Frederic Goudy established the Village Press in Chicago in 1903 in order to promote his "Village" type – Goudy had designed this type for a clothing company, but it had never been cut and cast. Goudy originally ran the Press in partnership with Will Ransom, but Ransom dropped out when the Press relocated to Hingham in 1904. It relocated again in 1908, this time to New York. Most of the Press's equipment was destroyed in a fire in 1908, and after Goudy restarted the Press in 1911 it operated more as a hobby press than as a serious fine press. Village Press books were very heavily influenced by the design aesthetic of William Morris's Kelmscott Press.

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

• Goudy, Frederic William. A Note on Letter Design & the Village Types: A Specimen and Price List of Kennerley, Kennerley Italic & Forum Title. New York: 1915. Z232.G68 N6 1915
• Goudy, Frederic William. Bertha M. Goudy: Recollections by One Who Knew Her Best. Marlboro: 1939. Z232.G67 G7 1939
• Goudy, Frederic William. Evening at Deepdene. Marlborough: 1938. Z232.G68 A25 1938
• Morris, William. Printing: An Essay by William Morris & Emery Walker. Park Ridge: 1903. Z124 .M87 1903

Special Collections has the following secondary resources relating to the Village Press:

• Bertha S. Goudy, First Lady of Printing: Remembrances of the Distaff Side of the Village Press. New York: Distaff Side, 1958. Z232.G67 B4 1958
• Cary, Melbert. A Bibliography of the Village Press: 1903-1938. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1938. Z232.G68 C3 1938
• Goudy, Frederic William. A Note on Letter Design & the Village Types: A Specimen and Price List of Kennerley, Kennerley Italic & Forum Title. New York: Village Press and Letter Foundery, 1915. Z232.G68 N6 1915
• Goudy, Frederic William. The Story of the Village Type. New York: The Press of the Woolly Whale, 1933. Z232.G68 A3 1933
• Intimate Recollections of the Village Press. Utica: H. Coggeshall, 1938. Z232.G68 P6 1938