Theodore Low De Vinne

Theodore Low De Vinne (1828–1914) was an American printer and historian of printing. Born in Stamford, Connecticut, he learned the trade as an apprentice, joined the New York printing house of Francis Hart and became its owner, renaming it the De Vinne Press. His firm printed The Century Magazine, St. Nicholas and The Century Dictionary and was known for exacting standards of typography. He helped found the Grolier Club and the Typothetae of New York, and wrote The Invention of Printing (1876), The Practice of Typography and studies of early printers and type design.