These books were grab-bag collections that printed the work of several artists; readers borrowed them from stores and then returned them like video rentals.
(The New York Times has printed the work of ProPublica and the Chicago News Cooperative, another new organization, and it recently put one of its neighborhood blogs, covering parts of Brooklyn, in the hands of the staff and students of the Graduate School of Journalism of the City University of New York).
The store, which specializes in French books, also had a publishing arm that during World War II printed the works of writers including Antoine de SainThexupéry ("The Little Prince") who had emigrated.
This group of 80 etchings by more than 40 artists from the collection of the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, N.Y., is a special treat: each is an error-free master impression, pulled in the Lower Manhattan shop of Henry Voigt, who printed the works of many artists associated with the movement.
Mr. Dangin retouches and prints the work of a dozen leading fashion photographers, including Michael Thompson, Mr. Meisel, Craig McDean, Steven Klein, Inez van Lamsweerde, Mario Sorrenti and David Sims.
One of her recent projects involved printing the work of an Armenian artist whose graphic novel she found in a secondhand shop.
But mostly Mr. Van Noten, who once walked an Indian hippie trail, traveled inside his mind, using as silk screen prints the work of the Marseille-based British photographer James Reeve, known for his abstracted urban landscapes with light piercing the velvet darkness of night.
By printing the works of Priestley and other of the Warrington tutors, Johnson also made himself known to an even larger network of Dissenting intellectuals, including those in the Lunar Society, which expanded his business further.
Millar ordered William Strahan to print the work on two of his printing presses to produce a total of 5,000 copies for the first run of the work (in comparison, only 3,500 copies of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling were printed for the first and second edition).
Willis arbitrarily refused to print the work of his sister Sara Willis ("Fanny Fern") after 1854, though she previously had contributed anonymous book reviews to the Home Journal.
As a result there appeared Dosparth Byrr ("A Short Rationale"), the earliest printed Welsh primer, the work of Gruffydd Robert (c. 1522 c. 1610), and several religious works, many of which were published on the Continent.
