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| Dr. Paul Nash of the Bodleian Library and Strawberry Press |
The Bodleian Library's printing presses and equipment are now housed at The Story Museum in Pembroke Street, Oxford, where classes and workshops areheld for families, beginners and experienced printers. The Bodleian Hand-Printing Workshop currently contains four Albion presses of varioussizes, a large columbian, an eighteenth-century wooden "common" press, several Adanas, and a good range of type, including large founts of Caslon and Bell. The Room has recently been given a Vandercook proof press by the family of the late Vivian Ridler, quondam Printer to the University. Teaching covers both the history and practice of printing in the hand-press period (roughly 1450-1825) and practical letterpress printing today, as a tool for producing prints, broadsheets and small books.
Further details of classes and workshops may be found at the Story Museum's website at
