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Title The Colonial book in the Atlantic world / edited by Hugh Amory and David D. Hall.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Published in association with the American Antiquarian Society by the University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 638 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series A history of the book in America ; v. 1
History of the book in America ; v. 1.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Part 1. Some Contexts and Questions -- Introduction: Part 2. Europeans' Encounter with the Native Americans / David D. Hall -- Ch. 1. Reinventing the Colonial Book / Hugh Amory -- Ch. 2. The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century / David D. Hall -- Ch. 3. Printing and Bookselling in New England, 1638-1713 / Hugh Amory -- Ch. 4. Readers and Writers in Early New England / David D. Hall -- Ch. 5. The Atlantic World. pt. 1. The Atlantic Economy in the Eighteenth Century / David D. Hall. pt. 2. Printers' Supplies and Capitalization / John Bidwell. pt. 3. The Importation of Books in the Eighteenth Century / James Raven -- Ch. 6. The Book Trade in the Middle Colonies, 1680-1720 / James N. Green -- Ch. 7. The Southern Book Trade in the Eighteenth Century / Calhoun Winton -- Ch. 8. The Middle Colonies, 1720-1790. pt. 1. English Books and Printing in the Age of Franklin / James N. Green. pt. 2. German and Dutch Books and Printing / A. Gregg Roeber.
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Subject Book industries and trade -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Book industries and trade.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Publishers and publishing.
Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Books and reading.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Amory, Hugh.
Hall, David D.
Other Form: Print version: History of the book in America. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Published in association with the American Antiquarian Society by the University of North Carolina Press, ©2007 (DLC) 99012595
ISBN 9780807868003 (electronic book)
0807868000 (electronic book)
9781469605463 (electronic book)
1469605465 (electronic book)
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9780807834046
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