A History of the Book in America, Volume 1
Subtitle: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World
Contributors: Hugh Amory (Editor); David D. Hall (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 13, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 662
ISBN-13: 9780521482561
Subjects: Literacy; Publishing industry; Social history; Sociology; Books & Reading; Book Industry And Trade; Language Arts & Disciplines; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Publishing; USA; History; American - General; Book industries and trade--United States--History--17th century; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; 18th century; United States; 17th century; Book industries and trade
First sentence: THE COLONIAL BOOK IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD is a collaborative history of the uses of print and books in the thirteen mainland British colonies that in 1776 formed the United States.