Dropmore Press

Kemsley acquired the type, paper-stock, printing equipment and press-man of the Corvinus Press, which closed in 1945, following the death of its owner Viscount Carlow in the previous year.

The Press was run by a committee of directors, who selected texts and oversaw the work of the press-man, A. H. Cardew.

In 1954 the Press was in severe financial difficulties and was offered to Fleming, who apparently agreed to buy it although the deal was never finalised.

Dropmore issued minor works by Evelyn Waugh (who complained about the inaccuracy of the text), by T. S. Eliot, and by the historian Sir Arthur Bryant.

It also published an important catalogue of The Royal Philatelic Collection by Sir John Wilson and Clarence Winchester in 1952.