Definition of "hand-press" [hand-press]

• A press worked by hand, in distinction from one moved by steam-power, etc. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "During the hand-press period, when type was reset each time a press was used, this term was synonymous with edition."
• "Striding clumsily but efficiently, like a laboring-man, she led him into the largest building, where Daylight saw a hand-press and all the paraphernalia on a small scale for the making of wine."
• "Between her and her hand-press on the mountain clearing and him ordering his wine in the hotel was a difference of seven dollars and seventy-eight cents."