At the Museum of Printing in Haverhill, Massachusetts, more than 6,000 books and several thousand ephemera are housed in a single library. On January 30 at 3 p.m., Frank Romano, president of the Museum of Printing and rare book collector for 60 years, will join the Princeton Bibliophiles & Collectors to introduce us to the Museum of Printing and discuss this collection of rare books.
Frank Romano is president of the Museum of Printing in Haverhill, Massachusetts and professor emeritus at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has been a leader in the graphics industry for 60 years. At RIT, Romano was Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Graphic Arts. He has written numerous books, including more recently a trilogy: “History of the Linotype Company” (2014), “History of the Phototypesetting Era” (2014) and “History of Desktop Publishing” (2019). He began his career at the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in Brooklyn, New York in 1959.
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This event has been postponed from its original date in November 2021.