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First American Printing history
First American Printing company history timeline
In 1852 Henry O. Houghton created the Riverside Press and went on to publish the works of Longfellow, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Henry James.
In 1880 Houghton partnered with his friend George Mifflin and together they founded and led the Houghton-Mifflin Company, still in existence today.
In 1895 the Athenaeum Press, another distinguished publisher, moved to Cambridge.
Sources: Kimber Sidney A., The Story of an Old Press: An Account of the Hand-Press Known As the Stephen Daye Press, Upon Which Was begun in 1638 the first Printing in British North America. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: University Press, 1937) Roden, Robert F. Famous Presses.
Printing History New Series began in 2007 under the editorship of William S. Peterson, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland, former editor of Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and the author of books about the Kelmscott Press and Daniel Berkeley Updike.
©2012 Cambridge Historical Society Researched and written by Katie MacDonald.
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