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and a loose collective of U.K. based small press creators whose work is sold and displayed on the weekly stall. London
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larger one-day events that took up an additional 1,000 square feet (93 m) of Camden Lock Market such as No
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who operated on a small scale, often with a manual printing press in-house. They produced limited print-runs of publications that larger, more commercially inclined publishers would reject.
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in London in 1981. It later developed into an anthology, a mail order service, and a news sheet, lasting in various forms until 1990. Artists associated with this scene included
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British small press activity, including the now-online
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