private press

British  

noun

1. a printing establishment primarily run as a pastime

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Example Sentences

“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

The volume was printed at the private press of M. Horace Walpole at Strawberry-Hill, and the impression was limited to one hundred copies, of which thirty were sent to Paris.

From Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various