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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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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.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2023

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

J. Ben and Elizabeth Lieberman, Professor Lieberman’s parents, were leaders in the private press revival movement in America during the 1950s.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2013

Only a few years later, as if to provide an example of my newfound typographical interests, I became a private press publisher myself.

From The Guardian • Nov. 6, 2012

About 1648, schoolmaster as he was, he set up a private press.

From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Bastide, Charles

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