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Daniel MacMillan

Scottish publisher

Author Larry McMurtry sits in a chair before shelves tightly packed with books in his bookstore.

Larry McMurtry

American author

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William Morris

British artist and author

Rupert Murdoch wearing glasses, a black suit, white shirt, and black tie, posing at the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.

Rupert Murdoch

Australian-born American publisher

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Henry Richard Vizetelly

British-Italian publisher

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Alexander MacMillan

Scottish publisher

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Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf

German publisher

A pioneering librarian

Belle da Costa Greene

American librarian and bibliographer

Marc Brown

Marc Brown

American author and illustrator

William Caxton

William Caxton

English printer, translator, and publisher

British publisher Robert Maxwell in a suit and patterned tie, seated and looking to his right, 1991.

Robert Maxwell

Czechoslovak-born British publisher

Alden, Cynthia May Westover

Cynthia May Westover Alden

American social worker and journalist

Walter Hines Page, detail of a portrait by P.A. de Laszlo; in the collection of the Department of Archives and History, North Carolina

Walter Hines Page

American author and diplomat

Times New Roman

Stanley Morison

English typographer

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Henri II Estienne

French scholar and printer

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Aldus Manutius

Italian printer

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Robert Foulis

Scottish printer

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Sir Victor Gollancz

British author and publisher

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Virginia Kirkus

American critic, editor and author

Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf

American publisher