“A private press is, in the simplest terms, a small quantity of printing equipment housed in the home and used for the pleasure of the operator. The most frequent incentive is enjoyment of something to play with, the do-it-myself instinct. Yet there are other stimuli: authors have set out to give form and substance to their writings; designers have been impelled to record their ingenuity in the use of type and decoration; artists have used books as vehicles for their drawings or engravings. Whatever the purpose, a private press may be defined as the expression, by means of craftsmanship, of a personal ideal conceived in freedom and maintained in independence.”
                                                                                                — Will Ransom 1955