You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Anyone who pays attention to the popular press knows that the new media will soon make books obsolete. But predicting the imminent demise of the book is nothing new. At the beginning of the twentieth century, for example, some critics predicted that the electro-mechanical phonograph would soon make books obsolete. Still, despite the challenges of a century and a half of new media, books remain popular, with Americans purchasing more than eight million books each day. In How Books Came to America, John Hruschka traces the development of the American book trade from the moment of European contact with the Americas, through the growth of regional book trades in the early English colonial cities...
Moyes Garrigues (abt 1660?-1715) married Justine Wacher (1663-1729), Moyes was known as The Great, he was a jeweler by trade.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.