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Bloomington: Indiana University: Lilly Library
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Description:
Location: The Lilly Library
1200 East Seventh Street, Bloomington, Indiana, 47405
Year: 1979
Catalogue number: -
Builder: -
Press dimensions: -
Platen dimensions: -
Platen material: Wood
Spindle material: Metal
Hose type: Blaeu hose
One pull/two pull: Two
Notes:
The hand printing press is a modern replica, built on the plan of the “new fashioned” press described in Joseph Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises (London, 1683). A full-scale working model, it is used for class demonstrations.
It is known as the King’s Head Press because of the portrait of Charles II on the head.
Literature:
Photographs: medium size. Clicking enlarges in new window.
Photo: Lilly library [Source]
Photo: Lilly library [Source]
Photo: Unknown.
Photo: Lilly library [Source]
Photo: Lilly library [Source]
Photo: Lilly library [Source]