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42631Worcester. Printed at Worcester by Isaiah Thomas. 1788. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 20cm First Edition 1389p. index titles and headers in black letter in the original full sheep crimson morocco label gilt titles raised real bands blind ruled borders on the boards all edges rubbed and worn foxed sound very good copy. amp. This book is significant as a first edition of a work printed by Isaiah Thomas and as the first printing of the first collection of Massachusetts statutes which covers Massachusetts legislation up to the year of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. It contains Massachusetts laws regulating everything from the organization of the legislature to the militia to highways. It was intentionally printed in a size and at a price that would enable significant distribution. Worcester. Printed at Worcester, by Isaiah Thomas. 1788 unknown
178870531Isaiah Thomas 1788. Full-Leather . Good/No Jacket. The Perpetual Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from the Establishment of its Constitution to the First Session of the General Court A. D. 1788. Brown calf leather original. Decorative stamped borders. Five raised bands on spine leather label with gilt lettering. Corners bumped. Endpapers have some chipping and staining. Name on title page. Edges are toned foxing throughout. Some marginal soiling. Binding tight. Wove paper. Boards are secure and sound. Size: 8vo - over 7-3/4 - 9-3/4' tall. Isaiah Thomas hardcover
1801127782Boston MA: Thomas & Andrews Newbury St. 1801. Leather Bound. Very Good. 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Leather Bound. Condition: Very Good. Thomas & Andrews Newbury St. Boston MA 1801. 452 510 403 68 pages. Contains Vols. I II and IV. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Vol. IV 1807 is 1st Editon. 1st Printing. All volumes have Very Good bindings hinges and text pages. Vol. II Title page missing bottom tip. Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Law/True Crime::Law Law/True Crime::Creating the Constitution RBR27 RBR27 Thomas & Andrews, Newbury St. hardcover
1120914221.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1167236211.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1276450524.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
30491Worcester. Printed at Worcester by Isaiah Thomas. 1788. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 20cm First Edition 1389p. index titles and headers in black letter in the original full sheep crimson morocco label gilt titles raised real bands blind ruled borders on the boards all edges rubbed and worn foxed sound very good copy ds1 ~ This book is significant as a first edition of a work printed by Isaiah Thomas and as the first printing of the first collection of Massachusetts statutes which covers Massachusetts legislation up to the year of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. It contains Massachusetts laws regulating everything from the organization of the legislature to the militia to highways. It was intentionally printed in a size and at a price that would enable significant distribution. Worcester. Printed at Worcester, by Isaiah Thomas. 1788 hardcover
178827177Printed at Worcester Mass.: Isaiah Thomas 1788. First edition. Full calf. Boards quite tender though holding worn circular stain to front board chips to rear board leather separating spine label lacking head and tail bands chipped dampstain to free front endpaper scattered foxing and toning small worm hole to rear pastedown impressions quite strong with only the odd crease. A good copy. 8 5-389 pp. 5. 8vo 21 cm. p. 231 mis-numbered 431. Lacking only the final rear blank. The first true compilation of the complete laws of Massachusetts published the same year as the ratification of the Constitution. Called the "Baskerville of America" by Ben Franklin Isaiah Thomas 1749-1831 founder of the American Antiquarian Society was an anti-British radical and leading publisher as well as the author of History of Printing in America with a Biography of Printers and an Account of Newspapers 1810. Signed by C. H. Witt. Evans 21245. Sabin 45932. ESTCW6813. Barlow 1592. Rich 348. Isaiah Thomas hardcover
2968Worcester Mass: Printed by I. Thomas by whom subscriptions essays &c. &c. for this work are taken in 1786. 8vo. 19th century three quarter red morocco with marbled paper boards. 110 pp. 30 pp. of ads extracted from the rear of each issue. <p>The first nine issues of this continuation in magazine form of Isaiah Thomas' newspaper The Massachusetts Spy a format to which Thomas resorted as a means of avoiding recently instituted tariffs on paper and taxes on newspaper advertisements.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>In a broadside he published addressing the matter Thomas observed "The tax on news-paper advertisements has a direct tendency not only to restrain but to destroy those necessary vehicles of publick information by taking away their only support.these considerations have induced the printer of the Massachusetts Spy although with greatest reluctance to discontinue the publication of that news-paper." The scope and nature of its content remained essentially unchanged in its new form.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>The present issues include such items as the text of a November 1785 treaty with the Cherokees the speech of a Seneca chief delivered at Carlisle Pennsylvania an article on the growing Russian Empire extracts from History of the Late War in America from the British Annual Register for 1776 and Dr. Johnson's Meditations on Pudding. Also includes numerous interesting advertisements some of them illustrated with woodcuts. A partially trimmed early ownership inscription appears at the foot of one leaf apparently reading "Doctr. Porter." A short-lived title The Worcester Magazine was published from 1786 to 1788.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>REFERENCES: Lomazow 20.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>CONDITION: Most issues good issue for 2nd week in May 1786 lacking leaf pp. 71-72 rubbed along the extremities and spine with some loss marginal losses from a few leaves in one instance affecting the text of an advertisement for "Stages From Portsmouth in New Hampshire to Savannah in Georgia" but this ad appears several times.</p> Worcester, Mass: Printed by I. Thomas, by whom subscriptions, essays, &c. &c. for this work are taken in, 1786 unknown
179728788Worcester Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas 1797. 12mo side-stitched 48 pp. Contemporary plain wrappers. Untrimmed with some wear at blank corners and edges. Title page woodcut text cuts. Good to Very Good. <br /> <br /> With an essay on the origin of almanacs tables of money values and interest a cure for dysentery postal rates a list of stagecoaches from Boston to various points stamp duties tables of distances inns and innkeepers.<br /> The North American Imprints Project identifies this as the first edition of this Almanac the second being entitled 'Isaiah Thomas's Massachusetts.' <br /> Evans 32919. Drake 3590. NAIP w029845. Isaiah Thomas unknown
75-7961Worcester MA: Meriden Gravure Company Frederic G. Melcher 1960. 48mo. 7.5 x 5.5 cm Stapled Wrap ca. 30 pp. B&W Plates Very Good with Creasing.Reproduced from the Original 1760 book. This is one of a Limited Edition of 1200 copies by Meriden Gravure 1960 Worcester, MA: Meriden Gravure Company, Frederic G. Melcher, 1960 unknown
1146303815.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1948WRCLIT45424Rochester NY: The Printing House of Leo Hart 1948. Gilt red cloth. Portrait and illustrations. First edition. Facsimiles and illustrations. A few small marks at extreme edges of boards bookplate obscured by jacket flap and some offset on endsheets else near very good in moderately used dust jacket with a few tape mends on the verso. The Printing House of Leo Hart hardcover books
1970Embry 162446Imprint Society Barre. 1970. First edition thus. Fine in near fine faintly soiled publisher's slipcase with one corner slightly bumped. Blue cloth no dust jacket. Number 128 of 1950 copies with a leaf from the first edition1810 tipped in. Imprint Society, Barre. 1970. First edition thus. hardcover books
1975Embry 144030Weathervane Circa 1975. Reprint. Fine in fine faintly toned dust jacket in mylar cover. Weathervane, Circa 1975. Reprint. unknown books
1970m3067Barre MA: Imprint Society 1970. Of an Edition of 1950 Copies Printed at The Stinehour Press this is No. 806. It is signed by the editor and includes an original leaf from the 1810 first edition of Thomas’s work. Octavo cloth xxi 650 pp. Near-Fine in slip case. Imprint Society, 1970. hardcover books
179433545Worcester: Isaiah Thomas Sold by him in Worcester.and at the Boston Bookstore; and by other Booksellers in Boston 1794. 48 pp. Stitched. Blank outer margins wormed light foxing. Woodcuts. Good. <br/><br/> "Nichols. says that the Thomas almanacs from 1791 to 1794 were calculated by Daniel George" NAIP. In addition to the usual this Almanac prints an excerpt from Franklin's 'Way to Wealth' an article on 'The Symptoms and Cure of the Vapours' a 'Table of Rates at which Dollars pass in the American States' tables of interest "A Table for Buying or Selling any Commodity by the Great Hundred which is 112 Pounds' and a table of roads and distances. <br/>Evans 22537. Drake 3458. NAIP w029838. Isaiah Thomas, Sold by him in Worcester...and at the Boston Bookstore; and by other Booksellers in Boston unknown books
18012272655Isaiah Thomas 1801. Soft Cover. Fair. Large chip from corner of rear wrapper lightly foxed and toned minimal loss and minor tears and creases along edges. 1801 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 48 pp. Sewn binding self An almanac by an important early American printer. Evans 38628. Isaiah Thomas paperback books
18172265380Printed by and for William Manning 1817. Soft Cover. Fair. Several marginal notes in ink which appear contemporary. Corners dog-eared. 1817 Soft Cover. 42 pp. Appears to be incomplete as OCLC calls for 48 unnumbered pages. An almanac by an important early American printer. Printed by and for William Manning, paperback books
178827177Printed at Worcester Mass.: Isaiah Thomas 1788. First edition. Full calf. Boards quite tender though holding worn circular stain to front board chips to rear board leather separating spine label lacking head and tail bands chipped dampstain to free front endpaper scattered foxing and toning small worm hole to rear pastedown impressions quite strong with only the odd crease. A good copy. 8 5-389 pp. 5. 8vo 21 cm. p. 231 mis-numbered 431. Lacking only the final rear blank. The first true compilation of the complete laws of Massachusetts published the same year as the ratification of the Constitution. Called the "Baskerville of America" by Ben Franklin Isaiah Thomas 1749-1831 founder of the American Antiquarian Society was an anti-British radical and leading publisher as well as the author of History of Printing in America with a Biography of Printers and an Account of Newspapers 1810. Signed by C. H. Witt. Evans 21245. Sabin 45932. ESTCW6813. Barlow 1592. Rich 348. Isaiah Thomas hardcover books
022242Worcester MA; 1801: Isaiah Thomas. Octavo. No pagination. 42pp. pictorial head pieces for each month contains historical sketches of earthquakes information for farmers and agriculture recipes for making blackberry jelly how to remove ink from linen poetry Officers of the Federal Government a large listing of roads to the principal towns on the continent from Boston with the names of innkeepers and more. all bound in 3/4 red morocco over marbled paper covered boards slightly raised bands spine lettering gilt previous owner's bookplate and contemporary owner's name on title page. A very nice clean copy. Isaiah Thomas unknown books
19364873New York: William Bradford Press 1936. decorated boards paper cover label. Thomas Isaiah. 12mo. decorated boards paper cover label. 7 pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies and signed by the designer Eugene M. Ettenberg. Most of spine covering chipped away. William Bradford Press unknown books
181036656Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1810. library brown buckrum. small 8vo. library brown buckrum. 487; 576 pages. Two volumes. First edition. Bigmore & Wyman III 9; S-K 3602 for binding references. All five plates are present. An invaluable book to the student of American printing and certainly the cornerstone in any collection of books on U.S. printing and publishing history. Also has information on newspapers and publishing. Thomas was the right person to write this title as he was one of the most important American publishers - booksellers of this early American period. His comments on his friends in the field and the beginnings of printing in different locations in the country based on personal knowledge make this a primary source. <BR><br /> <BR><br /> Bound in a later library buckrum binding with gilt on spine. The plate facing page 70 is present but has separated from the binding and torn into three pieces along the creases. Some tears with one effecting the page numbers 495-500 of volume II. Some marks obscuring the text on pages 152-153. A torn sheet on page 221-222 page 491-492 and 493-494. Ex-library stamp from the De Mill Library. Else a lovely copy. Isaiah Thomas unknown books
179832532Worcester Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas 1798. 12mo stitched. 48 pp. Untrimmed scattered spotting. Good. <br/><br/> This Almanac lists vacation schedules at Dartmouth Harvard Rhode Island and Williams Colleges; currency and interest tables stagecoaches from Boston to various points tables of distances with inns and innkeepers; an abstract of the Act laying a tax on slaves and houses; an advertisement for Thomas's Worcester bookstore; cures for cancer and other health nostrums. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 34652. Drake 3599. Isaiah Thomas unknown books
180021479Worcester Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas 1800. 12mo side-stitched 48 pp. Uniformly tanned moderately worn. Last leaf with a few marginal tears into text but not costing any lettering. Title page woodcut text cuts. Near Good. This Almanac contains a three-page biographical sketch of the just-deceased George Washington some poetry interest tables a French Calendar postal rates a list of stagecoaches from Boston to various points stamp duties tables of distances. FIRST EDITION. Evans 38628. Drake 3625. Isaiah Thomas unknown books
