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Born 27 July 1893 in New York City to Charles and Jennie Douglas. He grew up in the Bronx, the oldest son in a family of three boys. Early on he held an interest in design and printing and by the age of 23 in 1917 was self-employed as a designer. He took position as an assistant art editor for American Magazine and was a partner in a New York advertising agency before accepting the position of Director of Art and Printing for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. In this role, he was responsible for the design of all the organization’s publications, including most prominently Nation’s Business.
Douglas also worked as a free-lance typographer and book designer. This included designing two books for the Limited Edition Club: The Travels of Marco Polo (1934) and An Almanac for Moderns (1938). Douglas also designed an edition of the four Gospels – St. Luke (1930, illustrated by Hans Foy), St. John (1931, illustrated by Daniel Lewis), St. Mark (1932, illustrated by Earl Winslow) and St. Matthew (1934, illustrated by Lyle Justis) – published by Judd & Detweiler. He later published an illustrated edition of Ecclesiastes (1958, illustrated by Hans Foy) – published by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Douglas designed numerous other books, including books of poems or prose, which were gifted to his friends at Christmas. Douglas founded his own private press, LD’s Press of the Bald Eagle in Westmoreland Hills, Maryland in 1960, one year before his death.