Robert Hoe III was an American

United States

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 businessman and producer of printing press

Printing press

A printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium , thereby transferring the ink...

 equipment. He succeeded Richard March Hoe

Richard March Hoe

Richard March Hoe , was an American inventor who designed an improved printing press.-Biography:Hoe was born in New York City. He was the son of Robert Hoe , an English-born American mechanic who, with his brothers-in-law, Peter and Matthew Smith, established a steam-run manufactory of printing...

 as head of R. Hoe & Company

R. Hoe & Company

R. Hoe & Company was a New York City based printing press manufacturer established by Peter Smith, Matthew Smith , and their brother-in-law, English emigrant Robert Hoe , in 1805 as Smith, Hoe & Company.-Early Years:...

, which continued its preeminence among printing-press makers. He was one of the organizers and first president of the Grolier Club

Grolier Club

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, the well-known New York

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 organization for the promotion of bookmaking

Bookmaker

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 as an art. He was an extensive collector of rare books and manuscript

Manuscript

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s as well as silver, miniatures

Miniature (illuminated manuscript)

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, and other art objects, his collections at the time of his death being valued at several million dollars. The catalogues of his library were unique and valuable from both a typographical and bibliographical standpoint.

Works

• A Short History of the Printing Press (New York, 1902)
• Bookbinding as a Fine Art (Grolier Club; New York, 1886)

He edited Maberly's Print Collector (1880).

Further reading

• Consult a brief and fragmentary biographical sketch by Gilliss in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
  The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
  The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record is a scholarly publication devoted to the interests of American genealogy and biography. It is published on a quarterly basis by The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.-History:...
  
  , volume XLI (New York, 1910).