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Fall 2012 Catalogue 21
The American Antiquarian Society
1812–2012
A Bicentennial History
by Philip F. Gura
Over the past two centuries, this learned society has become widely
recognized as a national treasure. Published on the occasion of the Society’s
bicentennial, this unique, illustrated history is scholarly in purpose, rich
in probing insight, and brimming with narrative detail. This volume traces
the development of the American Antiquarian Society library and the role
its librarians have played as collectors, scholars of American writing and
publishing, and stewards of the nation’s history. Readers will meet founder
Isaiah Thomas and his successors at the Society’s helm. Each has moved the
Society forward by deftly matching the institution’s needs with local and
national developments. The author’s guiding approach is finely focused on
the Society’s 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.
2012, hardcover, dust jacket, 6.75 x 10 inches, 454 pages
ISBN 9781929545650, Order No. 108979, $60.00
Printing in New Jersey 1754–1800
A Descriptive Bibliography
by Joseph J. Felcone
Printing in New Jersey is a descriptive bibliography of all known
publications produced by every eighteenth-century New Jersey
press. Also included are works incorrectly attributed to a New
Jersey press by earlier bibliographers and items that may have been
printed in New Jersey but for which insufficient documentation has
been found to permit clear attribution to a New Jersey press. 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 newspaper advertisements are recorded.
Every located copy has been collated, and full copy-specific data is
presented. Extensive notes identify anonymous authors, provide biographical
and historical contexts, attribute unsigned printings, and
establish press runs. The first appendix lists the distribution of printing
offices in eighteenth-century New Jersey. Another is a register of
the New Jersey book trade that records printers, publishers, booksellers,
and others engaged in any aspect of the book trade in New
Jersey from 1754 through 1800. Printing in New Jersey concludes
with three indexes: an index of printers and publishers, an index of
provenance, and a comprehensive general index.
2012, hardcover, dust jacket, 8.5 x 11 inches, 544 pages
ISBN 9781929545667, Order No. 108913, $125.00
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