Carl Purington Rollins (1880 — November 20, 1960) was an American master printer at Yale University Press, graphic designer, author, and educator.
[1][2] In 1903, Rollins joined a rural monastic-centered Arts and Crafts utopian community, New Clairvaux, in Montague, Massachusetts but stayed only one year after losing sight in one eye.
He also taught a course titled “Eighteenth-Century Printing Office Practice” and established the Bibliographical Press in the University library for student use.
[1][3][2] Rollins was the editor of the Saturday Review of Literature and contributed to various publications and authored books including B.R., America's Typographic Playboy about Bruce Rodgers.
"[1][2] In 1949, The American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Grolier Club of New York put on a joint exhibit of his work and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Human Letters from Yale.