Silver, Rollo G. (Rollo Gabriel), 1909-1989

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Birth 1909-06-27
Death 1989-09-20
Americans,
English,

Biographical notes:

Rollo Gabriel Silver, historian of American printing; author of Typefounding in America, 1787-1825 (1965), The American printer, 1787-1825 (1967), and (with Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt and Lawrence C. Wroth), The book in America (2nd ed., 1951), as well as numerous articles published in Studies in bibliography, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and elsewhere. Graduate of Brown University, Class of 1931; professor of library science, Simmons College, 1950-1965.

From the description of Rollo G. Silver notebooks, ca. 1950-ca. 1980. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 732646492

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Subjects:

  • Booksellers and bookselling
  • Booksellers and bookselling
  • Printing
  • Printing
  • Manuscripts
  • Printers
  • Printing presses
  • Type and type-founding
  • Type and type-founding

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Places:

  • Rhode Island--Providence (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)

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