Book Description
Beautifully illustrated study explores every aspect of the American printer and his craft from 1639 to 1800.
Author : Lawrence C. Wroth
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486282947
Beautifully illustrated study explores every aspect of the American printer and his craft from 1639 to 1800.
Author : A. Franklin Parks
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0271052120
William Parks: The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century is a cultural biography that traces the important early American printer and newspaper publisher&’s path from the rural provinces of England to London and then to colonial Maryland and Virginia. While incorporating much new biographical information, the book widens the lens to take in the print culture on both sides of the Atlantic&—as well as the societal pressures on printing and publishing in England and colonial America in the early to mid-eighteenth century, with the printer as a focal point. After a struggling start in England, William Parks became a critical figure for both Annapolis and Williamsburg. He provided the southern United States with its first newspapers as well as civic leadership, book printing and selling, paper, and even postal services. Despite Jefferson&’s later dismissal of his Williamsburg newspaper as simply a governmental organ, Parks often pushed the limits of what was expected of a public printer, occasionally getting into trouble and confronting the kind of control and censorship that would eventually make evident the need for press freedoms in the new republic. It has often been asserted that, had Parks not died unexpectedly and relatively young, his reputation would have rivaled that of Franklin as a printer, entrepreneur, and man of affairs.
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Page : 98 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 1865
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Author : Alfred Lawrence Lorenz
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Hugh Gaine was a Colonial New York printer who in the second year of the American Revolution first allied his press to the American cause, then deserted to publish his newspaper for the British. This first book-length biography of Gaine contributes substantially to our knowledge of journalism in the Colonial period and provides fascinating insights into life in Revolutionary times. Gaine was more than a turncoat American, Lorenz shows. From his reading of the files of Gaine's newspaper, from unpublished material, and from a wide variety of printed sources, Lorenz has pieced together this study of economic and political conservatism, religious belief, and social class feelings which made Gaine a prototypal Loyalist to the British cause, though a citizen, or at least a resident, of the United States, to the end of his days, in 1807.
Author : William Stith
Publisher :
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 36,89 MB
Release : 1747
Category : Virginia
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Covers events from Columbus to 1621.
Author : Sandra J. Hiller
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 44,36 MB
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1477714421
Printers played a major role in the American Revolution. They risked their careers and freedom for printing seditious ideas in their newspapers. Readers will discover how the printing press worked and how vital a printer was to the community. A fun historical topic in a graphic presentation that will captivate young readers.
Author : Lawrence C. Wrot
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Page : pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : Joseph M. Adelman
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1421439905
Offering a unique perspective on the American Revolution and early American print culture, Revolutionary Networks reveals how these men and women managed political upheaval through a commercial lens.
Author : Juan de Zumárraga
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Printing
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Author : Christine Petersen
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 29,89 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Printers
ISBN : 9780761448020
Colonial America was a place of new beginnings. From the first settlement in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia, to the formation of the thirteen colonies, people arrived to start a new life and build their community. Caring for the ill was important in the building of the American colonies. In The Apothecary, explore the daily life of these medical specialists and discover their importance to the colonial community. Book jacket.