In the early eighteenth century, subscriptions begins to be used in the colonies (which had less disposable income than the mother country) as a way of underwriting the production of books that, in England, would have been published simply as part of the trade. Benjamin Franklin's father, Josiah, and his brother James, are among those listed as subscribers to this work.
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Subscription Publishing of Expensive Works In America
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