Record ID:
35034352 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 79089477
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1828-12-25
  • Stamford (Conn.)
Death:
  • 1914-02-16
Occupations:
  • Printers Type designers
Used for:
  • De Vinne, Theo. L. (Theodore Low), 1828-1914
  • Vinne, Theodore Low de, 1828-1914
See also:
Notes:
  • His The state of the trade, 1872 t.p. (Theo. L. De Vinne)
  • Koenig, M. De Vinne and the De Vinne Press. The library quarterly, Volume 41, number 1 (January 1970) abstract (Theodore Low De Vinne (1828-1914); apprenticed to the printer of the Newburgh (New York) Gazette at the age of fourteen; in 1850 he joined the Francis Hart Company as ajourneyman compositor and rose to partnership in 1858; after the death of Hart, De Vinne purchased Francis Hart & Company in 1883 and it became Theodore L. De Vinne and Company until his retirement from direct control in 1908. At this time the company took the corporate name of the De Vinne Press, surviving as such until 1923; De Vinne pioneered in developing typographic style, as a type designer, a historian of printing and printing types, an adapter of new technology to fine printing, and an educator of the printing trade) page 1 (Theodore Low De Vinne was born in Stammford, Connecticut on Christmas Day 1828) page 4 (In his eighty-sixth year, on Monday, February 16, 1914, Theodore Low De Vinne died)
  • MWA/NAIP files (hdg.: De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914; usage: Theodore Low De Vinne; Theodore L. De Vinne; Theo. L. De Vinne; note: organizer, along with Peter C. Baker, of Typothetae, an association of master (employing) printers)
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)256109
  • abv00114331
  • 000000034527
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC MWA PSt
Authentication code:
  • kin