Page 1 A HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN AMERICA volume The Colonial Book in the Atlantic
World I edited by HUGH AMORY AND DAVID D. HALL Page 2 A History of the Book in America
VOLUME 1 The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World Page 3 A History of the Book in America
David D. Hall, General Editor VOLUME 1 The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World edited by
Hugh Amory and David D. Hall VOLUME 2 An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society
in the New Nation edited by Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley VOLUME 3 The Industrial Book …

The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing,
and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. Three major
themes run through the volume: the persisting connections between the book trade in the
Old World and the New, evidenced in modes of intellectual and cultural exchange and the
dominance of imported, chiefly English books; the gradual emergence of a competitive book
trade in which newspapers were the largest form of production; and the institution of a" …