Private printing
Private printing is a form of self-publishing and describes a printed work that is usually published in small editions, is not commercially available and is usually intended from the outset for a clearly addressed and thus limited group of users. If it is a question of publications that are subject to censorship in their country or that are not sold through bookshops for other reasons, one speaks of gray literature , in Russian of samizdat .
The client for a private print can be a private person , a prince, a company, an association or a similar institution. The books are often carefully and lavishly furnished and therefore also of interest to bibliophile collectors. For example, the imprint of a book by Georg Büchner's Woyzeck with illustrations by Erik Richter from 1925 says: “This private print was made in December 1925 as a Christmas present only for the friends of the Graphische Kunstanstalt Ganymed GmbH and the Gebr. Mann book printing company. The drawings are by Erik Richter, typesetting and printing by Gebr. Mann, the collotype by Ganymed, all in Berlin. The edition was 250 copies. "
On the other hand, the term “private printing” for self-published memoirs or a family history is seldom or not used at all , even if such a printed work is also not intended for the book trade, but only privately for close relatives and friends.
Examples
see gray literature # examples
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Duden : Privatdruck, der , available online at duden.de.
- ^ Maria Lanckorońska: A princely private print. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. No. 89, November 5, 1968, pp. 2941-2946.
- ↑ This was also to be found in several second-hand book advertisements in July 2015.