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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Date: 20030101
Author:MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER
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are distinguished by aims that are aesthetic rather than commercial and by printing for the gratification of their owners rather than to order. Many have been set up since the 17th cent. by amateurs of books or printing, such as that of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill (1757–97). At the end of the 19th cent. presses of this kind were intended as a protest against the low artistic standards and degradation of labour in the printing trade. W. Morris set up the Kelmscott Press (1891–8) with this object. The Cuala Press was founded in Ireland in 1902. The ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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