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1880–1956, American type designer, calligrapher, and book designer, b. Martinsville, Ohio. He attained prominence as an illustrator and commercial a...
1615–1702, early American printer. He established himself at Cambridge, Mass., in 1649, using a press owned by Henry Dunster, the first president of...
(än´t n k ´b r´´gûr) (KEY) , c.1445–1513, German printer. He established in 1470 the first printery in Nuremberg. In 1483 he produced a German...
1879–1938, American biologist, b. Du Quoin, Ill., grad. Univ. of Illinois (B.S., 1900; Ph.D., 1907). He served the agricultural experiment stations ...
1838–1917, English bibliographer and antiquarian, a founder of the Early English Text Society and of the Index Society. Wheatley’s work on the ind...
1901–72, American librarian, b. Johannesburg, South Africa. After studying philosophy at Harvard, Clapp worked for the Library of Congress (1922–5...