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Pied Oxen Printers
Hand-bound letterpress limited editions of poetry and other pursuits of David Sellers
Various of the printer’s maternal and paternal great grandfathers were involved in activities related to printing. Nathan Sellers (1751-1830) and David Sellers (1757-1813) manufactured the first paper moulds in North America. Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) established a proprietary press called “The Museum Press” in Philadelphia in 1804. Coleman Sellers (1781-1834) invented and manufactured early machinery for producing paper in volume. Oliver Wells (1774-1836) and his son Horace Wells (1797-1851) established the Cincinnati Type Foundry, supplying printers in the westward expansion with type, presses and printing equipment. Coleman Sellers II (1827-1907) authored The Lanston Type Machine: Expert Report (Philadelphia,1889), and in other ways played an instrumental role in production of the earliest commercially viable typecasting machines.