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Author : Lawrence C. Wroth
Release : 1994-01-01
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 947/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Colonial Printer by : Lawrence C. Wroth
Download or read book The Colonial Printer written by Lawrence C. Wroth. This book was released on 1994-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully illustrated study explores every aspect of the American printer and his craft from 1639 to 1800.
Author : A. Franklin Parks
Release : 2012-02-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 120/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis William Parks by : A. Franklin Parks
Download or read book William Parks written by A. Franklin Parks. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Parks: The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century is a cultural biography that traces the important early American printer and newspaper publisher&’s path from the rural provinces of England to London and then to colonial Maryland and Virginia. While incorporating much new biographical information, the book widens the lens to take in the print culture on both sides of the Atlantic&—as well as the societal pressures on printing and publishing in England and colonial America in the early to mid-eighteenth century, with the printer as a focal point. After a struggling start in England, William Parks became a critical figure for both Annapolis and Williamsburg. He provided the southern United States with its first newspapers as well as civic leadership, book printing and selling, paper, and even postal services. Despite Jefferson&’s later dismissal of his Williamsburg newspaper as simply a governmental organ, Parks often pushed the limits of what was expected of a public printer, occasionally getting into trouble and confronting the kind of control and censorship that would eventually make evident the need for press freedoms in the new republic. It has often been asserted that, had Parks not died unexpectedly and relatively young, his reputation would have rivaled that of Franklin as a printer, entrepreneur, and man of affairs.
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Release : 1865
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Author : Alfred Lawrence Lorenz
Release : 1972
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Hugh Gaine: a Colonial Printer-editor's Odyssey to Loyalism by : Alfred Lawrence Lorenz
Download or read book Hugh Gaine: a Colonial Printer-editor's Odyssey to Loyalism written by Alfred Lawrence Lorenz. This book was released on 1972. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Gaine was a Colonial New York printer who in the second year of the American Revolution first allied his press to the American cause, then deserted to publish his newspaper for the British. This first book-length biography of Gaine contributes substantially to our knowledge of journalism in the Colonial period and provides fascinating insights into life in Revolutionary times. Gaine was more than a turncoat American, Lorenz shows. From his reading of the files of Gaine's newspaper, from unpublished material, and from a wide variety of printed sources, Lorenz has pieced together this study of economic and political conservatism, religious belief, and social class feelings which made Gaine a prototypal Loyalist to the British cause, though a citizen, or at least a resident, of the United States, to the end of his days, in 1807.
Author : Sandra J. Hiller
Release : 2013-07-15
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 421/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Life of a Colonial Printer by : Sandra J. Hiller
Download or read book The Life of a Colonial Printer written by Sandra J. Hiller. This book was released on 2013-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printers played a major role in the American Revolution. They risked their careers and freedom for printing seditious ideas in their newspapers. Readers will discover how the printing press worked and how vital a printer was to the community. A fun historical topic in a graphic presentation that will captivate young readers.
