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Article: Marcella D. Genz. A History of the Eragny Press, 1894-1914.(Book Review)
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- Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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Marcella D. Genz. A History of the Eragny Press, 1894-1914. New Castle, Del. and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2004. 240 pp.; $85.00 (US) / 40.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1594561076 (US); 071234862X (UK).
The Eragny Press, founded by Lucien Pissarro (eldest son of the French Impressionist painter) in London, in 1894, is the smallest of the important presses that together constitute the revivalist printing movement in Britain. The Press published only 32 books over a 20-year period, half the number produced by the Kelmscott Press in seven years (44). Perhaps because of this modest output, combined with the fact that it printed small editions in ...