Private press

Private Press is a term used in the field of book collecting to describe a printing press operated as a personal enthusiasm, rather than as a purely commercial venture.

Notable private presses

Ad insigne pinus in Augsburg from 1594 to 1619
Strawberry Hill Press - the Officina Arbuteana - of Horace Walpole
The Press of Gaetano Polidori
Daniel Press in Oxford from 1874 to 1903
Kelmscott Press set up by William Morris in 1891

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