Very little is known about William Gibbons, the late-eighteenth-century printer and publisher who was largely responsible for producing the first American periodical intended for women readers. From his store on 144 North Third Street in Philadelphia he sold books such as Paradise Lost, Pilgrim's Progress, The Vicar of Wakefield, Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, Louisa, a Poetic Novel, and Phillis Wheatley's Poems. In 1792 Gibbons was selected by a "Literary Society" to print a newly established periodical entitled the Lady's Magazine; And Repository of Entertaining Knowledge. From Gibbons's press also came an early edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. The imprint of A Vindication carries the date 1792, which makes William Gibbons one of the first American printers of the book, which originally appeared in England in that same year. In 1793 Gibbons printed Edward Moore's Fables for the Ladies. To which are added, Fables of flora...