The Printer in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg: An Account of His Life & Times, & of His Craft — John Shaqi
The Printer in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg: An Account of His Life & Times, & of His CraftRouse, Parke
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The Printer in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg: An Account of His Life & Times, & of His Craft
Rouse, Parke
Printing -- Virginia -- Williamsburg -- History -- 18th century
1766-1780 _John Dixon._ Had been Royle’s business manager before the
latter’s death, and thereafter married his widow; partner in turn
of Purdie, William Hunter, Jr., and Thomas Nicolson; moved to
Richmond in 1780.
1773-1774 _Clementina Rind._ Widow of William Rind; continued his
printing business for one year—from his death in 1773 until her
own in 1774.
1774-1777 _John Pinkney._ Continued the Rind printing business and
_Gazette_ on behalf of the Rind children from Clementina’s death
until some time in 1777.
1775-1777 _William Hunter Jr._ Natural son of William Sr., who
bequeathed him the printing shop, lot, and half-interest in the
business; on coming of age became active partner of Dixon;
partnership dissolved in 1777; Hunter, a loyalist, followed
Cornwallis to Yorktown in 1781 and thence to exile.
1779-1780 _Thomas Nicolson._ Succeeded William Hunter, Jr., as Dixon’s
partner in 1779; the firm moved to Richmond the following year.
1779-1780 _John Clarkson._ Nephew of Alexander Purdie; continued
Purdie’s _Gazette_ and printing business for about a year in
partnership with Augustine Davis.
1779-1780 _Augustine Davis._ Had been one of Purdie’s printers; with
Clarkson continued as successor to Purdie until 1780.
_Henry Bowcock_, _William Stark_, and _Robert Miller_ were connected
with printing in Williamsburg during the years 1730-1780, but it is
not known in what capacity.
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_Suggestions for Further Reading_
Bernard Bailyn, ed., _Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750-1776_.
Vol. I: _1750-1765_. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
1965.
Susan Stromei Berg, comp., _Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg Imprints_.
New York: Clearwater Publishing Co., 1986.
Charles E. Clark and Charles Wetherell, “The Measure of Maturity: The
_Pennsylvania Gazette_, 1728-1765.” _William and Mary Quarterly_,
3rd Ser., XLVI (April 1989), pp. 279-303.
Richard Beale Davis, _A Colonial Southern Bookshelf: Reading in the
Eighteenth Century_. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1979.
Hannah Dustin French, “Early American Bookbinding by Hand,” in Helmut
Lehman-Haupt, ed., _Bookbinding in America: Three Essays_.
Portland, Me.: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1941.
Rutherfoord Goodwin, “The Williamsburg Paper Mill of William Parks, the
Printer.” _Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America_, XXXI
(1931), pt. 1.
Dard Hunter, _Papermaking in Pioneer America_. Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1952.
John Edgar Molnar, _Publication and Retail Book Advertisements in the
“Virginia Gazette,” 1736-1780_. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms
International, 1978.
C. Clement Samford and John M. Hemphill II, _Bookbinding in Colonial
Virginia_. Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg, 1966.
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