Name/Title
Parks, WilliamDescription
Maryland (1726) 2.
Virginia ( 1742) 1.
Died 1750 an buried in England 2.
*"The first successful printer in Virginia, Parks had been public printer to the colony of Maryland before he moved to Williamsburg in 1730. " Would die in 1750. The Bookbinder in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg, pub. by Colonial Williamsburg, 1978, pg.13.
1. Hannah French, "Early American Bookbinding by Hand" from: "Bookbinding in
America" Lehmann-Haupt ed. 1967. pg.116.
2. (1729) one "Who binds old Books very well , and cheap" Maryland Gazette,
July 15, 1729, Quoted in: A History of printing in Colonial Maryland,
1686-1776. pg. 71.
3. Williamsburg, Virginia. Arrived in Annapolis in 1726, later Williamsburg
and Richmond. Details of his work and several photographs of bindings can be
found' in "Bookbinding in Colonial Virginia", Samford and HemphillAlso Known As
William Parks*Biographical Information
Occupation
Printer and bookbinder