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William Bradford (May 20, 1663 – May 23, 1752) was an early American colonial printer and publisher in British America.Bradford is best known for establishing the first printing press in the Middle colonies of the Thirteen Colonies, founding the first press in Pennsylvania in 1685 and the first press in New York in 1693.
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.
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.
Goddard purchased the first printing press made in the American colonies in 1769 from Isaac Doolittle after the latter successfully manufactured the large iron screw required in the pressing mechanism of the printing press. This marked the beginning of printing press manufacturing in America. [31]
The Cambridge Press, 1638–1692; a history of the first printing press established in English America. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. Round, Phillip H. (2010). Removable type: histories of the book in Indian country, 1663-1880. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-3390-2. Rush, Benjamin (2019). Butterfield, Lyman Henry (ed.).
John Dunlap (21 August 1746 – 27 November 1812) was an early American printer who emigrated from Ulster, Ireland and who printed the first copies of the United States Declaration of Independence and was one of the most successful Irish/American printers of his era.
1939 U.S. stamp commemorating the 300th anniversary of printing in colonial America. Daye was born in Sutton, Surrey London, and emigrated on June 7, 1638, to Cambridge, Massachusetts, on board the John of London with Joseph and Elizabeth Glover and their children and three household servants, and his wife Rebecca (Wright) Bordman (Bordman – from a previous marriage) (died October 17, 1658 ...
James Franklin learned the printer's trade in England, thereafter returning to the American colonies in March 1717, bringing with him his own printing Ramage press and printer's type. [5] [6] to start in the printing trade, and younger brother, Benjamin, became indentured to him. [7] Soon he began publishing in 1719 while working for The Boston ...