Title
The Worcester Magazine
Coverage
Worcester, Mass.
Publisher
I[saiah] Thomas
Date
September 1787
Subject
Volume 3, number 26
Description
In April 1786, a stamp tax imposed on newspapers caused Isaiah Thomas to suspend the Massachusetts Spy, and publish it as The Worcester Weekly Magazine. It ceased publication and only when the tax was rescinded. This is the most typographically interesting of the four contemporary magazine printings of the United States Constitution. The printer apparently received the document just before the deadline and increasingly shrank the type size to include the entire text.