printing housen.

1553 Inventory in J. Moran Wynkyn de Worde (1960) 38 Vnum le boxe full of stykes for the presses cum diuersis aliis rebus circa le pryntyng howse.

?a1563 W. Baldwin Beware Cat (1570) sig. A.v^v I was lodged in a Chamber harde by the Printing house.

1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 337 Euery one abideth in his owne office..as..is to bee seene in the printing house.

a1649 J. Winthrop Hist. New Eng. (1825) (modernized text) I. 289 A printing house was begun at Cambridge by one Daye, at the charge of Mr. Glover.

1662 G. Wither Paralellogrammaton 137 A part of the Copy was lost at the Printing-house, which could not be supplied without sending privately that which was left to the Author.

1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius No. 11 (1754) 51 Of all the sumptuous edifices which of late years have shot up in Oxford, and adorn'd the habitation of the muses, the new printing-house..strikes me with particular pleasure and veneration.

1743 B. Franklin Lett. 10 July in Papers (1960) II. 384 I have already three Printing-Houses in different Colonies.

1784 Edinburgh Advertiser 16 Jan. 48/2–3 Printed by and for James Donaldson, and sold at his Printing-house in the Castle-hill.

1830 Lady Morgan France 1829–30 II. 536 The armed entry of the military into the printing-houses, and the destruction of the machinery and types, were the first acts of ministerial despotism.

1855 I. C. Pray Mem. J. G. Bennett 41 From this post he was transferred to that of a proof-reader in the printing-house of Wells & Lilly.

a1910 ‘M. Twain’ Autobiography (1925) II. 285 Orion severed his connection with the printing-house in St. Louis.

1951 S. Jennett Making of Bks. iii. 48 In some printing houses one of the boxes in the case is set aside for the reception of defective or battered types.

1979 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 Oct. 44/4 The great printing houses became nodal points in a semi-secret network of cultural communications.

2004 Sun (Lowell, Mass.) (Nexis) 3 July The surveys..were mailed directly to 5,950 Dracut Water Supply District customers from a Pennsylvania printing house.

1785 Daily Universal Reg. 1 Jan. 2/1 Advertisements, Essays, real Articles of Intelligence, &c. to which great attention will be paid, will be taken in at the Office in Printing-house Square.]

1832 Let. in Times 18 Apr. 3/2 Indeed, if I coveted interviews with you, I should find more difficulty in obtaining entrance into the recesses of Printing-house-square, than into those of St. James's.

1850 R. Bell Ladder of Gold III. v. i. 9 It is of little consequence whether that fatal rent was made by a bolt launched from the hand of the Thunderer, in Printing-house-square, or by the inevitable action of other influences.

1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 25 Keep struggling; and..you will eventually turn up Printing House Square.

1938 H. Nicolson Diary 9 Sept. (1966) 358 Colin Coote..says that The Times leader urging the Czechs to surrender their fringes was written by Leo Kennedy and merely glanced at by Geoffrey Dawson. He is appalled by the lack of responsible guidance in Printing House Square.

1978 Times 18 Apr. 17/7 Surely you cannot be so short-sighted in Printing House Square as to..believe..as you grandly state in a recent leading article.

2003 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 24 Sept. 18 He will always be identified with the Guardian where he sought asylum from the Murdoch regime in Printing House Square.