Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Theodore Low De Vinne
Printer
Centurion, 1893–1914
Proposed by
William Loring Andrews and Howard Mansfield
William Loring Andrews and Howard Mansfield
born
December 25, 1828
Stamford, Connecticut
Stamford, Connecticut
died
February 16, 1914
New York (Manhattan), New York
New York (Manhattan), New York
elected
May 6, 1893
Age sixty-four
Age sixty-four
buried
Woodlawn Cemetery,
Bronx, New York
Bronx, New York
Member Photograph Albums CollectionAlbum 7, Leaf 50
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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
