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The First Hundred Years of Printing in British North America: Printers
and Collectors
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The First Hundred
Years of Printing
in British North
America:
Printers and
Collectors
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WILLIAM S. REESE
(This paper, in a slightly different form, was read at the
annual meeting of the
American Antiquarian Society on October 18, 1989, and was published separately,
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1990.)
This year marks the 350th anniversary of printing in what is now the United
States. In the first century of that period the business of printing was in its
infancy, confined to a handful of developing cities on the Atlantic seaboard and
practiced by a small number of craftsmen. Even before the first century drew to
a close in 1740, a historian, Thomas Prince, was attempting to collect the
materials printed in the British colonies in North America. And ever since then,
collectors, bibliographers, and libraries have painstakingly reassembled what
remains of the production of the early presses, culminating this year in the
completion of the pre-1801 phase of the North American Imprints Program (NAIP),
sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society. The exhibition on display in
Antiquarian Hall shows seventy notable imprints from the Bay Psalm Book of 1640
to the first American cookbook of 1742. The show is drawn entirely from the
Society's collections, but the earlier provenance of the items tells a story,
too, for in some instances the tale of how these imprints survived is as
interesting as the story of their creation.
The circumstances of printers in British North America and the kinds of items
they printed were not consistent throughout the colonial period. Much of the
evidence we have of the doings of colonial printers comes from the late colon"
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