Daniel Berkeley Updike

Printer and scholar, born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. In 1893 he founded Merrymount Press, which printed finely made books, mostly for other publishers, and greatly influenced development of the graphic arts. A scholar of printing, he wrote Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use (1922).

Daniel Berkeley Updike (14 February, 1860 — 29 December 1941) was an American printer and historian of typography.

Updike was born at Providence, Rhode Island. He worked for the firm's Riverside Press and trained as a printer but soon moved to typographic design. He set up on his own in 1893, and renamed his enterprise the Merrymount Press in 1896.

Initially he followed the style of William Morris and the Kelmscott Press but soon turned towards the historical printing of the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. John Bianchi became a partner in the press in 1915.

Updike was greatly interested in the history of printing types, and in 1922 published Printing Types: Their History, Forms and Use.