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1870–1957, American typographer and book designer, b. Lafayette, Ind. As printing adviser to Cambridge Univ. Press, Harvard Univ. Press, and to comm...
(f l´j r), 1857–1930, American industrialist and collector of Shakespeareana. His connection with Standard Oil companies, beginning in 1879, contin...
(kr stôf´ pläNt N´) (KEY) , 1514–89, printer. Plantin left his native France for Belgium because of religious persecution. In Antwerp his work, ...
(t l´b rt) (KEY) , 1844–1913, American inventor, b. Troy, Ohio. Lanston spent his youth on an Iowa farm and served in the military throughout the C...
(kr ng´kw st, kr n´–) (KEY) , 1919–92, American systematic botanist. He was the author of two introductory botanical textbooks, with Henry Allan...
( t´´tävyä´n d ´ p tr t´ch ) (KEY) , 1466–1539, Venetian printer. Petrucci was the inventor of printing music by movable metal type. His pa...