Folio of private presses.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Antin, Charles, compiler, author of foreword.

Serendipity Press (New York, N.Y.), publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printing--Specimens.

Printing.

Private presses.

private presses.

Genre:

Specimens.

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

1 case ([4] pages, 36 pieces : illustrations) ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Serendipity Press, 1978.

Summary:

Contributors: Dwight Agner, Press of the Nightowl; Frank J. Anderson, Kitemaug Press; H. Richard Archer, Hippogryph Press; Leonard F. Bahr, Adagio Press; Wayne Batcheler, New Bottles Press; G. Brender à Brandis, Brandstead Press; John Cumming, Private Press of John Cumming; David Chambers, Cuckoo Hill Press; Lincoln Diamant, Pondside Press; Harry Duncan, Cummington Press; Paul Hayden Duensing, Private Press of Paul Hayden Duensing; Vance Gerry, Weather Bird Press; Arthur Graham, Polyglot Press; Ronald Gordon, Oliphant Press; James Gibbs, Cherry Pit Press; Sherwood and Katherine [i.e. Katharine] Grover, Grace Hoper Press; Philip Grushkin, Capgee Press; August Heckscher, Printing Office at High Loft; Richard L. Hopkins, Hill & Dale Press; Bill Jackson, Four Ducks Press; Robert M. Jones, Glad Hand Press; Peter Koch, Blackstone [i.e. Black Stone] Press; J. Ben Lieberman, Herity Press; Roy Lewis, Keepsake Press; Philip Metzger, Crabgrass Press; Henry Morris, Bird & Bull Press; Leigh McLellan, Meadow Press; John Randle, Whittington Press; Cliff and Lois Rather, Rather Press; William Rueter, Aliquando Press; Henry Schniewind, Four Winds Press; Martin and Penny Speckter, Four Penny Press; T. and Pat Taylor, Out of Sorts Press; Emerson G. Wulling, Sumac Press; Lili and Eric [i.e. Erich] Wronker, Ron Press; James Yarnell, Oak Park Press.

Contents:

A credo

Kitemaug Press

Credo of the hippogryph

Adagio

Benjamin Franklin on typography : exerpted from a letter from that gentleman to Noah Webster

Lines for the crocuses : poem & wood engraving / by G. Brender à Brandis

The private press of John Cumming : a catalog

On printing by hand / David Chambers

Portrait of the printer as a young printer

The Constantinopolitan Creed

Some thoughts on private typefounding

Reading & printing : and some notes on the Weather Bird Press / by Vance Gerry

Polyglot Press

The Oliphant Press

Boast book

Whence the Grace Hoper Press

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A brief note on book collecting / by Philip Hofer

The fibre of a lost America / by Richard L. Hopkins

The Four Ducks Press credo: "Our lives are frittered away with details, simplify, simplify!

In praise of the picture makers / Robert M. Jones

Printing a book for the pleasure of its publication

The purposes of the Herity Press of Elizabeth and Ben Lieberman

A very personal note on the relationship between a private press and publishing / by Roy Lewis

A private joy

Practice makes perfect?

Meadow Press, Iowa City, Iowa

The Whittington Press : a short description & bibliography, 1972-1977

A rather private press

Order touched with delight / written by William Rueter

A selection of borders, cuts and fleurons at the Four Winds Press

Confessions of an addict

Therapy or mania

Private presses in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa / by Emerson G. Wulling

On collecting printing medals

A sampler consisting of title pages and representative text pages from books-in-work at the Oak Park Press.

Notes:

A collection of folders or pamphlets, with varying content, contributed by American, British, and Canadian private presses; some dated 1977.

Assembled, with a foreword, by Charles Antin.

Two hundred sets appear to have been made.

Also referred to as Charles Antin's Private press keepsake.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy imperfect: 3 pieces wanting.

OCLC:

5076355