Ichabod Dawks and His Newsletter: With an Account of the Dawks Family

by Stanley Morison

Dawks is the name of a family of booksellers and printers who practised their craft in London during the seventeenth century and later. The younger Thomas Dawks was honoured with the title of 'His Majesty's Printer for the British Language' in 1676. Ichabod Dawks, 'honest Ichabod' as Steel called him, and the best-known member of the family, published Dawks's NewsLetter on the evenings of Post Nights (i.e. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) from 1696...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521163013
• ISBN13: 9780521163019
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.3" x 11.7"