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Printer in Eighteenth Century Williamsburg: An Account of His Life and Times and of His Craft. Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. ISBN 978-0-9104-12209. Google book; Franklin, Benjamin V (1980). Boston printers, publishers, and booksellers, 1640-1800. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8472-9.
The first book on record printed on an American printing-press needing the services of a bookbinder was The Whole Book of Psalms, published at Cambridge in 1640. [239] John Ratcliff of the seventeenth century is the first identifiable bookbinder in colonial America, credited for binding Eliot's Indian Bible in 1663. [240]
A typical printing press of the 18th century. List of early American publishers and printers is a stand alone list of Wikipedia articles about publishers and printers in colonial and early America, intended as a quick reference, with basic descriptions taken from the ledes of the respective articles.
The New England Primer. The New England Primer was the first reading primer designed for the American colonies.It became the most successful educational textbook published in 17th-century colonial United States and it became the foundation of most schooling before the 1790s.
She wrote a number of books on colonial America (and especially the New England region) such as Home Life In Colonial Days, Old Time Gardens, Costume of Colonial Times, and Curious Punishments of Bygone Days. She was a passenger aboard the RMS Republic when, while in a dense fog, that ship collided with the SS Florida. During the transfer of ...
In Colonial times, the fashion pipeline more often than not ran from New Bridge Landing on the Hackensack River. Bergen County has been a shopping hub since Colonial times. Here's the history
Yet his books give some of the earliest and most complete information on New England flora and fauna in colonial times, and his outlook was later praised by Henry Thoreau, among others. Little is known about his life.
The first religious services held in colonial America were Anglican services held in Jamestown, Virginia, according to the Book of Common Prayer. The practice of the religion of the Church of England in Jamestown predates that of the Pilgrim settlers who came on the Mayflower in 1620 and whose separatist faith motivated their move from Europe.
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