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A History of the Book in America, Volume 1 The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World. Edited by HUGH AMORY and DAVID D. HALL. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxiv, 638pp.

The arrival of The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World marks both the culmination of almost a decade and a half of collaborative work (conducted under the auspices of the American Antiquarian Society's Program in the History of the Book) and the beginning salvo of a planned five-volume series to be published by Cambridge University Press. The volume is an impressive feat of scholarship by almost ...