Thomas, Isaiah

THE HISTORY OF PRINTING IN AMERICA: With a Biography of Printers & an Account of Newspapers.

Edited by Marcus A. McCorison from the Second Edition. Pp. xxii+650, frontispiece portrait, title page decoration, notes, index; navy art. leather, spine lettered in gilt, upper board decorated in blind, the boards faintly marked; dust wrapper; a little light foxing; Weathervane, New York, n.d.[1970?]. Trade edition. *First published in 1810. Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831) was the leading American printer and publisher of his time. In 1970 the Imprint Society reprinted the 1874 Second Edition in a limited edition of 1950 numbered copies, edited and signed by Marcus McCorison. Item #117328

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