Book #109766

Some Degree Of Power. From Hired Hand To Union Craftsman In The Preindustrial American Printing Trades, 1778-1815 - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Mark A. Lause

Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991.

Price: $40.00

An attractive first printing of the first edition in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket.

Illustrated. Contains chapters on "The Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Printing Trades," "The Organization of the Typographical Societies," "More Humble Followers: The Deferential Citizenship of Union Printers," and more. With two appendices: "A Directory of Known Participants in Early American Associations & Combinations of Journeymen Printers Prior to 1816" and " Clandestine Labor Organizations in early American History."; 8vo; x, [262] pages; 10.