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(hwän pä´bl s) (KEY) , d. 1561?, printer in Spanish America. Pablos printed in Mexico City the first book known to have been printed in the Western...
1794–1872, English missionary, pioneer of printing in the Pacific. Sent in 1816 to Polynesia as a nonconformist missionary, he set up at Tahiti the ...
(gr l´y r, Fr. zhäN grôly ´ d s rvy r´ v kôNt´ däg z ´) (KEY) , 1479–1565, French bibliophile. Grolier served Francis I as government trea...
1797–1874, American book collector and philanthropist, b. Providence, R.I.; son of Nicholas Brown. In about 1840 he began collecting books printed b...
1851–1933, English master printer, typographic designer, and engraver. He was, along with William Morris and others, one of the moving spirits behin...
(d v n´ ) (KEY) , 1828–1914, American printer, b. Stamford, Conn. He learned his trade in the office of the Newburgh (N.Y.) Gazette and in 1848 en...