The accumulation of a typographic library is not as easy an accomplishment as might be imagined at first thought. Each year sees a number of additions to the list of books concerned with printers’ types and their use, but unfortunately few managed to survive beyond the small first edition. One of the reasons is undoubtedly [...]

Possibly the most disagreeable task faced by any printer or typesetter is the production of a new typesetting book. It’s production is such a chore that is put off until even the copies of the old book in the plant are dog-earred and marked-up beyond recognition, and the customers’ demands become incessant and perhaps incoherent. [...]

On this day in the year 1900, the most respected printer in America, the scholarly Theodore Low De Vinne, wrote a letter to his employees, thanking them for the Testimonial Dinner which they had tendered Mrs. De Vinne and himself upon the occasion of their fiftieth wedding anniversary and his own seventy-second birthday, on December [...]

On this day in 1828 was born the first of America’s great scholar-printers, Theodore L. De Vinne, in Stamford, Connecticut. De Vinne’s father, a Methodist minister, had six sons, four of whom became printers. The other two became bookbinders. De Vinne first visited a printing office when he was seven years of age, the occasion [...]

The renowned Theodore L. De Vinne was asked to state his views on the changing technology of the printing industry during the 19th century. In a broadly reasoned statement De Vinne expressed on this day in 1889 his attitude toward what critics were then calling the destructive forces which endangered the future of the industry. [...]