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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]
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Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers. (2001) Pride, Armistead S. and Clint C. Wilson. A History of the Black Press. (1997) Safley, James Clifdford. The Country Newspaper And Its Operation (Appleton, 1930) online; Schudson, Michael. Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers (1978).
The Free and Open Press: The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty, 1640–1800 (2012). Nelson, Harold Lewis, ed. Freedom of the Press from Hamilton to the Warren Court (Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1967) Powe, Lucas A. The Fourth Estate and the Constitution: Freedom of the Press in America (Univ of California Press, 1992) Ross, Gary.
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.
It was printed by American Richard Pierce of Boston, and it was edited by Benjamin Harris, who was a refugee from England who had unsuccessfully tried to establish a free press there. The newspaper consisted of four pages 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 by 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (19 by 29 cm), with two columns, with the last page left blank, allowing one to ...
Pages in category "Newspapers of colonial America" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The Boston News-Letter, first published on April 24, 1704, is regarded as the first continuously published newspaper in the colony of Massachusetts.It was heavily subsidized by the British government, with a limited circulation.