Lawrence C. Wroth: Pioneer of the ‘Bibliographical Way’

A talk by Richard Ring, Head Curator & Librarian of the Watkinson Library

Scholar-librarian Lawrence C. Wroth (1884-1970) was an acknowledged authority on colonial American history, bibliography, and cartography. A learned wordsmith who for 65 years generated seminal works on the history and print cultures of the Americas (North and South), Wroth directed the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University for nearly four decades, was a consultant to the Library of Congress for 11 years, and to the Pierpont Morgan Library for over 30 years.

This talk on his life and career will be given in celebration of Ring’s new publication of a selection of Wroth’s “Notes for Bibliophiles,” a column which appeared in the New York Herald-Tribune in the 1930s and 40s.