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c.1421–91, English printer, the first to print books in English. He served apprenticeship as a mercer and from 1463 to 1469 was at Bruges as governo...
(äNtwän´ äl ksäN´dr bärby ´) (KEY) , 1765–1825, French bibliographer and government librarian. Barbier was one of a committee appointed to ...
(fräNswä´ d d ´) (KEY) , 1689–1757, Parisian printer. The son of a printer, Denis Didot, he was the first of the family to win fame in his craft...
(jämbät-t ´stä b d ´n ) (KEY) , 1740–1813, Italian printer b. Piedmont. He was the son of a printer and worked for a time at the press of the V...
(j ´ t) (KEY) , 1816–68, American librarian, b. Lebanon, Maine. Jewett prepared his first catalog of books as librarian of Andover Theological Semi...
(pän t´s ) (KEY) , 1797–1879, British librarian, b. Italy. A political exile, Panizzi settled in England in 1823 and was naturalized in 1832. He w...