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Ann Lea (1661–1728) was a British lithographer, map and globe seller and publisher in London who prepared maps for several works including Christopher Saxton's The Traveller's Guide being the best map of the Kingdom of England and Principality of Wales (20 sheets) and Robert Morden's A new map of the West-Indies, or the islands of America 1702.
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon 's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
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]
The first English book which was solely about Texas was Texas (1833) by Mary Austin Holley, cousin of Stephen F. Austin. It was expanded in 1836 and retitled History of Texas. [1] A later author in this period, John Crittenden Duval, was dubbed the "Father of Texas Literature" by J. Frank Dobie.
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.
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Year published: 1998 Genre: Coming-of-age 'The Killer Inside Me' by Jim Thompson. Lou Ford, the deputy sheriff of Central City, Texas, is loved by everyone and is known as the nicest guy in town.
John Oldmixon – The Grove, or Love's Paradise published ("semi-opera", music by Henry Purcell) William Philips – St. Stephen's Green; Mary Pix – The Beau Defeated; Nicholas Rowe – The Ambitious Stepmother; Thomas Southerne – The Fate of Capua: A tragedy, performed about April [4] John Vanbrugh – The Pilgrim: A comedy, anonymous ...