To the customers for Thomas's Massachusetts spy
Subtitle: ... The tax on news-paper advertisements has a direct tendency not only to restrain, but to destroy those necessary vehicles of publick information, by taking away their only support ... These considerations have induced the printer of the Massachusetts spy, although with greatest reluctance, to discontinue the publication of that news-paper ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 44975
Publisher: Printed by Isaiah Thomas
Published: 1786
Place of publication: Worcester, Mass
Language: eng
Subjects: Publishers and publishing; Periodicals; Publishing; Freedom of the press; Newspaper publishing; Advertising laws; Massachusetts; Massachusetts spy (Worcester); Worcester Magazine (1786-1788)
Notes: Includes also proposals for publishing the Worcester magazine in lieu of the Massachusetts spy since "advertisements accompanying magazines are not subjected to a duty."

Signed and dated: Isaiah Thomas. Printing-office, Worcester, April 3d, 1786.

Printed area measures 28.4 x 16.5 cm.

Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.

Bristol B6374

Shipton & Mooney 44975