David Szewczyk

David Szewczyk, was a full partner in The Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts Company, and was in the rare books and manuscripts business for more than 40 years. He was a Past President of the Mid-Atlantic chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Associations of America and served on that association’s board of governors. He earned a B.A. from Temple University in History and Spanish, M.A. degrees from Indiana University in the same disciplines, and completed post-Master’s work at the University of Texas at Austin. He held multiple Fulbright fellowships as well as a Ford Foundation scholarship, and was the Principal Investigator of a three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to catalog colonial-era Mexican manuscripts. He worked for the Lilly Library and was the manuscripts curator at the Rosenbach Foundation (now the Rosenbach Museum & Library). From 1968 until 2024, he has made a continuing study of the history of printing and book distribution in the New World during the colonial period in the region.