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...Author. More interested in mono type and printer's ink than vacuum-cleaners and Patou models, Virginia Woolf ? and her husband ? set up a small hand press in 1912, and printed limited editions of choice books, her own among them. Since then, the Hogarth Press has grown, through success, to a full-fledged publishing house with appropriate offices near the British Museum...
Others on display include the "Royal Book," printed by William Caxton, the first English printer: the first English edition of "King Arthur and the Round Table," printed in 1557: and the Countess of Pembroke's own copy of Sir Philip Sidney's "Arcadia." Original manuscripts of Burns, Dickens, Lamb, and Stevenson, complete the collection...
...printer and cause him to print a quantity of official-looking tickets for a Hoover or a Smith picnic, or both, at such-and-such amusement resorts on such-and-such days...
...month, some say for three months, he had been at work on it. Two weeks before delivery he sent it to a printer, in greatest confidence. Back it came in long strips of type. He showed it first to William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan of New York. He showed it to a few others. And again and again he read it all through to himself, in his Palo Alto study. Safe to say, that, years hence, he will associate that speech far more closely with that room than with the stadium in which it was for the last time voiced...
...voice them. They could not fail to see more evidences of vice in the clergyman's record than in the candidate's and they were forced to acknowledge a characterization of their lamentable spokesman which was offered by the Chicago Tribune ". . . narrow-minded, pompous bigot . . . gluttonous for printer's ink, publicity and the front page. . . . Even those who have heard him do not know whether he is Roach Straton or Straton Roach...