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Grabhorn Press, which he established in 1920 with his brother, Edwin. After
Grabhorn's death in 1973, Hoyem founded the Arion Press with the equipment and type collection of the Grabhorns, including rare types and outstanding faces from European foundries destroyed in World War II. Hoyem took the press's name from the Greek poet of legend who was saved by a dolphin. From 1974 to 2018, he published 113 limited-edition books under the Arion Press imprint, including such monumental undertakings as Melville's
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in 1915, thereby creating a workshop where all of the traditional crafts of bookmaking are practiced under one roof, from making type out of molten lead, to letterpress printing, to binding books by hand. Printing museum director Justin Knopp wrote from Oxford, England âThere is now no other business
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writers. Hoyem designed books for trade publishers, including a series of
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Hoyemâs Arion Press books are in the collections of museums and libraries including The New York Public
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Martica Sawin said âThe collaboration among Arion Press, M & H Type, and the Grabhorn Institute is a model for preserving historic manufacturing equipment, keeping alive disappearing crafts, and printing beautiful artifactsâall in one enterprise."
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reported that "From melting the lead, to proofreading, to physically lifting 40-pound frames of type, the consensus of Andrew Hoyem, as publisher of the Arion Press, and his small crew of eight craftspeople, is that a hand-wrought Bible is intrinsically valuableâ.
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In 2000 Hoyem's operation was threatened by eviction, requiring the logistical challenge and expense of moving over 140 tons of equipment and metal type to a suitable new facility. In response, Hoyem founded the nonprofit
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were included among the 100 great books of the 20th century in âA Century of Artist Booksâ at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1994, and âA Century for the
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to preserve and continue the operation of one of the last integrated facilities for typefounding, letterpress printing, and bookbinding. Hoyem retrofitted a 1924 steam plant in the
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