RI Book Trade Atlas: Bibliography

Bibliography

The following sources were consulted in establishing the information in the Atlas, and they are cited there by their short names. A short selection of general sources are listed at the end.

Alden: Alden, John Eliot. Rhode Island Imprints, 1727-1800. New York: for the Bibliographical Society of America by R.R. Bowker, 1949.
Arnold: Arnold, Samuel Greene. History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. 2 vols. New York: D. Appleton, 1860.
Barthold: Barthold, Allen J. "'Gazette francoise,' Newport, R.I., 1780-80." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 28.1 (1934): 64-79.
Bartlett: Bartlett, John Russell, ed. Records of the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England: printed by order of the General Assembly. 10 vols. Providence: A. Crawford Greene and Brother, 1856-1865.
Blaine--1840: Blaine, Joseph W. "1840 Newport House Survey - Preliminary House Survey." Typescript.
Blaskowitz: Blaskowitz, Charles. "A plan of the town of Newport in Rhode Island." [London]: William Faden, 1777.
Brigham--Franklin: Brigham, Clarence Saunders. James Franklin and the Beginnings of Printing in Rhode Island. Boston: The Society, 1936.
Brooks: Brooks, Charles Timothy. Controversy Touching the Old Stone Mill in the Town of Newport, Rhode Island. Newport: Charles E. Hammett, Jr., 1851.
Brown SpColl: Brown, Mark N., et al. Special Collections at Brown University: A History and Guide. Providence: The Friends of the Library of Brown University, 1988. Portions Available online at http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/about/hay/history/index.php .
Buildings of RI: Jordy, William H. (ed.) Buildings of Rhode Island. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.
Cady--Civic: Cady, John Hutchins. The Civic and Architectural Development of Providence. Providence: The Book Shop, 1957.
Chace--MSS (1759): Chace, Henry R. Henry R. Chace Papers, MSS 338, Box 10, sec. 6, Rhode Island Historical Society.
Chace--MSS (1770): Chace, Henry R. Henry R. Chace Papers, MSS 338, Box7, Rhode Island Historical Society.
Chace--MSS (1779): Chace, Henry R. Henry R. Chace Papers, MSS 338, Box 1, Folder 21, Rhode Island Historical Society.
Chace--MSS (1798): Chace, Henry R. Henry R. Chace Papers, MSS 338, Box 8, Rhode Island Historical Society.
Chace--Owners (1770): Chace, Henry R. Owners and Occupants of the Lots, Houses and Shops in the Town of Providence, Rhode Island in 1798. Providence: Livermore & Knight: 1914. Section of "Owners of Houses in the Compact Part of Providence, 1770".
Chace--Owners (1798): Chace, Henry R. Owners and Occupants of the Lots, Houses and Shops in the Town of Providence, Rhode Island in 1798. Providence: Livermore & Knight: 1914.
Chapin--Ann Franklin: Chapin, Howard Millar. "Ann Franklin, Printer." American Collector 2.6 (September 1926): 461.
Chapin--Calendrier: Chapin, Howard Millar. Calendrier français pour l'année 1781 and the Printing Press of the French Fleet in American Waters during the Revolutionary War. Providence, RI: Preston & Rounds, 1914.
Chapin--Gazetteer: Chapin, Howard Millar. Gazetteer of Rhode Island. [Providence?], 1931. Typescript.
Chapin--Paper: Chapin, Howard Millar. "Early Rhode Island Paper Making." The American Collector 2.2 (April 1926): 303-309.
Chapin--Vernon: Chapin, Howard Millar. "An Unlisted Engraver and Printer of 1715." The American Collector 2.4 (July 1926): 361-2.
Chapin--Waterman: Chapin, Howard Millar. "John Waterman, Printer." The American Collector 2.5 (August 1926)
Cyclopedia: The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Rhode Island. 2 vols. Providence: National Biographical Publishing Co, 1881.
Des Barres: Des Barres, Joseph F.W. "A Plan of the Town of Newport in the Province of Rhode Island." From The Atlantic Neptune, London: 1777-81.
Downing--Early Homes: Downing, Antoinette Forrester. Early Homes of Rhode Island. Richmond, VA: Garrett and Massie, 1937.
Downing--Heritage: Downing, Antoinette F. and Vincent J. Scully. The Architectural Heritage of Newport Rhode Island, 1640-1915. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1952, 1967.
Eayrs: Eayrs, N.W. "Map of Newport, R.I." [Newport, R.I.?]: Simon Hart, [ca. 1892?].
Ferries: Chapin, Charles V. and Anna Augusta Chapin. A History of Rhode Island Ferries. Providence: The Oxford Press, 1925. See also the Chapins's "The Jamestown and Newport Ferries." Rhode Island Collections 14.4 (October, 1921): 111-120.
Fiske: Fiske, Jane Fletcher. Gleanings from Newport Court Files, 1659-1783. Boxford, MA: Fiske, 1998.
Gale: Gale, Marie J. "Some Old Newport Houses." Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society no. 36 (April, 1921): 1-20.
HABS--MSS: Historic American Building Survey Records, MSS 502, Rhode Island Historical Society.
Kornblith: Kornblith, Gary J. "Becoming One's Own Master: Bennett H. Wheeler, Yankee Printer." Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village Herald 13.1 (1984): 10-18.
Lopez: Chyet, Stanley F. Lopez of Newport: Colonial American Merchant Prince. Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 1970.
Loschky: Loschky, Helen. Carter and Wilkinson: Rhode Island's First Publishing House, 1793-1799. 1966. Brown University term paper.
Mason--Newport Illustrated: Mason, George Champlin. Newport Illustrated: In a Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches. Newport: C.E. Hammett, Jr., 1875.
Mason--Reminiscences: Mason, George Champlin. Reminiscences of Newport. Newport: Charles E. Hammett, Jr, 1884.
McBurney: McBurney, Christian. A History of Kingston, R.I., 1700-1900. Kingston: Pettaquamscutt Historical Society, 2004.
McMurtrie: McMurtrie, Douglas C. "The Beginning of Printing in Rhode Island." Americana 39.4 (1935): 607-629.
Miner: Miner, Ward L. William Goddard, Newspaperman. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1962.
Mumford: Mumford, Paul M. A Defence. [Providence?]: [1827].
NHM: Newport Historical Magazine. Newport: Newport Historical Publishing Co.
NM: The Newport Mercury.
NYPL: Brown, H. Glenn and Maude O. Brown. A Directory of Printing, Publishing, Bookselling & Allied Trades in Rhode Island to 1865. New York: New York Public Library, 1958. A selected list of emendations can be found here.
Palmer: Palmer, Henry Robinson. "The Libraries of Rhode Island."New England Magazine n.s. 22.4 (June 1900): 478-500.
Phelps: Phelps, C. Deirdre. Solomon Southwick, 1731-1797, Patriotic Printer of Rhode Island. Somerville, MA: C. Deirdre Phelps, 2001.
Plan--1782: Plan de la position de l'armee francaise au tour de Newport dans Rhode jsland et du mouillage de l'escadre dans la rade de cette ville. Paris: Chez le Rouge, Rue des Grands Augustins, 1782.
PPP: Providence Typographical Union No. 33. Printers and Printing in Providence, 1762-1907. [Providence: Providence Print. Co., 1907]
ProvGaz: The Providence Gazette.
Richardson--Occupations: Richardson, George H. Occupations: Craftsmen in Newport, and Other Information about the Town's Inhabitants. [Newport, n.d.]. Photocopied of a scrapbook held by the Newport Historical Society. No evidence of sources for entries is provided.
RIHPC--Providence: Woodward, William McKenzie and Edward F. Sanderson. Providence: A Citywide Survey of Historic Resources. [Providence]: Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1986.
RIHPC--Warren: Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission. Warren, Rhode Island Statewide Preservation Report B-W-1. Providence: The Commission, 1975.
Rusden: Rusden, Irma G. A Brief History of Shakespeare's Head. [S.l.: s.n.]. Typescript.
Spawn: Spawn, Willman, and Carol M. Spawn. "Francis Skinner, Bookbinder of Newport: An Eighteenth-Century Craftsman Identified by His Tools."Winterthur Portfolio 2 (1965): 47-61.
Stevens: Stevens, Maud Lyman. "Newport Streets." Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society. 67 (December 1928): 1-13.
Stiles: Stiles, Ezra. Manuscript Map of Newport. 1758. Reproduced on page 127 of Guinness and Sadler, Newport Preserv'd. New York: Viking Press, 1982.
Swan: Swan, Bradford F. The First Printing in Providence. 1951.
Tilley: Tilley, Edith May. Historic Spots in Newport. Newport: Mercury Publishing, 1914.
Warren 200th: Peck, Henry J. 200th Anniversary of Warren, Rhode Island, Historical Sketch. Warren: Town of Warren, 1947.
Watermarks: [Chapin, Howard M.] "Watermarks on Early Rhode Island Paper." Rhode Island Historical Society Collections 23.4 (October, 1930): 117-119.
Weeden: "J. Weeden, Printer." Rhode Island Historical Society Collections 12.3 (1919): 75-6.
Winship--Newspapers: Winship, George Parker. "Newport Newspapers in the Eighteenth Century." Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society. no. 14 (October, 1914):1-19.
Wroth: Wroth, Lawrence C. "The First Press in Providence: A Study in Social Development." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 51.2 (1942): 351-83.

General Sources

An online map that visually demonstrates the spread of printing in fifteenth-century Europe:

The Atlas of Early Printing, from the University of Iowa Libraries: http://atlas.lib.uiowa.edu/ .

For a fascinating and beautifully-produced overview of the history of attempts to depict time:

Rosenberg, Daniel and Anthony Grafton. Cartographies of Time. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.

A recent collection of essays that takes as its starting point the geographical elements in Lucien Febvre and Heri-Jean Martin's L'Appartion du Livre:

Ogborn, Miles and Charles W.J. Withers, eds. Geographies of the Book. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2010.

On the potential uses of GIS and mapping for book history:

Black, Fiona A., Bertrum H. MacDonald, and J. Malcolm W. Black. “Geographic Information Systems: A New Research Method for Book History.” Book History 1.1 (1998): 11-31.

The mapping of the book trade has a long and productive history in Great Britain, especially with regard to the London trade, and particularly in the work of scholars like Peter Blayney and James Raven. For a convenient collection of articles by scholars working on the London bookscape, including Blayney and Raven :

Myers, Robin, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote, eds. The London Book Trade: Topographies of Print in the Metropolis from the Sixteenth Century. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll, 2003.

Also by Raven:

Raven, James. “Constructing Bookscape: Experiments in Mapping the Sites and Activities of the London Book Trades of the Eighteenth Century.” Mappa Mundi: Mapping Culture/Mapping the World. Ed. J Murray. Windsor: University of Windsor, 2001: 35-59.