Winter 2007/8 - Catalogue of the Private Presses (35)
(Joshua Heller Rare Books) Catalogue 35 - Winter 2007/8. In introducing our new catalogue, which features some old friends in the Private Press world, we are reminded of the question of what is a Private Press? We have Jerry Kelly to thank for his contribution to the analysis and defininition of this question in the current issue of Parenthesis, No. 13, August 2007. In addition, he quotes John Carter’s excellent and succinct explanation of the spirit of a Private Press:
“ … the fundamental principle of private press printing: the principle that, whether or not a press has to pay its way, the printer is more interested in making a good book than a fat profit. He prints what he likes, how he likes, not what someone else has paid him to print. If now and then he produces something more apt for looking at and handling than for the mundane purpose of reading, remember he is concerned as much with his own pleasure and education as with yours.”
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