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private press

British  

noun

  1. a printing establishment primarily run as a pastime

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“He was convinced that she was a lost private press folk artist from the ’60s or ’70s.”

From New York Times Apr. 30, 2024

This is a private press label that Pachuco Volume 1 is on: Billionaire Records.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 17, 2022

In a select, private press demo and interview event held following the game’s reveal, producer Yoshio Sakamoto offered an explanation.

From Slate Jun. 17, 2021

By that time, anyway, I'd grown bored of producing finely printed bits and pieces, for a private press publisher rarely gets offered more than that.

From The Guardian Nov. 6, 2012

BRIDGES, Robert.—Prometheus the Firegiver by Robert Bridges   Printed at the private press of H. Daniel Ffllow of Worcester College   Oxford 1883. 4to, half vellum, uncut edges.

From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various

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