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For those interested in learning more about private press printing, the following list of publications and links covers general private press history, the history of the private press in Canada and letterpress printing technology, each under a separate heading.

Information on livres d'artiste can be found on the website of the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec: www2.biblinat.gouv.qc.ca/

The Private Press
William Morris
Canadian Private Press
Printing History / Technology

The Private Press

Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. 2nd ed., revised and enlarged. New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1983.

Ransom, Will. Private Presses and Their Books. New York: P.C. Duschnes, 1963

Smith, Shelagh. "Bookbinding Semantics." The Newsletter. vol. 19, no. 2 (2000) Toronto: The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild.

Devil's Artisan - A Journal of the Printing Arts. Erin, Ont.: The Porcupine's Quill, 1980-

Private Press Printing and the Book Arts: www.cbbag.ca/

William Morris

Peterson, William S., The Kelmscott Press: A History of William Morris's Typographical Adventure. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Ryskamp, Charles. Preface, William Morris and the Art of the Book. New York: Pierpont Public Library, 1976.

The Morris Society: www.morrissociety.org/

The Victorian Web : William Morris : http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/morris/morrisov.html

Canadian Private Press

Bradbury, Maureen. "Fine Printing by Canadian Private Presses, a Descriptive Listing of the Holdings of Special Collections: Part I, Presses outside Ontario." News from the Rare Book Room. Edmonton: D.E. Cameron Library, University of Alberta, 1978.

___. "Fine Printing by Canadian Private Presses, a Descriptive Listing of the Holdings of Special Collections: Part II, Presses of Ontario." News from the Rare Book Room. Edmonton: D.E. Cameron Library, University of Alberta, 1980.

Bringhurst, Robert. Ocean Paper Stone: The Catalogue of an Exhibition of Printed Objects, Which Chronicle More Than a Century of Literary Publishing in British Columbia. Vancouver: William Hoffer, 1984.

Dobson, Lyndsay. The Canadian Private Presses in Print. Grimsby: Lyndsay Dobson Books, 1983.

___.The Canadian Private Presses in Print - Supplement. Grimsby: Lyndsay Dobson Books, 1984.

Horne, Alan J., Guy Upjohn. Fine Printing: The Private Press in Canada. Toronto: The Canadian Book Binders and Book Artists Guild, 1995.

Kotin, David B., Marilyn Rueter. Reader, Lover of Books, Lover of Heaven. Willowdale: North York Public Library, 1978.

___. Reader, Lover of Books. Willowdale: North York Public Library, 1981.

McConnell, William C. "The Private Presses of British Columbia." Amphora I, The Alcuin Society's Quarterly Journal of Fine Printing and the Art of the Book. Vancouver: The Alcuin Society, 1967, pp.2-5

Recent Arrivals and Other News. Grimsby: Lyndsay Dobson Books, 1986-2000.

Rueter, Marylin. "The Private Press in Canada: A Brief Survey." In Sticks and Stones, Some aspects of Canadian Printing History. John Gibson, Laurie Lewis, eds. Toronto: Toronto Typographic Association, 1980, pp. 93-114

Rueter, William. Order Touched With Delight: Some Personal Observations on the Nature of the Private Press with an Account of the Aliquando Press. Toronto: The Aliquando Press, 1982.

Tayler, Anne H. Megan J. Nelson eds. From Hand to Hand: A Gathering of Book Arts in British Columbia. Vancouver: The Alcuin Society, 1986.

Tratt, Grace. Check List of Canadian Small Press, English Language. Halifax: Dalhousie University Library, 1974.

The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild: www.cbbag.ca/

Printing History / Technology

Dewalt, Bryan. Technology and Canadian Printing: A History From Lead Type to Lasers. Ottawa: The Museum of Science and Technology, 1995.

Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall. Encyclopedia of the Book. 2nd ed, with a new introduction by Donald Farren. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 1996.

Lewis, John. Anatomy of Printing: The Influences of Art and History on Its Design. London: Faber, 1970.

Moran, James. Printing Presses: History and Development from the Fifteenth Century to Modern Times. London: Faber and Faber; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1973.

Ryder, John. Printing for Pleasure. London: Bodley Head, 1976.

Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel. Printing on the Iron Hand Press. London: British Library 1998.

Schlesinger, Carl. The Biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler: Inventor of the Linotype. Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1989.

Steinberg, S. H. Five Hundred Years of Printing. Revised John Trevitt. London: British Library; New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1996.

Updike, Daniel Berkeley. Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use: A Study in Survivals. New York: Dover Publications, 1980.

Wood engraving: www.woodengravers.net/home.htm

Technology: www.letterspace.com/handpress/index.html