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Alderbrink Press was a book publishing firm in Chicago run by Ralph Fletcher Seymour from 1897 until 1965. The Alderbrink Press maintained the traditions of the
Arts and Crafts Movement The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America. Initiat ...
. One early appreciation of its work said that it published "a variety of books in various styles, but all show great care in fitting together traits and materials which harmonize, and not a few deserve unreserved praise."J. Christian Bay, "Scarce and Beautiful Imprints of Chicago," in ''The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America'', vol. 14 (University of Chicago Press, 1920), 93
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Among the works that appeared under its imprint were
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's ''The Japanese Print'' (1912) and ''Experimenting with Human Lives'' (1923), and Alice Corbin's ''Red Earth: Poems of New Mexico'' (1920). It published Henry Blake Fuller's '' Bertram Cope's Year'' (1919).


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Fine press In printing and publishing, the fine press are printers and publishers publishing books and other printed matter of exceptional intrinsic quality and artistic taste, including both commercial and private presses. History As part of the Arts and ...


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* * * * {{cite book , editor-first=Susan F. , editor-last=Rossen , title=Inland Printers: The Fine Press Movement in Chicago, 1920-1945 , year=2003 , isbn=9781584561019 , location=Chicago , publisher= The Caxton Club Small press publishing companies Arts and Crafts movement History of Chicago Companies based in Chicago