Printer
Centurion, 1893–1914
Born 25 December 1828 in Stamford, Connecticut
Died 16 February 1914 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Woodlawn Cemetery
, Bronx, New York
Proposed by William Loring Andrews and Howard Mansfield
Elected 6 May 1893 at age sixty-four
Century Memorial
Theodore Low De Vinne, facile princeps among American printers, through a long life of labor and ingenuity accomplished achievements in his art. Among other discoveries, he perfected a method of multiplying the impressions of woodcuts by steam printing. The results appeared in the admirable reproductions in the old Scribner’s Monthly and the Century. His work with Timothy Cole upon the printing of Cole’s earlier engravings was a stimulus to the art of wood engraving. As became a craftsman of the first rank, he was a practical idealist in that he never ceased to try to do better. He wrote some excellent books on printing.
Henry Osborn Taylor
1915 Century Association Yearbook
