Description
Book SynopsisThe Caribbean's division among European powers fostered presses reflecting colonial powers' diverse stances on printing. This book focuses on English-speaking islands, including Jamaica, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dutch West Indies, Grenada and Trinidad, offering insights into early North American colony printing parallels.
Table of ContentsPreface
Aspects of early printing and the book trade in the West Indies
The use of slave labour in West Indian printing houses
The West Indian planter and his reading
An advertisement by John Wells
Printing in 19th-century Belize
The printing of The Honduras Almanack
A Grenada printer's commendatory verse
Printing in 18th-century Jamaica
Abstracts of wills and inventories of Jamaican printers
An inventory of the first Jamaican printing house
Thomas Craddock's books
The first printers in Jamaica
Two Jamaican printers
The plantocracy's passion for Porcupine
A letter from Bernard Romans
Early circulating libraries in Jamaica
The first Jamaican private press
The St. James Printery, Montego Bay
A proposal for a papermill in Jamaica
Printing in the Swedish West Indies
Printing in Trinidad: some preliminary notes
The first Trinidad Guardian
Early printing in South Trinidad
The early printers of Grand Turk
Bibliography
Index
