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Bibliography of printing in America; books, pamphlets and some articles in magazines relating to the history of printing in the New World. Boston, The compiler. Weeks, Lyman Horrace (1909). Historical digest of the provincial press. Prospectus. An historical digest of the provincial press. Society for Americana. Weeks, Stephen Beauregard (1891).
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.
History of paper; History of photography; History of writing; Museum of Printing; Printing and the Mind of Man; Publishing; Phaistos Disc (a stamping technology considered by some researchers to be a precursor of printing) RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection (rare book library with extensive collections on the history of printing and typography)
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.
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 American Printing History Association (APHA) is a "scholarly, educational, and charitable organization fostering the study of printing history (especially American) and the book arts. [2] It was established in 1974.
Prints & People: A Social History of Printed Pictures – an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF) Centre for the History of the Book; Printing Industries of the Americas – trade association for printers and companies in the graphic arts; The development of book and printing. English website of ...
Dard Hunter, self-portrait in watermark Front of the Mountain House in Chillicothe. William Joseph "Dard" Hunter (November 29, 1883 – February 20, 1966) was an American authority on printing, paper, and papermaking, especially by hand, using sixteenth-century tools and techniques.