Albion press
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The Albion press is a model of early iron hand printing press, originally designed and manufactured in London by Richard Whittaker Cope around 1820.
1833 Albion Press at Printopia 2025, Auckland, New Zealand
The set type prior to inking
Laying a card directly onto the inked type (paper would normally be attached to the tympan by a frisket)
Covering the type with the hinged tympan
Nonesuch Press
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Nonesuch Press was a private press founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell, his second wife Vera Mendel, and their mutual friend David Garnett, co-owner of Birrell & Garnett's bookshop in Soho's
Albion press
…century, and thereafter chiefly for proofing, jobbing work and by private presses. Francis Meynell often used an Albion to proof pages of his designs for Nonesuch Press books, and printed some small books and ephemera using the press. Printers still predominantly using an Albion Press in the United Kingdom to publish…
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll Nonesuch Press, 1940, page 186