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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

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

A smooth post-soft-rock guitar and synthesizer album considered a classic by collectors of private press recordings, “L’Amour” has a beguiling back story.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2014

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

The productions of his press are very good examples of printing, and are far above any of the other private press work of the eighteenth century.

From A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)

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