Theodore Low De Vinne , 1828-1914, American printer, b. Stamford, Conn. He learned his trade in the office of the Newburgh (N.Y.) Gazette and in 1848 entered the shop of Francis Hart in New York City. In 1858 he was made a junior partner, and after Hart's death in 1877 De Vinne became owner of the business. It continued as Theo. L. De Vinne & Company until 1908, when it was incorporated as the De Vinne Press. De Vinne became the best-known American printer of his day and did much by his writings and by his example of workmanship to advance the cause of good printing. He printed the Century Magazine and the Century Dictionary, both of them considered fine specimens of the art in that period. He also printed many of the Grolier Club books. He was a close student of types and did much to make American printers type conscious. De Vinne helped to bring reproduction and illustration processes to new standards of excellence. His numerous books include The Invention of Printing (1876), The Practice of Typography (4 vol., 1900-1904), and Notable Printers of Italy during the Fifteenth Century (1910).
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Catharine Sedgwick and the circles of New York.(Biography)
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers; 6/1/2006; Avallone, Charlene; 10077 words;
... ruling elite. She lived with Frances Watson, her sister, and Frances's publisher husband and circulated with her brother Theodore, a law student, who was very ambitious that his sister should be an adept in the polite arts (Sedgwick, Autobiography 92 ... sensationalism of the city-mysteries tradition and helped to ...
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APHA Event Considers How Technologies Can Clarify Ancient Texts.
Printing News; 11/27/2000; Tichenor, Irene; 1197 words;
... 4922 Grand Central Station, New York, N.Y. 10163. Irene Tichenor is president of APHA. She holds an MLS and a PhD in American History, both from Columbia University. She is at work on a biography of scholar-printer Theodore Low De Vinne (1828-1914).
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Catharine Sedgwick and the Circles of New York
Legacy; 1/1/2006; Avallone, Charlene; 9192 words;
... ruling elite. She lived with Frances Watson, her sister, and Frances's publisher husband and circulated with her brother Theodore, a law student, who "was very ambitious that his sister should be an adept in the polite arts" (Sedgwick, "Autobiography ... sensationalism of the city-mysteries tradition and helped to ...
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