HILLSIDE PRESS

Hillside Press is the imprint of Frank E. and Eleanor Irwin and is one of the six renaissance miniature book publishers in the U.S. They published their first book in Franklin, New Hampshire in 1961 before moving to Tilton, New Hampshire in 1970, then to Buffalo, New York in 1977. Using a hand-fed Golding Press, the Irwins printed from handset type and hand-bound their books. Frank Irwin wrote some of the books and even did some illustrations for them. They did everything by hand except make their own paper. After Frank Irwin died in 1980, Eleanor Irwin published fourteen additional miniature books, doing all of the printing and binding herself. (Bradbury 92)