"For My Own Pleasure"                            27

Overbrook Press was a vehicle for Akschul's interest in the art of
printing, and it also served other aspects of his life: his family, his
support of his college and clubs, and his interest in chess, politics,
and literature. Greeting cards, bookplates, invitations, dinner pro-
 

Frank Altschul, toundcr and proprietor ot
0\'crbrook Press (Blackstone Studio.s)

grams, and memorial booklets for family and friends issued regu¬
larly from the press. When Akschul's sister Edith was the subject of
the society page, the article was reprinted by the press, Edith was
married to New York State Governor Herbert H. Lehman, and
Akschul's brother-in-law was the author or subject of nearly a
dozen Overbrook titles. Other members of these families became