Printing in the Americas / by John Clyde Oswald.

Reprint of the 1937 edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What printing brought to the new world -- The first newspapers -- First American printing of the Bible -- Other publishing ventures -- Equipment of the colonial printshops -- Matthew Day, the first to print in the English colonies in America -- The Green family -- Other printers in Massachusetts -- William Nuthead, first printer in Virginia and Maryland -- William Parks -- William Bradford, first printer in Pennsylvania and New York -- The Franklin family -- Virginia -- Maryland -- Other printers in Pennsylvania -- The Sower family -- Women in early American printing -- Other printers in New York -- Connecticut -- Rhode Island -- William Goddard, printer and founder of the United States Postal System -- New Jersey -- New Hampshire -- Vermont -- Maine -- South Carolina -- North Carolina -- Delaware -- Georgia -- Louisiana -- Florida -- Kentucky -- West Virginia -- Tennessee -- Ohio -- Michigan -- Mississippi -- District of Columbia -- Indiana -- Missouri -- Alabama -- Illinois -- Texas -- Arkansas -- California -- Wisconsin -- Kansas -- New Mexico -- Oklahoma -- Iowa -- Idaho -- Oregon -- Utah -- Minnesota -- Washington -- North Dakota -- Nebraska -- Nevada -- South Dakota -- Arizona -- Colorado -- Montana -- Wyoming -- Alaska -- Hawaii -- Fine bookmaking -- Typography -- Machines and methods -- Printing organizations -- Nova Scotia -- Quebec -- New Brunswick -- Prince Edward Island -- Ontario -- Newfoundland -- Western Canada other than British Columbia -- British Columbia -- Greenland -- Mexico -- West Indies -- Central America -- Peru -- Bolivia -- Ecuador -- Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay -- Brazil -- Colombia -- Chile -- Venezuela -- Guiana -- Panama.

"The work treats of the introduction of printing into the countries of North, South, and Central America, and the West Indies. Printing in the Western Hemisphere began in Mexico, but I have not made the opening chapter apply to the art because of a belief that readers of the book will be mainly those in the United States and that their interest will be centered on our country. With respect to the southern countries the record is restricted principally to the pioneers, whereas in considering printing in the United States attention has been given both to introduction and development. The arrangement is usually chronological but not always so. It was felt that grouping the activities of various members of a family of printers would add sufficiently to the interest of the narrative to justify departure from the chronological order." --page xii.

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