Isaiah Thomas, The History of Printing in America, with a Biography of Printers, and an Account of Newspapers. 2nd ed. Albany: American Antiquarian Society, 1874.
Lawrence C. Wroth, The Colonial Printer. Portland, Me.: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1938.
——, William Parks: Printer and Journalist of England and Colonial America. Richmond: William Parks Club, 1926.
The Printer in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg was first published in 1955, inaugurating this series of craft pamphlets. Written originally by Parke Rouse, Jr., then director of publications at Colonial Williamsburg, it was revised in 1958 by the late Thomas K. Ford, editor, and has been reprinted in 1964, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1997, and 1999.
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