The Printer in Eighteenth-century Williamsburg

An Account of His Life & Times, & of His Craft

• Author(s): Thomas K. Ford, Park Rouse,
• Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg
• Pages: 34
• ISBN_10: 0910412200
  ISBN_13: 9780910412209
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Crafts & Hobbies / Book Printing & Binding , History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) ,

Description:... Though the Virginia colony was founded in 1607, printing was not conducted until 1699 when William Parks was designated public printer. Of special interest is a section on "a free press," and another on the establishment in 1736 of the Virginia Gazette, the first in the colony.