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Theodore Low De Vinne
American printer (b. Stamford, CT, 1828, d. 1914). In 1848, he entered the shop of Francis Hart in New York City, where he became owner after Hart's death in 1877. It continued as Theo. L. De Vinne&Company until 1908, when it was incorporated as the De Vinne Press. De Vinne was the best-known American printer of his day. He was neither a type designer nor a type cutter. His books include The Invention of Printing (1876), Specimens of black-letter in stock at the De Vinne Press, no. 12 Lafayette Place, New-York City (1887; samples include Great Primer Black No. 2, Seven Line Pica Moxon's Outline Black, and Canon Black No. 1 with five line capitals), The roman and italic printing types in the printing house of Theodore L. De Vinne&co (1891, De Vinne Press, New York), The practice of typography: a treatise on the processes of type-making, the point system, the names, sizes, styles and prices of plain printing types (4 vol., 1900-1904, Century Co., New York: Amazon link), Types of the De Vinne press; specimens for the use of compositors, proofreaders and publishers (1907), and Notable Printers of Italy during the Fifteenth Century (1910). Biography by Nicholas Fabian. Bio at Britannica. Bio at Infoplease. His type styles were revived in 2010 by Jeff Levine as Publication JNL. Typophile Chapbook: Theodore Low De Vinne; was published by Carl Purington Rollins. View digital typefaces based on De Vinne's work.
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