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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20000812
Author:Edmonds, Richard

The limited edition book from the private presses has always captivated bibliophiles and, of course, this is nothing new since private presses have existed for centuries.

Cardinal Richelieu had set up a press at his chateau in Touraine as early as 1640 and by 1757, Horace Walpole, dilettante, connoisseur and collector, had done the same thing at Strawberry Hill in Twickenham. After Walpole came Sir Egerton Brydges with the Lee Priory Press and, in 1874, the Daniel Press appeared at Frome in Somerset.

All these books carried limitation statements and they endowed a kind of ...

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