Printers' Devices Record | |||||
45 x 48 mm.
© Sangamon Press |
Printer/Publisher: Sangamon Press. Holt, Hallie H., 1890- | ||
Country: Illinois (U.S.) | City: Springfield | Date: 1955 | |
Keywords: birds, herons, sun, clouds | |||
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Device Designer: Holt, Hallie H., 1890- | |||
Device Reference: Weygand, J.L. Collection of pressmarks p. 72 Go to Page: 71 73 |
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Notes: "In his 64th year, and without previous printing experience, Hallie Holt took to printing a 226-page book on a 6x9 handpress. When that contrption showed little respect "for an old man's back," the book was completed on a 10x15 Reliable "power machine," and issued in 1955 as the first imprint of this press. Its device, drawn by the printer, is a heron, wading in the Sangamon river bottoms, supposedly near Abe Lincoln's New Salem, Illinois." © James Lamar Weygand | |||
Source: Weygand, James Lamar. A collection of pressmarks gathered from America's private presses and from others not so private. Nappanee, Ind., Private Press of the Indiana Kid, 1956. |
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Location: University of Florida | |||
URL: https://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/rarebook/devices/sangamon.htm |