History of Books and Printing

The Book in the United States

Blumenthal, Joseph, The Printed Book in America (Boston: D.R. Godine, 1977). *R-*IPG 79-1250.

Brenni, Vito Joseph, Book Printing in Britain and America: A Guide to the Literature and a Directory of Printers (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983). *RS-*IP 84-475.

Kaestle, Carl F., et al., Literacy in the United States: Readers and Reading Since 1880 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991). JFE 91-4599.

Lehmann-Haut, Hellmutt, et al., The Book in America: A History of the Making and Selling of Books in the United States (New York: Bowker, 1952). *R-*IIE 75-1942.

Printing and Society in Early America, William L. Joyce, ed. (Worchester, MA: American Antiquarian Association, 1983). JFE 83-2874.

Tanselle, G. Thomas, Guide to the Study of United States Imprints (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1971). *RS-*IP 74-1915.

Tebbel, John, A History of Book Publishing in the United States (New York: Bowker, 1972- ). *R-*IIE 75-1084.

Wentz, Robby, Western Printing: A Selective and Descriptive Bibliography of Books and Other Materials on the History of Printing in the Western United States 1822-1975 (Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1975). *RS-*IPG 76-2617.

Winterich, John T., Early American Books and Printing (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, Riverside Press, 1935). *R-*IPG 92-10873.

Zboray, Ronald J., A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993). JFE 93-2197.