JAMES JOHNSTON GEORGIA'S FIRST PRINTER
1956 · Savannah
by Lawrence, Alexander A.
Savannah, 1956. [8],54,[2]pp. including several in-text illustrations and facsimiles. Publisher's patterned-paper-covered boards, original pictorial dust jacket. Minor edge wear, spine of dust jacket slightly darkened. Internally clean. Overall very good. A handsome production from the Pigeonhole Press in Savannah, giving an account of Georgia's first printer and publisher, and founder of THE GEORGIA GAZETTE, James Johnston. Includes linoleum-cut illustrations and a reproduction of the titlepage of DIRECTIONS FOR THE OFFICERS OF HIS MAJESTY'S GENERAL COURT...OF THE PROVINCE OF GEORGIA which Johnston printed in 1771 (Inventory #: WRCAM54102)