Cynthia Z. Stiverson and Gregory A. Stiverson, “The Colonial Retail Book Trade: Availability and Affordability of Reading Material in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Virginia,” in William L. Joyce, David D. Hall, Richard D. Brown, and John B. Hench, eds., _Printing and Society in Early America_. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1983. 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. Transcriber’s Notes —Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication. —Silently corrected a few palpable typos. —In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_. —Transcribed the text of specimen pages. —Where possible on specimen pages, retained long-ſ and ligatures (but not typefaces) in the UTF and HTML versions. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Printer in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg, by Parke Rouse