Robert R. Reid is an award-winning typographer, graphic designer and letterpress printer- an acknowledged leader of the private press tradition in Canada. Born in 1927, Reid came to Montreal in 1963 from British Columbia. He spent more than ten years in Montreal from 1963 to 1976. He first held the position as Designer and Production Manager for the McGill University Press, a responsibility he held for five or more years. During that time, he also accomplished really exquisite limited and special editions. The Lande Bibliography (1965) and the Notman Photo Album entitled: Portrait of a Period (1967) are two of the outstanding productions achieved under his direction in that category.

Reid later became Director for a new Publications Service at McGill University, serving the needs of multiple departments for various kinds of “job printing” – event posters, announcements, booklets, invitations, and various printed projects of an ephemeral nature, such as these colourful postage stamps. Reid moved on to New York by 1976, and stayed there for some twenty years. He is now back in British Columbia.

Ingram Bywater was born on June 27, 1840, in Islington, London.

He was an English classical scholar. It was from his father, John Ingram Bywater (c. 1814-1864), a man of very moderate means, who spared no expense for his son's education, that Bywater got his first instruction in Greek, Latin, and French. His serious study of Greek began when he entered King’s College School and then Queen's College, Oxford. He obtained a first class in Moderations (1860) and in the final classical schools (1862), and became Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford (1863), Reader in Greek (1883), Regius Professor of Greek (1893–1908), and Student of Christ Church. His wide knowledge of books led to his being appointed Sub-Librarian of the Bodleian in 1879. He later resigned to serve as a Delegate of the Clarendon Press, a position he filled until his death in 1914. Bywater received honorary degrees from various universities and was elected corresponding Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. He is chiefly known for his editions of Greek philosophical works: Heracliti Ephesii Reliquiae (1877); Prisciani Lydi quae extant (edited for the Berlin Academy in the Supplementum Aristolelicum, 1886); Aristotle, Ethica Nicomachea (1890), De Arte Poetica (1898) and Contributions to the Textual Criticism of the Nicomachean Ethics (1892). Bywater was an expert bibliophile and bequeathed around 4,000 volumes of his collection to the Bodleian Library in Oxford in 1915.

In 1885, he married Charlotte Sotherby, née Cornish (1841–1908). He died on December 17, 1914, in Middlesex, England.