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1819–86, American bookdealer and bibliographer, b. Barnet, Vt. After attending college and law school, Stevens went to Europe as agent for several i...
(b r´ ) (KEY) , 1287–1345, English bibliophile and bishop of Durham. His name was Aungerville, but he was called Bury from his birthplace, Bury St....
( ty n´ dôl ´) (KEY) , 1509–46, French scholar, painter, and printer of Lyons. He wrote treatises on French grammar, poems, a short history of Fr...
1798–1834, Scottish botanist. He made several journeys in North America between 1823 and 1834 to study American plants and sent to Scotland more tha...
1800–1883, and Robert Chambers, 1802–71, Scottish authors and publishers. Their firm of W. and R. Chambers is best known for Chambers’s Edinburg...
d wôrd, wûrd) (KEY) , d. 1535, English printer, whose original name was Jan van Wynkyn. He was born at Wörth in Alsace and probably accompanied Wi...