In this edition the account of printing in the Old world is omitted.

Committee of publication: Samuel F. Haven, Nathaniel Paine, and Joel Munsell. Notes by members of committee and other contributors are distinguished by their initials.

Contents: I. Preface. Memoir of Isaiah Thomas by his grandson Benjamin Franklin Thomas. History of printing in America. app. A: History of printing in [Spanish] America. Communicated by John R. Bartlett [with lists of books printed in Mexico and Peru before 1600] app. 2.-I.-II. History of printing (cont.): History of newspapers. Booksellers in the colonies, from the first settlement of the country to the commencement of the revolutionary war, in 1775. Appendixes. Catalogue of publications in what is now the United States, prior to the revolution of 1775-6 [comp. by Samuel F. Haven, Jr. (also issued separately)] Index.