death_date birth_place nationality notableworks birth_date genre article_title name occupation
december 25 , 1970 baltimore , maryland american '' the colonial printer '' january 14 , 1884 biographies , non-fiction lawrence c. wroth
 lawrence counselman wroth author , librarian , research professor
lawrence c. wroth

lawrence counselman wroth -lrb- january 14 , 1884 -- december 25 , 1970 -rrb- 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 .
