First edition. Issued as a title inThe British Library Studies in the History of the Book series. A selection of 29 essays by Roderick Cave, several of which have not before been published. The book starts with articles that survey the broad field from a historical perspective, and includes several studies based on interviews with those who worked at the Boars Head, Gregynog and Golden Cockerel Presses in the years between the world wars. Other individual presses discussed range from those of the Marquis de Bercy, an amateur printer of the French Revolution, through modern American, Australilan and British private presses, to that operated by Count Potocki de Montalk, who claimed to be Wladislas V, King of Poland. The volume also includes articles on a Victorian book collectors' club- the Philobiblon Society- and on high quality commercial printing at the Folio Society and the Grey Wall Press. Roderick Cave is author of The Private Press 1971, revised 1983 , a standard history in the field, and the recently published History of The Golden Cockerel Press 1920-1960with Sarah Manson The British Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2002 . Illustrated throughout, including a photograph of Will Ransom at case in his printing shop, c.1922, as frontispiece. xii, 267+ 1 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo..

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