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Work History:  Scenic Designer, New York City Opera; television scenery, CBS-TV, New York; Book Designer, Harcourt Brace, New York.

Education:  A.B. Harvard, 1951; M.F.A. Yale, 1954

Other Interests/Hobbies: Writing on printing history; edited the Newsletter of the American Printing History Association, 1986-1990; Author, American Iron Hand Presses; edited 2nd edition of Annenberg's American Type Foundries and their Catalogs; edited Gabriel Rummonds Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress; Woodworking, collecting American and British 19th-century type specimen books, and collecting 19th-century type.

Group Memberships, if any: APA #484; Founding member, American Printing History Association

Email Address: sos22@optonline.net

Birth Date or Birth Year: February 24, 1930
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Stephen O. Saxe
Fort-Hill Press
White Plains, New York
 
[Written: October 2006]

How I Got Involved in Letterpress Printing:  I've been interested in printing from age 10. I finally bought a tabletop press in 1966.

Presses & Equipment:  Golding Improved Pearl; Vandercook SP-15; C&P Pilot; Foolscap Folio Albion; and about 20 small "hobby" presses.
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