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Born c.1400 • Mainz • Germany
Died October 30, 1466 • Paris • France
Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg
German printer
Robert Ballard
French printer
William Morris
British artist and author
William Caxton
William Caxton
English printer, translator, and publisher
Robert Maxwell, 1991.
Robert Maxwell
British publisher
Henri II Estienne
French scholar and printer
Aldus Manutius
Italian printer
Robert Foulis
Scottish printer
Title page to the Biblia, showing olive-tree motif adopted as Estienne family emblem, 1532
Robert I Estienne
French scholar and printer
Isaiah Thomas
American journalist
Daniel Berkeley Updike
American printer and publisher
Aldus Manutius the Younger
Italian printer
Pierre Attaingnant
French music printer
Edward Blount
English publisher
Wynkyn de Worde
English printer
Geoffroy Tory
French printer
Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
Johann Froben
Swiss printer
Axel Springer
German publisher
Johann Elert Bode
German astronomer