Title: The colonial printer /
Authors: Wroth, Lawrence C.
Date: 1964
Publisher: Dominion Books,
Physical description: xxiv, 368 p. : illus., facsims. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Z
Contents: Description of Plates -- Preface -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction -- The First Presses of the Colonies -- The Colonial Printing House -- The Colonial Printing Press -- Type and Type Founding of the Colonial Period -- Printing Ink -- The Paper of the Colonies -- The Journeymen and Apprentices -- General Conditions of the Trade -- Bookbinding in Colonial America -- The Product of the Colonial Press Part I. The Content -- The Product of the Colonial Press Part II. External Characteristics -- Appendix to Chapter IV -- Notes -- A List of Works Referred to in the Notes by Short Titles -- Index.
Notes: "Reprinted by arrangement with the Anthoensen Press." Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Book industries and trade--United States--History.; Book industries and trade--United States.; Printing industry--United States--History.; Printing industry--United States.; Printing--United States--History.