Hayloft Publishing Ltd. (Birmingham, printer/publisher, est. 1966)

Hayloft Press (later Hayloft Publishing Ltd.) was the private press established by David Wishart (1928–), a British mathematician and academic at the University of Birmingham, who developed an interest in printing through his editorial work for the Royal Statistical Society and, after acquiring a press in 1966, transformed a hobby into a small-scale one-man enterprise operating from a loft above his home, especially following his retirement in 1988; the press issued limited editions of books and pamphlets, typically in runs of 100 to 300 copies, often incorporating woodblock illustrations from Wishart’s collection or specially commissioned artwork, and produced a range of ephemera for private circulation, while a distinctive aspect of its activity was Wishart’s interest in typography and non-European scripts, reflected in his collection of Egyptian hieroglyphic, Greek, Cyrillic, and mathematical typefaces and his research into their use in printing.