Isaiah Thomas Printing Press American Antiquarian Society

Isaiah Thomas’s Printing Press This wooden common press was constructed in 1747 in London, England. It is the press that AAS founder Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831) learned to use as a child while apprenticed to Boston printer Zachariah Fowle (1724-1776). When Thomas eventually took over Fowle’s printing business, he also became the owner of this press. On this press Thomas printed

Pressing Matters: An experiential study of the Isaiah Thomas printing press at the American Antiquarian Society - Commonplace - The Journal of early American Life

Isaiah Thomas House, Worcester, Massachusetts - Lost New England

Crisp clean booklet measuring 5-1/2 tall and 8 across. Illustrated throughout with art, facsimile documents and black and white photographs. Prior

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Worcester, MA: The Press of Isaiah Thomas, Jun. 1810. 8vo. bound in mid-19th century calf, gilt on spine vi, 7-487+ 1 ; 576 pages

THE HISTORY OF PRINTING IN AMERICA, WITH A BIOGRAPHY OF PRINTERS, AND AN ACCOUNT OF NEWSPAPERS by Isaiah Thomas on Oak Knoll