Private press - Definition and Overview

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