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Five Trees Press was founded in San Francisco in 1973 by Kathleen Walkup, Jaime Robles, and Cheryl Miller. The press focused on printing the work of women poets both famous and unknown.The colophon states that "[t]his book was designed and printed by…

Carolee Campbell's interest in the book arts grew from her work as a photographer, first binding her photographs into books and then studying papermaking, bookbinding, and letterpress printing.

Martha Jane Bissell was a highly trained bookbinder when she married Robert Grabhorn in 1932, and following their marriage she took up printing. In 1937 she founded the Jumbo Press, which mainly printed ephemera. In 1938 she co-founded the Colt…

In 1966, the year after the closure of the Grabhorn Press, Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem founded the Grabhorn-Hoyem Press; following Grabhorn's death, Hoyem renamed it the Arion Press. It publishes limited edition letterpress books, often with…

Printed by Mills College to honor the centenary of William Morris's birth. The text is part of a lecture entitled The Decorative Arts that Morris delivered in 1877 in support of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, an organization he…

Lawton Kennedy, with his younger brother, Alfred, developed an interest in printing at an early age. He started working full time as a teenager and soon become recognized as an exceptional pressman. He worked for several well-known Bay Area printers…

In A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press, he wrote, "By instinct rather than by conscious thinking it over, I began by getting myself a fount of Roman type. And here what I wanted was letter pure in form; severe,…

One of five copies printed by the Studio Press, Edwin Grabhorn's press in Indianapolis. As with Nash's publication of Cobden-Sanderson's Ideal Book, the Studio Press uses text as well as design and quality to signal its place in the fine press…

In 1920, Edwin and Robert Grabhorn moved to San Francisco and founded the Grabhorn Press. By choosing Morris's text as one of the first products of the new press, they announced to their new home exactly what to expect from their press: carefully set…

Printed in commemoration of the centenary of the birth (March 24, 1834) of William Morris by The Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California for distribution to members of the Club. 350 copies.