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While not the first printer in Maryland (as Isiah Thomas calls him in the History of Printing in America), William Parks did start the first newspaper in two different colonies, Maryland and Virginia. Parks printed and bound books in Annapolis from 1726 until 1737. Shortly after arriving in Annapolis, Parks set up an office in Williamsburg and maintained offices in two provinces for nearly a decade. It is through his Virginia office, which has been restored by Historic Williamsburg, that he is best known today.
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Shown here is Parks' first printing of the Maryland Laws: A Compleat Collection of the Laws of Maryland (Annapolis, 1727); this copy was bound by Parks.