Private press
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Private press is a term used in the field of book collecting to describe a printing press operated as a personal hobby, rather than as a purely commercial venture.
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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
- Roycroft Press set up by Elbert Hubbard in 1895