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Born April 20, 1707 • Glasgow • Scotland • (Born on this day)
Died June 2, 1776 (aged 69) • Edinburgh • Scotland
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
Isaiah Thomas
American journalist
Title page to the Biblia, showing olive-tree motif adopted as Estienne family emblem, 1532
Robert I Estienne
French scholar and printer
Daniel Berkeley Updike
American printer and publisher
Johann Fust
German printer
Aldus Manutius the Younger
Italian printer
Edward Blount
English publisher
Wynkyn de Worde
English printer
Geoffroy Tory
French printer
Alexander MacMillan
Scottish publisher
Daniel MacMillan
Scottish publisher
William Blackwood, detail of an oil painting by Sir William Allan; in a private collection
William Blackwood
Scottish publisher
Robert Ballard
French printer
Pierre François Didot
French publisher and printer
Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
Pierre Didot
French printer and typesetter