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
The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll Nonesuch Press, 1940, page 186
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.
Nonesuch Press
…these formed part of the press's Cygnet impression). Nonesuch was unusual among private presses in that it used a small hand press to design books (an Albion press), but had them printed by commercial printers: for example, the Birmingham-based Kynoch Press. The purpose of this method was to produce book designs…
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