Ashendene Press

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December 1894: The Ashendene Press was established by Charles...

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December 1894

The Ashendene Press was established by Charles Harry St John Hornby and Emery Walker at Bayford in Hertfordshire; Walker and Sydney Cockerell designed its Subiaco type in 1900.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
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1927: Ptolemy type, based on a font used by Leonard...

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1927

Ptolemy type, based on a font used by Leonard Holle at Ulm in 1482, was first used in printing the Ashendene Press 's Don Quixote.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Around late May 1956: Peter Foster and John Peters founded the...

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Around late May 1956

Peter Foster and John Peters founded the Vine Press at Foster's home in Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire.
Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
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The press is not to be confused with the Vine Press established by Victor Neuburg in 1919.

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