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University of Kentucky: Margaret I. King Library. The King Library Press<\/a>, 179 Funkhouser Drive, Lexington 40506.<\/p>\n

Philip Gaskell (1956, p 173 (USA18)) states: \u201cModified Blaeu hose, head bolts, ratchet girth winch, without guide boards.\u201d He notes: \u201cImported\u00a0 from Europe in 1955 by Dr. Victor Hammer. Although it was sent to Lexington from Vienna, Austria, it is closely similar to I 1 and D 1 (qq.v.), especially in the \u2018Italian\u2019 pattern of the hose, and it may have come originally from Italy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frans Janssen states (2004, p 284): \u201cA press dated 1818, now in the Biblioteca Laurenziana in Florence, served as the model for two replicas: one in Eltville, Germany, one \u2013 built by Victor Hammer around 1925 \u2013 in the University of Kentucky, Lexington.\u201d Note 32 adds: \u201cGaskell\u2019s identifications are corrected by Conor Fahy.\u201d [See Fahy, 1999, p 14]<\/p>\n

Website<\/a>: \u201cIn 1958 the press was enabled by gifts from friends to acquire one of Victor Hammer\u2019s wooden common presses originally used at the Stamperia del Santuccio in Florence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Website<\/a>: \u201cFirst, we acquired the wooden press. To support the work of Victor Hammer in Lexington, a group of friends established a fund to purchase books for the library, and they also acquired the press. It was Victor\u2019s first press, built in Florence in 1927, and shipped over from Vienna after Victor came to Lexington. The model for it was the wooden press in the Laurentian Library in Florence, said by the curator to be the Raimondi Press. Ezio Pratese and two assistants constructed the press based on drawings Victor had made. They used parts of an old oak wine press, and had another craftsman turn on his lathe the steel spindle. With this press, Victor established the Stamperia del Santuccio in Florence.\u201d (1992)<\/p>\n

Aricle: Burton <\/span>Milward (1992). <\/span><\/p>\n

Video<\/a> \u2018King Library Press\u2019 (04:20).<\/p>\n