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private press

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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Eritrea is the only African country without privately owned media, having shut down its private press in 2001 under the pretext of "national security".

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

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Since the 1990s, he’s been a collector of rare, obscure and private press records sourced from area thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets.

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

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Then, after a little night Googling, I discovered that the bulk of the material was originally published — bound in antique silk, naturally — by Cameron’s private press, Shrinking Violet.

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