Dolmen Press
Industry | Books, publishing |
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Founded | 1951 |
Founder | Liam and Josephine Miller |
Headquarters | Dublin, Ireland |
Products | Books |
Dolmen Press was an Irish book publisher founded by Liam and Josephine Miller in 1951.[1]
History
In 1951 Liam acquired an Adana hand press from Blanaid and Cecil Ffrench Salkeld on loan[2] which they had used for their Gayfield Press, with a case of Bodoni type.[3] Some accounts state that the first publication of the press was 500 copies of a collection of four ballads, Travelling Tinkers, by Sigerson Clifford.[4] Others believe that the first publication printed was Thomas Kinsella’s The Starlit Eye.[2] The Press took printing jobs from publishers as well as theatres, art galleries, businesses and individuals.[4] The Press later printed using an Albion flat bed press and Caslon type.[3]
Founded to provide a publishing outlet for
The National Library of Ireland purchased the Dolmen Press collection of ephemera in 2009 from Jack Gamble of Emerald Isle Books.[4]
Book series
- The Irish Theatre Series[5]
- The Tower Series of Anglo-Irish Studies
Further reading
- Brady, Anne (2005). The Bookmaker. Bethesda, Maryland: Wild Apple Press.
- Maurice ed. (2001). The Dolmen Press: a Celebration. Dublin: Lilliput Press.
- Miller, Liam (1976). Dolmen XXV: an Illustrated Bibliography of the Dolmen Press, 1951-1976. Dublin: Dolmen Editions.
- Skelton, Robin, "Twentieth-Century Irish Literature and the Private Press Tradition: Dun Emer, Cuala, & Dolmen Presses 1902-1963" The Massachusetts Review, Volume 5, Number 2, Winter 1964, pp. 368–377.
References
- ^ Dolmen Press Collection, Wake Forest University: Z. Smith Reynolds Library
- ^ a b Brady, Deirdre (2014). "Modernist Presses and the Gayfield Press". Bibliologia. 9: 113–128.
- ^ ISSN 0021-1427.
- ^ a b c d Cruise, Lisa (2010), Dolmen Press Collection (PDF), National Library of Ireland
- ^ Irish Theatre Series (Dolmen Press) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
External links
- Dolmen Press Collection - Printing Block Series, digital collection at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University
- Dolmen Press collection at University of Victoria, Special Collections