Private Press Collection

The Private Press collection includes items from more than 1,000 presses in Canada, Great Britain, and the United States. This collection has been developed as a representative collection, with intensive coverage of selected presses, such as Hague & Gill, St. Dominic's Press, Nonesuch Press, and Golden Cockerel Press, to provide scope for in-depth study of the history and development of these particular presses. A sample selection from a wide range of other private presses gives an overview of the private press movement in the twentieth century.

This large and diverse collection provides support for other collections and subject areas, such as the Eric Gill collection, English, American, and Canadian literature, Fine Arts, Women's Studies, and Dance. The Hogarth Press collection, for example, includes a number of items from the period during which Virginia Woolf was closely associated with the press, while the Trianon Press collection includes numerous facsimiles of the works of William Blake.

Special Collections

Private Press Collection