Erich Wronker collection of printing medals, 1243-2001 (inclusive), 1740-1988 (bulk).

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

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Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1706] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a drafter and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the first United States postmaster general. As a scientist, he was a major figure in ...

Gutenberg, Johann, 1397?-1468

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Johannes Gutenberg was born in Mainz, Germany sometime between 1394 and 1404. He is best known for the invention of the moveable type printing press which ushered in the modern period of human history. Prior to his invention, Gutenberg lived in Strasbourg and appears to have been a goldsmith member enrolled in the Strasbourg militia. By 1448, he was back in Mainz and took out a loan from his brother-in-law Arnold Gelthus; by 1450 the press was in operation. Gutenberg then received a loan from we...

Wronker, Erich, 1921-1997.

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Erich Wronker was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1921, and lived in France, Egypt, and Palestine before immigrating to New York in 1943. There he was employed by New York University Press and, for twenty-five years, the Treaty Series Group, a printing company that worked with the United Nations. In 1955 he founded Ron Press with his wife, the calligrapher Lili Cassel-Wronker (b. 1924); Ron Press produced greeting cards, stationary, and books. Erich Wronker died on June 9, 1997. ...

Cassel-Wronker, Lili, 1924-

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Lili Cassel-Wronker was born May 5, 1924 in Berlin, Germany. She and her family fled the Nazis in 1938, and came to the United States in 1940. She attended the Art Students League in New York City and the Brooklyn Museum Art School. Early in her career, Lili Cassel-Wronker worked for Time, Incorporated's art department, as a book jacket designer for World Publishing, and taught calligraphy. She illustrated her first children's book, The Rainbow Mother Goose, in 1947. Throughout her long and prol...

Bodoni, Giambattista, 1740-1813

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Italian printer and typographer. From the description of Letter, n.d. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79696941 ...

Thomason, Edward, Sir, 1769-1849

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Coster, Lourens Janszoon, approximately 1370-1439

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De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914

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Theodore Low De Vinne (1828-1914) was apprenticed to the printer's trade in Newburgh, N.Y. but came to New York City in 1848, where he eventually became a partner in the shop of Francis Hart. On the death of the latter in 1877, De Vinne became possessed of the business eventually known as the De Vinne Press. He was recognized as a master printer and developed a comprehensive knowledge of the history of typography, which he distilled in several publications. He was a founder (1884) and president ...

Larousse, Pierre, 1817-1875

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Blades, William, 1824-1890

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English printer and bibliographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Phillips, an American collector, 1882 Aug. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870342 ...

Garamond, Claude, -1561

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Senefelder, Alois, 1771-1834

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Morris, Henry, 1925-

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Printer and papermaker Henry Morris founded the Bird & Bull Press in 1958 in Newtown, Pennsylvania. Since that time, Morris has produced broadsides, books, and other printed materials that are an important part of the contemporary American private press scene and significant documents in the art, craft, and history of hand papermaking. From the description of Swine Print : serial and letter to Anne, 1978--1979. (University of Delaware Library). WorldCat record id: 432712966 ...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492

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Epithet: of Sloane MS 1620 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001196.0x000072 ...