Established in 1931 by Saul and Lillian Marks, the Plantin Press produced high quality printing in the tradition of such British fine presses as Kelmscott and Doves. In order to maintain direct control over the work of the Press, the Marks deliberately avoided expanding the firm, though like many American fine presses (and a few British ones) they did undertake printing for other publishers as well as producing their own books.

Special Collections has the following items printed at or published by the Plantin Press:

• Adler, Elmer. An Informal Talk by Elmer Adler at the University of Kansas, April 17, 1953. Lawrence: 1953. 010 Ad59i
• Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de. The Three-Cornered Hat: The True History of an Affair Current in Certain Tales and Ballads, Here Written down As & How It Befell. Los Angeles: 1959. PQ6502.S7 E5 1959b
• Browning, Robert. The Ring and the Book. New York: 1949. PR4219.A2 D6 1949
• Confucius. The Analects of Confucius. Los Angeles: 1970. PL2478 .L3 1970
• France, Anatole. The Revolt of the Angels. New York: 1953. PQ2254 .R513 1953
• Jackson, Helen Hunt. Ramona: A Story. Los Angeles: 1959. PS2107 .R3 1959
• Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut and Charles McCurry. Two Essays on the Decretum of Gratian. Los Angeles: 1971. Z232.S36 L42
• Lingenfelter, Richard E. Presses of the Pacific Islands, 1817-1867: A History of the First Half Century of Printing in the Pacific Islands. Los Angeles: 1967. Z221 .L5 1967
• Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta. Etruscan Terracotta Warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: 1937. NB159.E7 R5 1937
• Schedel, Hartmann. Sarmatia, the Early Polish Kingdom: From the Original Nuremberg Chronicle, Printed by Anton Koberger in 1493. Los Angeles: 1976. DK4190 .S313 1976
• Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey. New York: 1957. PR5488 .T8 1957
• Verne, Jules. Around the World in Eighty Days. Los Angeles: 1962. PQ2469.T7 E56
• Verne, Jules. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. Los Angeles: 1956. PQ2469 .V53 1956
• Weber, Francis. El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles: An Inquiry into Early Appellations. Los Angeles: 1968. F869.L8 W37
• Willoughby, Edwin. The Making of the King James Bible: A Monograph with Comparisons from the Bishops Bible and the Manuscript Annotations of 1602, with an Original Leaf from the Great “She” Bible of 1611. Los Angeles: 1956. BS186 .W55 1956
• Wister, Owen. The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains. Los Angeles: 1951. PS3345 .V5 1951