THOMAS, Isaiah (1749?1831). The History of Printing in America; with a Biography of Printers, and an Account of Newspapers; to Which Is Prefixed a Concise View of the Discovery and Progress of the Art in Other Parts of the World. Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1810. 2 volume set. 8vo. vi, [7]-487; iv, [5]-576 pp. FIRST EDITION. Complete with five plates (two folding), portrait frontispiece of Thomas. Later half morocco over marbled boards, raised bands with gilt tooling, two compartments titled in gilt, remainder blind stamped, t.e.g., marbled endpapers (ex-Vermont State Library copies with library blind stamping to covers and titles, old inventory labels to lower compartments, and with attractive bookplate in each volume; interior hinges reinforced, scant foxing or offsetting to text and margins). Grolier100 American Books 29; Howes T-168 (?aa?). An important work considered to be the cornerstone of American printing and publishing history written by, as Benjamin Franklin once labeled him as, ?The Baskerville of America?.