Show Printing In The TheUS U. U S. S 1 Newsweek reminds us that this is the year of printing in fit the United States although the art 4 was practiced in Mexico years earlier arlier The first printing press to tobe tobe tobe be brought to was wasa a second-hand second one which arrived from England in 1638 After a visit to America the Rev Joseph Glover a well-to-do well minister of Surrey returned to England resigned his pastorate and decided to found a college in inthe inthe inthe the colonies With his wife the printing press and a printer named nam nam- named named ed Stephen Daye Dae he sailed again for American but died at sea Shortly after his widows widow's arrival in Boston she married the Rev Henry Dunster the first president of Harvard Harv rd and the printing press was set up there with Daye Daye- in charge bf the shop which later be became became became came known as as the University Press Copies of o four publications by byI I I Daye still exist one of which The Bay Book printed in 1640 is one of the most valuable t rare books in English in the world The first book printed in the Western Vestern world is said to have been beena a religious tract in Spanish called Escala published by one Juan Pablos in Mexico City in 1537 |