sward in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Sward was poet in residence at the University of British Columbia beginning in 1969, and his press focused on the poets of the West Coast. The press was sold in 1977. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
Stefan and Myriam S.P. de Arteni are the proprietors of Sol Invictus Pres, which they founded in 1991. The press specializes in artist's books, particularly those embellished with the Chinese art of seal cutting. Stefan Arteni is internationally recognized as a practitioner of the book arts of Japan and China.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
Somesuch Press is a publisher of miniature books located in Dallas, Texas. Stanley Marcus is the proprietor.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection .
Dick Higgins founded the Something Else Press in the mid-1960s. As an artist and poet, Higgins collaborated on some Fluxus projects, but Higgins published poetry in high-quality, experimental formats. His press was the first dedicated to "artists' books" in the United States. Although celebrated for its fine work, the press suffered from personal conflicts among its staff and went bankrupt in 1973. Higgins continued to work in fine printing with Unpublished Editions, an imprint he founded in 1972.
Peter Frank published a list of the publications of the press in 1983 under the title: Something Else Press: An Annotated Bibliography, New Paltz, NY: McPherson, 1983. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
Soncino Press specializes in publishing the Hebrew classics in English translation. Named for Joshua Soncino, who set up the first Hebrew printing press in 1484, Soncino Press has also published some books about typography and the history of printing. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
Rev. Francis Southworth founded the Southworth-Anthoesen Press in 1875, originally calling it the Southworth Press. Fred Anthoensen, who joined the Press in 1901, became a partner in the firm in 1934, and the press was renamed Southworth-Anthoensen. In 1944 the press dropped the Southworth name, becoming the Anthoensen Press. After Anthoensen's death in 1969, the press continued under various managers until it closed in 1987. The press specialized in fine press productions and books for private customers such as the Limited Editions Club and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was located in Portland, Maine.
Two works are available on the history of the press at MU Libraries; click here to see a list. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See also Limited Editions Club and Anthoensen Press.
Joseph Blumenthal established the Spiral Press in 1926 in New York. The press became an important force in American literature, publishing poets such as Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, and William Carlos Williams. His high standards for book design and production also led to numerous recognitions and a long list of clients, including institutions such as The Morgan Library and The Grolier Club. Blumenthal's type design, Spiral, was adapted for commercial book production, and he also authored books and exhibitions of the history of books and printing.
For works about the Spiral Press, click here. Materials dealing with the life of Joseph Blumenthal are listed here . Click here for a list of materials published by Spiral Press and available at MU Libraries.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection .
Jack D. Rittenhouse established the Stagecoach Press in Sierra Madre, California, in 1949. The press later moved to Houston, Texas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, and it specialized in historical texts about the American West. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See Edizioni Ampersand and the listing for Stamperia Ampersand in the Press Ephemera Collection.
The Stamperia del Santuccio was Victor Hammer's first press, established with his wife, Carolyn Reading Hammer, in 1929 in Florence, Italy. The press was located in an old villa and later relocated to Lexington, Kentucky, when the Hammers moved to the United States. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See also Anvil Press and King Library Press, and the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
Giovanni Mardersteig founded the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy, in 1948. The press was set up to do lithography and became internationally renowned for its fine illustrated books. Martino Mardersteig, Giovanni's son, took over the running of the press and is a noted book designer in his own right. Stamperia Valdonega is still in operation. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See also Officina Bodoni.
Larry Stark is a conceptual artist and printmaker who lives and works in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
Located in London, England. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
Jules Faye and Chris Stern operate the Grey Spider Press and the Street of Crocodiles Printery in a converted barn in Sedro-Woolley, Washington. Although they work together, each maintains an independent imprint: Grey Spider Press belongs to Chris Stern, and Street of Crocodiles belongs to Jules Faye. The two printers consult and assist with each other's projects and carry out job work jointly.
See also Grey Spider Press, Street of Crocodiles Printery, and the listing for Stern & Faye, Printers in the Press Ephemera Collection.
Located in Dallas, Texas. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
Roderick Stinehour established the Stinehour Press in 1953 at Lunenberg, Vermont. Stinehour is a noted printer and book designer whose work has garnered numerous awards, and the press became an important influence in the book arts. The press published books and journals on the history of printing and the graphic arts, and it helped to establish Dartmouth College’s annual Book Arts Workshop Today the press specializes in photography and art books and also provides a wide range of publishing services.
There are two books about the Stinehour Press in the collections of MU Libraries; click here for a list. Click here for a list of materials published by Stinehour Press and available at MU Libraries.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
Morris A.Gelfand founded the Stone House Press in 1978 in Roslyn, New York. John DePol, a noted artist and printmaker, created many wood engravings to illustrate Stone House Press books.
A list of the press's productions has been published under the title, Checklist: Stone House Press Books & Ephemera, 1978-1988, compilation and introduction by Catherine Tyler Brody and preface by G. Thomas Tanselle, New York Public Library and Roslyn, N.Y.: Stone House Press, 1989. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
K.K. Merker established the Stone Wall Press in 1957 after taking a typography class with Harry Duncan at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Merker became a noted designer, and the press made a name for itself by publishing the first books of several poets who went on to greater prominence. Merker's long career included a distinguished history of teaching and printing. He helped to establish the University of Iowa Center for the Book and enriched Iowa's highly regarded book arts program by founding the Windhover Press in 1967.
A list of books in MU Libraries about Merker can be found by clicking here. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See also Cummington Press and Windhover Press.
Stratford Press was founded in 1922 by E.F. Gleason in Cincinnati, Ohio. The press later moved to New York City. Among other things, the press printed books for the Limited Editions Club. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See also Limited Editions Club.
The imprint of Jules Faye, located in Sedro-Woolley, Washington.
See also Stern & Faye, Printers and the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
The private press of Thomas Perry Stricker was located in New York City.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
Emerson G. Wulling established the Sumac Press in 1932 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Wulling described his press as not literary or bibliographical, but personal. In addition to publishing literature and poetry that appealed to him, Wulling did job printing, provided he had control over the design. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
Chad Mikal Oness is the proprietor of the Sutton Hoo Press, which was founded in 1989 when he was a student at the Iowa Writer's Workshop in Iowa City. The press moved to Potomac, Maryland in 1991 and then to Columbia, Missouri in 1992, when Oness and his wife Elizabeth Oness completed doctoral studies in English. In 1997 the press moved to La Crosse, Wisconsin, and in 2001 it relocated to Winona, Minnesota. Both the Onesses are involved in work at the press. The primary mission of Sutton Hoo Press is to publish contemporary literature in handmade limited editions, and the books often feature interesting handmade papers and bindings. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
Alan Swallow was an American poet, publisher, and author. He established his private press in Gunnison, Colorado, and it later moved to Denver. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
Swamp Press was founded in 1976 by Ed Rayher, Jo Mish, Robert Rayher and Francis Pondolfino. The press specializes in chapbooks. Jo Mish left the press in the mid-1980s to found Serpent & Eagle Press.
See also the listing in the Press Ephemera Collection.
L. Walters, M.H.H. Walters, and M.P. Eyre founded the Swan Press in Chelsea, England, in 1926. Click here for a list of materials available at MU Libraries.
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