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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…

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,…

The Doves Bible shows a shift away from the ornate designs of the Kelmscott Press towards a simpler aesthetic in which composition and the elegance of the printing are brought to the fore. The Bible is printed in black with red and blue used…

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.

A "rhymed version of the Pentitential Psalms found in a manuscript of Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis, written at Gloucester about the year 1440, and now transcribed and edited by F.S. Ellis. Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 14, Upper…

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…

"Printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker at the Doves Press, No. I, The Terrace, Hammersmith, from the text of the late Dr. Scrivener's Paragraph Bible by permission of the Syndics of the University Press Cambridge. The verse had been…

This is a work of the Ashendene Press, which began printing in 1895 and continued until the first World War forced its closure in 1915. It was revived after the war in 1920 and continued printing until 1935. Two hundred and twenty five copies have…

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…