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Albaugh, Gaylord P. HISTORY AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN RELIGIOUS PERIODICALS AND NEWSPAPERS ESTABLISHED FROM 1730 THROUGH 1830, WITH LIBRARY LOCATIONS AND MICROFORM SOURCES.
2 volumes. Worcester American Antiquarian Society 1994 thick 4to. cloth. xc,719; vii,720-1456 pages.
First edition. Reproduced from typescript. Introduction by John B. Hench followed by bibliography, chronological listing of titles by years of founding, geographical list of titles, and titles by major religious interests. Also includes an index of editors, publishers, printers, illustrators and engravers.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 42181

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(American Antiquarian Society) Burkett, Nancy H. and John B. Hench (editors). UNDER ITS GENEROUS DOME, THE COLLECTIONS AND PROGRAMS OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.
Worcester American Antiquarian Society 1992 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 190 pages.
Second edition, revised. Edited by Nancy H. Burkett and John B. Hench and a foreword by Jill Ker Conway. Illustrated.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 42174

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(American Antiquarian Society) Gura, Philip F. THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, 1812-2012: A BICENTENNIAL HISTORY.
Worcester, Massachusetts American Antiquarian Society 2012 6.75 x 10 inches hardcover, dust jacket 454 pages
Founded in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1812 by Isaiah Thomas, the patriot printer and leading publisher of the new nation, the American Antiquarian Society reflects his vision for the printed record of America's history-its preservation and its interpretation. Over two centuries, beginning with Thomas's gift of his own extensive library of books and newspapers, this learned society has become widely recognized as a national treasure. The collections are an indispensable resource for everyone interested in studying the United States to 1876. Scholars, artists, and writers benefit from the library collections and its fellowship programs to conduct research resulting in books and other works that frequently earn national awards. The Society also offers lectures, seminars and conferences, programs for teachers, and a rich website for diverse audiences.

This volume traces the development of the library and the role the Society's librarians have played as collectors, scholars of American writing and publishing, and stewards of the nation's history. Readers will meet Isaiah Thomas and his successors at the Society's helm: Christopher Columbus Baldwin, Samuel Foster Haven, Edmund Mills Barton, Clarence Brigham, Clifford K. Shipton, Marcus A. McCorison, and Ellen S. Dunlap. Each has moved the Society forward by deftly matching the institution's needs with local and national developments. The Society celebrates its bicentennial as a leading independent research library, a pioneer in the digitization of its collections, and a center of scholarship for the study of American history and culture.

The American Antiquarian Society-pride and joy of its founder Isaiah Thomas-holds the DNA of our shared national patrimony. On the occasion of its bicentennial, this uniquely American library has published a copiously illustrated history that is at once scholarly in purpose, rich in probing insight, and brimming with narrative detail. While keenly alert to the evolution of the Society, Philip F. Gura's guiding approach has been more finely focused on its intellectual development as a cultural repository of extraordinary consequence, with careful attention given to the people who have shaped and nurtured it into the twenty-first century. The founding spirit of this remarkable institution-a bookman for the ages "touched early by the gentlest of infirmities, bibliomania"-would be mightily pleased, I am certain, with this magisterial tribute to his enduring legacy.
-Nicholas A. Basbanes, author of A World of Letters: Yale University Press, 1908-2008 and A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books.

Philip F. Gura, William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture since 2000, has taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1987. Widely recognized for his scholarship, Gura, who first visited the American Antiquarian Society as a reader in 1971, considers his election to membership in 1988 one of his highest honors. He is the author of many books, including American Transcendentalism: A History (2007), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (nonfiction) and Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel (forthcoming in 2013).
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 108979

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(Baldwin, Christopher Columbus) Larkin, Jack and Caroline Sloat (editors) A PLACE IN MY CHRONICLE: A NEW EDITION OF THE DIARY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS BALDWIN, 1829-1835.
Introduction and Transcription by Jack Larkin Worcester, Massachusetts American Antiquarian Society 2010 8.5 x 11.5 hardcover, dust jacket 322 pages
The text of Baldwin's diary is a virtual trip back in time, and this edition with its lively illustrations and helpful identification of the hundreds of people he meets along the way, takes the reader back into Massachusetts in the years between 1829 and 1835. Numerous illustrations and pictures expand the descriptions Baldwin gives readers in his entries. Additionally, Larkin and Sloat use footnotes to explain information, such as dates or places, that audiences may be unfamiliar with. Baldwin's entries detail a wide variety of subjects, including everyday occurrences, such as the weather and places he visited, as well as the obscure and unusual things that amused him. Also discussed are people Baldwin met (with an index in the back describing every person in detail) in addition to his feelings on important subjects, such as slavery and religion, and his passions for books and reading. Larkin and Sloat have restored Baldwin's diary to its most original form, including the format, style and language in which he wrote. Readers will have a thorough understanding of life in Massachusetts in the early republic after reading Baldwin's diary.

"The diaries of Christopher Columbus Baldwin have long been among the American Antiquarian Society's nineteenth-century treasures. Baldwin's 'chronicle' now has a modern edition worthy of its invaluable contents, richly illustrated and superbly annotated thanks to the labors of Jack Larkin and Caroline Sloat. In these pages, everyday life in central Massachusetts- courtship and death, career and travel- shares the stage with key national developments of the early republic, from party politics to temperance to phrenology. Through it all, Baldwin reveals the passion for reading and collecting books that made him AAS's ideal librarian at the time and a forebear to all the men and women who have built America's great research collections." - Scott Casper, professor of history, University of Nevada, Reno
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 104667

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Barnhill, Georgia B., Diana Korzenik and Caroline F Sloat (editors). THE CULTIVATION OF ARTISTS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA.
Worcester American Antiquarian Society 1997 8vo. cloth 212 pages.
The study of art history and artist education includes examining how historical and environmental factors affect the way artists receive their training. This collection of essays published by the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) brings the role of history back into exploring how young people began and developed as artists in the nineteenth century. The contributors' work reveals the relationship between art education in public schools and training opportunities in the trade. Because many middle and lower-class students could not afford to go to Europe for training and study, many took on employment in the shops of commercial pictorial printmakers and publishers during this time. This provided an alternative entry to art education. Some of these essays examine how various 19th-century businesses offered training opportunities to those wanting to pursue art. The essays here cover topics including engraving, lithography, drawing, sheet music, chromolithography, wood engraving, alternatives to art school, educating designers for industry and art museum schools.
Price: $ 32.50 other currencies Order nr. 47095

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Barnhill, Georgia B. (editor) WITH A FRENCH ACCENT: AMERICAN LITHOGRAPHY TO 1860.
Worcester, Massachusetts American Antiquarian Society 2012 8.5 x 11 inches paperback 100 pages
With a French Accent: American Lithography to 1860 from the American Antiquarian Society features five essays from Georgia B. Barnhill, Lauren B. Hewes, Catherine Wilcox-Titus, Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire, and Helena E. Wright that explore several topics of interest to scholars of American print publishing. Together, the essays examine the impact of French lithographic practice on the American lithographic industry and American visual culture; the circulation of French imagery in the United States with a case study on portraits of Napoleon and Lafayette; Goupil's French lithographs after American genre and history paintings; and the use of French lithographs in didactic displays at the Smithsonian Institution in the late nineteenth century.

The book explores the variations in quality among early American lithographs. The first essay by Georgia Barnhill closely looks at this phenomenon and examines the work of several academically-trained French lithographic artists who worked in New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, and Boston from the mid-1830s to 1860.

The essay by Lauren Hewes looks at the circulation of French imagery in the United States. Some lithographs in the American Antiquarian Society collection were published in France for an American market, and there is a selection of sentimental prints and portraits that were printed in the United States, but were French in derivation. The book provides reasoning for why prints of Napoleon and Lafayette were moved into the American culture. Using the paintings and prints of these two political leaders as a case study, Catherine Wilcox-Titus reveals the importance of lithography to the dissemination of fine art to a large mass audience.

Next, the essay by Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire considers how the American paintings reproduced by Goupil, Vibert and Company led to the transatlantic cultural understanding and exchange. Because Goupil published so many lithographs for American and European audiences, he is an important part of the link between French and American lithography. The last essay by Helena Wright provides thoughts on the afterlife of French lithographs in American culture and the collecting and use of French lithographs in the United States National Museum.

Illustrated with black-and-white and color prints, this publication will be an excellent resource for the study of American prints and the French influence on the development of early lithography in the United States.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 109010

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Barnhill, Georgia Brady (editor) PRINTS OF NEW ENGLAND.
Worcester American Antiquarian Society 1991 4to. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 164, (2) pages.
These articles focus on the first available studies on James Turner (1722-59), silversmith-engraver by Martha Fales; William Bentley's bequest of an exceptional collection of portraits by Stefanie Winkelbauer; American 18th-century portrait prints by Wendy Reaves; the publishing of illustrations in the Society's first substantial publication in 1820 by Marcus McCorison; New England's political cartoons from 1812-61 by Georgia Barnhill; the maps of Franklin Leavitt by David Tatham, and textile printing by Jane Kaufmann. Extensive illustrations and a checklist of the prints in the exhibition are also included. The 1976 Seventh North American print conference, at which these articles were presented, was co-sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society and the Worcester Art Museum and sought to cover New England printmakers and prints about New England, reflecting the diversity of the history of the region, its graphic arts and the strengths of the collections of the museum and of the Society.
Price: $ 59.95 other currencies Order nr. 39076

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(Billias, George Athan) Klein, Milton M., Richard D. Brown and John B. Hench (editors). REPUBLICAN SYNTHESIS REVISITED.
Edited by Milton M. Klein, Richard D. Brown, John B. Hench. Worcester American Antiquarian Society 1992 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 165 pages.
Essays by Isaac Kramnick, Robert E. Shalhope, Lance Banning, Peter S. Onuf, Cathy Matson, and Gordon S. Wood. With a biographical sketch of this historian.
Price: $ 19.95 other currencies Order nr. 42177

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(Bookbinding) EARLY AMERICAN BOOKBINDINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF MICHAEL PAPANTONIO
Worcester American Antiquarian Society 1985 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xx, 120 pages.
Revised edition. An excellent exhibition catalogue and one of the best guides to the subject. Identification of binding tools is provided when known. With contributions by Nicolas Barker and Marcus McCorison.
Price: $ 27.50 other currencies Order nr. 32006

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(Bookbinding) French, Hannah D. BOOKBINDING IN EARLY AMERICA.
Worcester American Antiquarian Society 1986 4to. cloth. xxiv, 230 pages.
First edition. Contains previously published and unpublished works by Hannah French. Articles on Andrew Barclay, an early Boston binder, Henry B. Legg, Caleb Buglass, a Philadelphia binder, John Roulstone's Harvard bindings, and Thomas Jefferson's last binder, Frederick August Mayo. Also contains catalogues of bookbinding tools by Willman Spawn. Foreword by Marcus A. McCorison. Many illustrations.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 38017

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(Calligraphy) Nash, Ray AMERICAN PENMANSHIP, 1800-1850. A HISTORY OF WRITING AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF COPYBOOKS FROM JENKINS TO SPENCER.
Worcester American Antiquarian Society 1969 8vo. cloth. xii, 303 pages.
Best bibliography of the subject.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 7237

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(Children's Books) Welch, D'Alte A. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS PRINTED PRIOR TO 1821.
N.P. American Antiquarian Society 1972 7.5 x 10.25 inches cloth. 522 pages
First edition. Full descriptions of over 1000 books. Excellent reference tool.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 25465

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(Cobbett, William) Gaines, Pierce W. WILLIAM COBBETT AND THE UNITED STATES, 1792-1835. A BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH NOTES AND EXTRACTS.
Worcester American Antiquarian Society 1971 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxi, 249 pages
First edition. In the early 1790s, William Cobbett, an ex-plowboy and soldier, arrived in Philadelphia and set off a journalistic explosion. In an age of slashing and scurrilous pamphleteering, Cobbett, better known under the pseudonym of Peter Porcupine, proved to be the most hard-hitting, fearless, prolific and irrepressible bully-boy with pen and types that America had ever seen or possibly ever was to see. Pierce Gaines provides an in-depth guide to Cobbett's literary and publishing activities, covering all his writings published in America, all the items he issued as a publisher, and all those that he wrote or published elsewhere but that relate to America. Extracts are furnished from the original publications to convey their character and flavor. Though this is primarily an author bibliography, it also provides a racy account of journalism.
Price: $ 27.50 other currencies Order nr. 12382

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Felcone, Joseph J. PRINTING IN NEW JERSEY 1754-1800: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
Worcester, Massachusetts American Antiquarian Society 2012 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover, dust jacket 544 pages
The first permanent printing office in New Jersey was established in 1754 by James Parker. Laws, proceedings of the assembly, and proclamations of the royal governors all came from Parker's press, as did numerous works for the fledgling College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). Other printers soon saw opportunity in New Jersey, so that by 1800, forty-four individuals had been either proprietors or partners in printing offices spread across the state from Sussex County to Cumberland County. Printing in New Jersey contains full descriptions of all of the known products of every eighteenth-century New Jersey press.

As a descriptive bibliography of early American imprints, this book sets a new standard for comprehensiveness. Of the 1,265 books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and broadsides included, almost a quarter of them are recorded here for the first time. Every entry receives detailed bibliographical treatment: full collations are provided, paper and type are identified, contemporary bindings are described, and advertisements in newspapers are recorded. Every located copy has been collated, and full copy-specific data, including eighteenth-century provenance, is presented. Extensive notes identify anonymous authors, provide biographical and historical context, attribute unsigned printing, and establish press runs.

The second part of the text is devoted to items that may have been printed in New Jersey but for which insufficient documentation has been found to permit a clear attribution to a New Jersey press. A third part contains works incorrectly attributed to a New Jersey press by earlier bibliographers and now removed from the New Jersey printing canon. The rich back matter supports the bibliography. The first of three appendices lists the alphabetical, chronological, and geographical distribution of printing offices in eighteenth-century New Jersey. The second appendix is a register of the New Jersey book trade that records printers, publishers, booksellers, newspaper proprietors, bookbinders, papermakers, and others engaged in any aspect of the book trade or allied arts in New Jersey from 1754 through 1800. The third appendix contains six concordances. An extensive list of manuscript collections and printed resources essential to the study of eighteenth-century New Jersey printing documents the work. The volume concludes with three indexes: an index of printers and publishers, a provenance index, and a comprehensive general index.

Joseph J. Felcone has spent a lifetime collecting, studying, and writing about New Jersey books and the early New Jersey book trade. To compile this comprehensive work, he visited and fully surveyed 115 libraries, from the major repositories in the United States and England to county and local historical societies in New Jersey, and physically examined and recorded every eighteenth-century New Jersey imprint.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 108913

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(Forgery) Gilreath, James (editor) THE JUDGMENT OF EXPERTS, ESSAYS AND DOCUMENTS ABOUT THE INVESTIGATION OF THE FORGING OF THE OATH OF A FREEMAN.
Worchester American Antiquarian Society 1991 7.25 x 10.25 inches cloth, dust jacket. x, 271 pages.
First edition. Contains an anthology of documents and first-hand accounts by Justin Schiller, Marcus McCorison, Robert Mathiesen, and others who represent institutions and individuals that were involved in the story of Mark Hofmann's "Oath of a Freeman" forgery. Illustrated with facsimiles.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 33764

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Hewes, Lauren B. and Caroline F. Sloat PORTRAITS IN THE COLLECTION OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.
Worcester, MA American Antiquarian Society 2004 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 408 pages.
Portraits in the Collection of the American Antiquarian Society grew out of a project initiated by Georgia B. Barnhill, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Graphic Arts at the American Antiquarian Society, to update the documentation of the Society's portrait collection reflecting its growth since 1946.
The collection is an eclectic one that represents many aspects of the history of the Society: the interests of benefactors who gave their collections to the Society and the impulse to commemorate the Society's leadership. A number of portraits came into the collection with or because of related manuscript or book collections or were commissioned by the Society, and, for these, there is extraordinary information about the circumstances of their production.
Art historian Linda J. Docherty addresses the eclectic nature of the collection in an introductory essay in which she notes that "subject matter always took precedence over artistic quality at the Society, which, eschewing aesthetic standards, formed a collection of visual range and great historical import." Hewes, in addition to drafting catalogue entries for each portrait, has written an essay providing an overview of the 164 painted portraits, miniatures, and busts that comprise the Society's portrait collection. She observes that, like other institutional collections, these portraits speak to the Society's mission by reminding its staff of the individuals and ideas that preceded them. But, because AAS is primarily a research library of American history and culture, many of the images are of individuals closely affiliated with the Society's book and manuscript holdings. The Society has not limited itself to the collection of only aesthetically perfect canvases by famed artists, although works by important painters such as Peter Pelham and Christian Gullager became part of the collection in the nineteenth century. The assembling of representative works of period artists has never been a collecting objective; indeed, the observation by a visitor to the Society in 1841 that 'some of them [are] curious specimens of the art of design' still pertains. With 203 black-and-white illustrations and a 24-page color insert. Distributed for the American Antiquarian Society.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 76219

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IN PURSUIT OF A VISION: TWO CENTURIES OF COLLECTING AT THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.
Worcester American Antiquarian Society 2012 7.5 x 10.5 inches paperback 222 pages
This generously illustrated catalogue accompanies a fall 2012 exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York celebrating the American Antiquarian Society's bicentennial year. In Pursuit of a Vision: Two Centuries of Collecting at the American Antiquarian Society chronicles the ways in which important books, pamphlets, newspapers, graphic art, manuscripts, and other materials have come to AAS. The exhibition and catalogue focus on the librarians, collectors, book dealers, and donors who helped build the Society's extraordinary holdings.

The American Antiquarian Society was founded in 1812 in Worchester, Massachusetts, by the patriot, printer, and publisher Isaiah Thomas. AAS is a principal research center for the study of the nation's history and culture and holds one of the world's foremost collections of books, newspapers, and broadsides printed in early America. Thomas's personal library forms the nucleus of the collection, which today numbers four million items, including nearly 750,000 books, over two million newspapers, and substantial holdings of periodicals, graphic arts, and manuscripts.

It would be difficult to truly represent the full breadth and depth of AAS collections in a single exhibition, so a different approach was taken here. In Pursuit of a Vision introduces nearly thirty of the many individual scholars, philanthropic collectors, librarians, members, and book dealers who have, over the past two hundred years, helped to build this independent institution into a national treasure. As aficionados of the history of print and collectors well know, each addition to a collection comes with its own story. This exhibition and generously illustrated catalog chronicle the individual stories of almost two hundred objects, with eighteen essays addressing major aspects of the Society's collecting history: laying the foundation, late nineteenth-century benefactors, collecting in the twentieth century, bibliographic initiatives, collection development, and responsible stewardship. As the American Antiquarian Society begins its third century as a leading research library and a learned society, the institution's success remains a collective achievement shared by many individuals, both past and present, whose commitment and generosity have made it a reality.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 109945

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IN PURSUIT OF A VISION: TWO CENTURIES OF COLLECTING AT THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.
Worcester American Antiquarian Society 2012 7.5 x 10.5 inches hardcover 222 pages
This generously illustrated catalogue accompanies a fall 2012 exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York celebrating the American Antiquarian Society's bicentennial year. In Pursuit of a Vision: Two Centuries of Collecting at the American Antiquarian Society chronicles the ways in which important books, pamphlets, newspapers, graphic art, manuscripts, and other materials have come to AAS. The exhibition and catalogue focus on the librarians, collectors, book dealers, and donors who helped build the Society's extraordinary holdings.

The American Antiquarian Society was founded in 1812 in Worchester, Massachusetts, by the patriot, printer, and publisher Isaiah Thomas. AAS is a principal research center for the study of the nation's history and culture and holds one of the world's foremost collections of books, newspapers, and broadsides printed in early America. Thomas's personal library forms the nucleus of the collection, which today numbers four million items, including nearly 750,000 books, over two million newspapers, and substantial holdings of periodicals, graphic arts, and manuscripts.

It would be difficult to truly represent the full breadth and depth of AAS collections in a single exhibition, so a different approach was taken here. In Pursuit of a Vision introduces nearly thirty of the many individual scholars, philanthropic collectors, librarians, members, and book dealers who have, over the past two hundred years, helped to build this independent institution into a national treasure. As aficionados of the history of print and collectors well know, each addition to a collection comes with its own story. This exhibition and generously illustrated catalog chronicle the individual stories of almost two hundred objects, with eighteen essays addressing major aspects of the Society's collecting history: laying the foundation, late nineteenth-century benefactors, collecting in the twentieth century, bibliographic initiatives, collection development, and responsible stewardship. As the American Antiquarian Society begins its third century as a leading research library and a learned society, the institution's success remains a collective achievement shared by many individuals, both past and present, whose commitment and generosity have made it a reality.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 110055

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Joyce, William L., David D. Hall, and Richard D. Brown PRINTING AND SOCIETY IN EARLY AMERICA
Worcester American Antiquarian Society 1983 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 322 pages.
First edition. These essays have been written by leading scholars on early bookselling, reading habits and the impact of printing in early America. Printing history in its broadest context may be viewed as a distinct form of cultural history, a synthesis combining the attention to ideas that is central to intellectual history with the emphasis on patterns of behavior and organization characteristic of social history. This work encourages new approaches to the study of early printing, including the fusion of bibliographical analysis and the broadly cultural approach of the French historians of books and society. Together, the essays demonstrate how the world of print changed between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - both shaping and reflecting the larger American culture. Titles of the papers presented here include "The Uses of Literacy in New England, 1600-1850," "The Anglo-American Book Trade before 1776," "The Wages of Piety: The Boston Book Trade of Jeremy Condy," "The Colonial Retail Book Trade: Availability and Affordability of Reading Material in Mid-Eighteenth Century Virginia," "Bibliography and the Cultural Historian: Notes on the Eighteenth-Century Novel," "Early Music Printing and Publishing," Books and the Social Authority of Learning: The Case of Mid-Eighteenth-Century Virginia," "Elias Smith and the Rise of Religious Journalism in the Early Republic" and "Print and the Public Lecture System, 1840-1860." Most of the essays were originally prepared for an October 1980 conference of the same title sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society.
Price: $ 37.50 other currencies Order nr. 14220

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Keller, Kate Van Winkle. PRINTERS OF BALLADS, BOOKS, AND NEWSPAPERS: BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES AND CHECKLISTS FOR NATHANIEL COVERLY, SR., NATHANIEL COVERLY, JR., AND JOSEPH WHITE.
Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society Volume 117 Worcester American Antiquarian Society 2008 6 x 9 inches paperback 162 pages
The topic of this new book from the American Antiquarian Society is printing in New England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. More specifically, the author focuses on three printers who were active during that period: Nathaniel Coverly, Sr.; Nathaniel Coverly, Jr.; and Joseph White. Through a close examination of the bibliographical evidence, she demonstrates the extent of the production by the two Coverlys and White to the reading material available to adults and children in New England over more than fifty years.
The introduction provides a brief historical summary and an outline of the text that follows. Biographical descriptions of the Coverlys and Joseph White, as well as checklists of their works are included. There are approximately twenty grayscale images throughout the text. An index makes quick referencing possible. Distributed for the American Antiquarian Society.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 100615

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Kennedy, Rick, Lucia Zaucha Knoles and Thomas Knoles STUDENT NOTEBOOKS AT COLONIAL HARVARD: MANUSCRIPTS AND EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE, 1650-1740.
Worcester American Antiquarian Society 2003 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 228 pages.
Four studies relating to student manuscript production at Harvard College before 1740 that first appeared in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society (Volume 109) are printed here. '" In Usum Pupillorum": Student-Transcribed Texts at Harvard College Before 1740' by Thomas Knoles and Lucia Zaucha Knoles describes a Harvard education during the college's first hundred years, when many of the texts used in instruction were manuscripts and were transmitted in manuscript form only. In 'Increase Mather's "Catechismus Logicus": An Analysis of the Role of a Ramist Catechism,' Rick Kennedy and Thomas Knoles describe the brief Latin logic catechism that was produced in 1675 for the use of undergraduates at Harvard College. Intended for students to copy into their blank books, the work exemplifies the kind of rudimentary Ramist textbook used in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century New England. 'Increase Mather's "Catechismus Logicus'" is these authors' edited and annotated translation of the 1675 manuscript. 'Student-Transcribed Text at Harvard College Before 1 740: A Checklist' is a list of all known surviving manuscript notebooks containing manuscript transcriptions with indexes of texts and their transcribers that was prepared by Thomas Knoles.
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Mather, Cotton ANGEL OF BETHESDA, AN ESSAY
Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Gordon W. Jones, M.D. Barre American Antiquarian Society and Barre Publications 1972 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xl, 384 pages.
First edition. First appearance in print of this early Mather manuscript on medicine.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 42176

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McCusker, John J. HOW MUCH IS THAT IN REAL MONEY? A HISTORICAL PRICE INDEX FOR USE AS A DEFLATOR OF MONEY VALUES IN THE ECONOMY OF THE UNITED STATES.
Worcester American Antiquarian Society 2001 6 x 9 inches stiff paper wrappers. 132 pages.
Revised edition. The well-known economic historian John J. McCusker, the author of Money and Exchange in Europe and America, 1600-1775: A Handbook (2nd ed. Chapel Hill, 1992), has compiled a new edition of his noted vade mecum for use by researchers, teachers, and students in converting prices from any time in the American past as far back as 1665 to their comparable value in today's dollars.
This monograph presents a consistent commodity price index that extends across as much as possible of the history of the United States. McCusker's clear introduction discusses the theory and practice behind the construction of historical price indexes, points out their uses and limitations, and provides step-by-step instructions (and some examples) to making the conversion from past prices, even those expressed in colonial currency, to today's values. In addition to supplying consumer price index tables for the United States since 1665, McCusker's work also includes comparable tables for Great Britain going back to 1600, making a valuable reference work even more useful. He also explains how users may keep this reference tool current by obtaining the monthly and annual consumer price index figures provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the comparable agency in the United Kingdom. The work is rounded out by a comprehensive bibliography of sources on historical prices and related subjects, allowing interested readers to pursue the subject matter.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 62020

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McDonald, Gerald, Stuart C. Sherman And A CHECKLIST OF AMERICAN NEWSPAPER CARRIERS' ADDRESSES, 1720-1820.
Worcester American Antiquarian Society 2000 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 170 pages.
First edition. The newspaper carrier's address, a printed holiday greeting, was a unique early American poetic form. Each New Year's Day, newspaper carriers around America and Canada distributed printed verses to their customers in hope of a hefty tip. Often highly amusing and occasionally quite socially aware, these broadsides eulogized the dutiful carrier of the year gone by. For the first time, these addresses have been compiled in bibliographic form. Some of America's most prominent men of letters, such as Benjamin Franklin and Daniel Webster, supplied the poetic addresses. 940 American and 61 Canadian addresses are indexed here.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 59170

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(Music) Britton, Allen Perdue and Irving Lowens AMERICAN SACRED MUSIC IMPRINTS 1698-1810: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Worcester American Antiquarian Society 1990 thick small 4to. cloth. xvi, 798 pages.
First edition. With a preface by Crawford, this bibliography describes over 545 items related to American sacred music. Includes five appendices on chronologically listed imprints; sacred sheet music; composers and sources; the core repertory; and a geographical directory of engravers, printers, publishers, and booksellers. Indexed. Distributed for the American Antiquarian Society.
Price: $ 160.00 other currencies Order nr. 42173

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