Isaiah Thomas

A Specimen of Isaiah Thomas's Printing Types: Being As Large and Complete an Assortment As is to Be Met with in Any One Printing-office in America: Chie

Publisher Marketing: Title: A specimen of Isaiah Thomas's printing types: being as large and complete an assortment as is to be met with in any one printing-office in America: chiefly manufactured by that great artist William Caslon, Esq., of London. Author: Isaiah ThomasPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U. S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03403400CollectionID: CTRG00-B1642PublicationDate: 17850101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Leaves are numbered and printed on one side only. "The collation ... is complicated by the fact that in all the copies examined there are inserted leaves dated 1787, which are arranged slightly differently in the various copies."--Sabin. Includes ..". 6 inserted leaves dated 1787, the last two numbered '[41]' and '[42].'"--Sabin. Leaf 32 misnumbered 30; leaf 35 misnumbered 36; leaf 37 misnumbered 38. Collation: 42 [i.e., 47] leaves: ill., music (fold.); 20 cm Contributor Bio:  Thomas, Isaiah Pioneer publisher of children's literature and preeminent early American printer, Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831), learned the art of engraving while apprenticed in his youth to the Boston printer Zechariah Fowle.