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The history of printing in America. : With a biography of printers, and an account of newspapers. : To which is prefixed a concise view of the discovery and progress of the art in other parts of the world. : In two volumes. / By Isaiah Thomas, printer, Worcester, Massachusetts. ; Volume I[-II]. ; [Four lines of verse].
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 21483. Connect to full text. Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 21483.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831--Portraits.
- Thomas, Isaiah.
- Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831.
- Printing--America--History.
- Printing.
- Printers--America--Biography.
- Printers.
- American newspapers--History.
- American newspapers.
- History.
- Booksellers and bookselling--America--History.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- America.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Portraits.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations, facsimiles ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Worcester [Mass.]: : From the press of Isaiah Thomas, Jun. Isaac Sturtevant, printer., 1810.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Folded plate facing p. 70 of v. 1 signed: Callender, sc.
- Copyright May 11, 1810 by Isaiah Thomas.
- Some copies include a frontispiece portrait of Thomas signed "Marchant, from the painting by Greenwood. Pendleton's Lithography, Boston." For a discussion of the portrait, lithographed about 1828, see Nichols, Charles L. "The portraits of Isaiah Thomas" in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. 30 (1920): 251-277.
- Vol. 1: vi, [1], 8-487, [1] p., [3] leaves of plates (1 folded); v. 2: iv, [1], 6-576 p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded). Last page of v. 1 blank.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 21483).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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