| Author | Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831.
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| Title | The history of printing in America, with a biography of printers, and an account of newspapers ... By Isaiah Thomas ...
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| Edition | 2d ed. With the author's corrections and additions, and a catalogue of American publications previous to the revolution of 1776. Pub. under the supervision of a special committee of the American antiquarian society ... |
| Published | Albany, N.Y., J. Munsell, printer, 1874.
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| Description | 2 v. ill., ports., plates.
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| Series | American Antiquarian Society. Transactions and collections ;
Archaeologia americana. Transactions and collections of the American antiquarian society. ; Vol. V-VI
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| General Note | In this edition the account of printing in the Old world is omitted.
Committee of publication: Samuel F. Haven, Nathaniel Paine, and Joel Munsell. Notes by members of committee and other contributors are distinguished by their initials.
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| Formatted Note | 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. 2.-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.
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| Subjects | American literature -- Bibliography.
American newspapers.
Booksellers and bookselling -- America.
Printers -- America.
Printing -- History -- America.
Spanish American literature -- Bibliography.
Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831.
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| Other Authors | Thomas, Benjamin Franklin, 1813-1878.
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| LC Card Number | 02-6034 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 172 A509A v.5-6
mq162293: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
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