Lawrence Counselman Wroth (January 14, 1884 – December 25, 1970) was an American historian and the author of The Colonial Printer, the definitive book on the American printing trade during the period of 1639 through 1800. Though he wrote hundreds of articles or books, Wroth was also a librarian and research professor. (From Wikipedia) More about Lawrence C. Wroth:
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| | Books by Lawrence C. Wroth: Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: Acts of French Royal Administration Concerning Canada, Guiana, the West Indies and Louisiana Prior to 1791 (reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library; New York: New York Public Library, 1930), also by Gertrude L. Annan Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: The Colonial Printer (New York: Grolier Club, 1931) (page images at HathiTrust) Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: A History of Printing in Colonial Maryland, 1686-1776 (Baltimore: Typothetae of Baltimore, 1922) Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970, contrib.: Seventeenth Century Maryland: A Bibliography (Baltimore: John Work Garrett Library, 1949), by Elizabeth Baer, also contrib. by John Work Garrett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: William Parks, Printer and Journalist of England and Colonial America; With a List of the Issues of His Several Presses and a Facsimile of the Earliest Virginia Imprint Known to Be in Existence (William Parks Club Publications #3, including a facsimile of Gooch's 1730 "Charge to the Grand Jury"; 1926), contrib. by William Gooch (page images at HathiTrust)
Additional books by Lawrence C. Wroth in the extended shelves: Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: Abel Buell of Connecticut. ([Yale university press], 1926) (page images at HathiTrust) Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: Abel Buell of Connecticut : silversmith, typefounder & engraver (Wesleyan University Press, 1958) (page images at HathiTrust) Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: American woodcuts and engravings, 1670-1800 (Associates of the John Carter Brown Library, 1946), also by John Carter Brown Library (page images at HathiTrust) Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: A description of federal public documents. (The H. W. Wilson, company, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust) Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: The fifteenth-century book; : an exhibition arranged for the 500th anniversary of the invention of printing;. (The Pierpont Morgan library, 1940), also by Pierpont Morgan Library (page images at HathiTrust) Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: The first century of the John Carter Brown library : a history with a guide to the collections (The Associates of the John Carter Brown Library, 1946), also by John Carter Brown Library. Associates (page images at HathiTrust) Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: The first quarter century of the Pierpont Morgan Library; a retrospective exhibition in honor of Belle da Costa Greene ([New York], 1949), also by Pierpont Morgan Library (page images at HathiTrust) Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: In retrospect, 1923-1949; an exhibition commemorating twenty-six years of service to the John Carter Brown Library. (Providence, 1949), also by John Carter Brown Library (page images at HathiTrust) Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: The John Carter Brown library in Brown university, Providence, Rhode Island (Priv. print., 1936) (page images at HathiTrust) Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: The Johns Hopkins alumni magazine, published in the interest of the university and the alumni. (The Johns Hopkins Alumni Association., 1912), also by Johns Hopkins University. Johns Hopkins Alumni Association (page images at HathiTrust) Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: A list of titles of books on printing and allied arts and crafts : contained in the collections of the Peabody Institute and the Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City (Ottmar Mergenthaler School of Printing, 1926), also by Ottmar Mergenthaler School of Printing, Baltimore Mergenthaler (Ottmar) School of Printing, Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute, and Enoch Pratt Free Library (page images at HathiTrust) Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: Mystical reflections on the ampersand (The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1937) (page images at HathiTrust) Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: Parson Weems; a biographical and critical study (the Eichelberger book company, 1911) (page images at HathiTrust) Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: Printing, a short history of the art (Grafton & co., 1927), also by Robert Alexander Peddie, George Parker Winship, Leonard C. Wharton, Larritiz Martin Nielson, Henry R. Plomer, James P. R. Lyell, Maurits Sabbe, Charles Mortet, Giuseppe Fumagalli, and Ernst Crous (page images at HathiTrust) Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: The simple cobler of Aggawam in America (1647) (Scholars' facsimiles & reprints, 1937), also by Nathaniel Ward (page images at HathiTrust) Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: The story of Thomas Cresap, a Maryland pioneer (Cresap Society, 1928) (page images at HathiTrust) Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: A tribute to the Clements Library. (Clements Library, 1948) (page images at HathiTrust) Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970: The way of a ship; an essay on the literature of navigation science. (The Southworth-Anthoensen press, 1937) (page images at HathiTrust)
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