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The history of printing in America, with a biography of printers, and an account of newspapers ... / By Isaiah Thomas ...
LIBRA E172 .A3 1971 v.5-6 v.1-2 v.5 v.6
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831.
- Series:
- Archaeologica Americana ; v.5-6.
- Archaeologia Americana. Transactions and collections of the American Antiquarian Society ; v.5-6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831.
- Thomas, Isaiah.
- Printing--America--History.
- Printing.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- Printers.
- America.
- History.
- Printers--America.
- American newspapers.
- Booksellers and bookselling--America.
- American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Bibliography.
- American literature.
- American literature--Colonial period.
- Spanish American literature--Bibliography.
- Spanish American literature.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : frontispiece (portrait) folded plates ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition With the author's corrections and additions, and a catalogue of American publications previous to the Revolution of 1776. Published under the supervision of a special committee of the American Antiquarian Society ...
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Johnson Reprint Corporation,c1971.
- Contents:
- I. Preface. Memoir of Isaiah Thomas by his grandson Benjamin Franklin Thomas. History of printing in America. app. A: History of printing in Spanish America. Communicated by John R. Bartlett with lists of books printed in Mexico and Peru before 1600. app. B-I.
- II. History of printing (cont.): History of newspapers. Booksellers in the colonies, from the first settlement of the country to the commencement of the Revolutionary War, in 1775. Appendixes. Catalogue of publications in what is now the United States, prior to the Revolution of 1775-6 comp. by Samuel F. Haven, Jr. (also issued separately) Index.
- Notes:
- Committee of publication: Samuel F. Haven, Nathaniel Paine, and Joel Munsell. Notes by members of committee and other contributors are distinguished by their initials.
- OCLC:
- 2013060
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