Douglas McMurtrie (EUA, 1888 - 1944), foi diretor do Columbia Printing Office, Editor da Ars Tipographica e esteve à frente do American Imprints Inventory. Amante e estudioso do livro, deixou várias obras de peso, entre as quais: American type design (1924), The first printers in Chicago (1927), Jonathan Meeker, pioneer printer of Kansas (1930), The beginnings of printing in Virginia (1935), A history of printing in the United States (1936), Wings for words: the story of the Gutenberg documents (1941), The invention of printing: a bibliography (1942).