{"id":1061,"date":"2018-01-09T21:06:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T21:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodenpress.info\/census\/?page_id=1061"},"modified":"2018-12-25T14:45:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T14:45:56","slug":"boston-edes-gill","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.woodenpress.info\/census\/boston-edes-gill\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston: Edes & Gill"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Printing Office of Edes & Gill<\/a>: Gary Gregory. Address since July 2018: Faneuil Hall, 4 S Market St, 02109 Boston, Massachusetts.
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Facebook announcement<\/a> on March 11, 2018: \u201cEdes & Gill will be moving from our current location at Clough House as of March 19th.\u201d<\/p>\n

Website<\/a>: \u201cThe press was constructed between 1949 and 1950 by Ralph Green, an engineer and amateur printing historian. Green designed the press based up on his research from the previous few decades, and it is representative of the period 1720\u20131750. The press was used at Colonial Williamsburg until the 1990s, when it was transferred to Boston.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video: \u201c17th century style printing<\/a>.\u201d (0:42. July 27, 2011: by Peabody Museum).<\/p>\n

Many detailed photographs were used to built a press in 2017. These are available from the RIT website<\/a>.<\/p>\n