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Page 350 - An Account of the Visit of His Royal Highness The Prince Regent, and their Imperial and Royal Majesties the Empertrr of Russia and the King-ofPruss\a, to the University of Oxford, in June 1814.
Page 53 - Green, under government, was the manager of it. He was printer to the college as long as he continued in business. Soon after his decease, the printing materials were removed from Cambridge and probably sold. It does not appear that the corporation of the college owned any types after this time till about the year 1718, when Mr. Thomas Hollis, of London, a great benefactor to the college, among other gifts, presented to the university a fount, or cast, of Hebrew, and another of Greek types, both...
Page 50 - America which extends from the Gulf of Mexico to the frozen ocean. For this press our country is chiefly indebted to the Rev. Mr. Glover, a nonconformist minister, who possessed a considerable estate, and had left his native country with a determination to settle among his friends, who had emigrated to Massachusetts: because in this wilderness, he could freely enjoy, with them, those opinions which were not countenanced by the government and a majority of the people in England. Another press, with...
Page 38 - Choice Pennsylvania Tobacco Paper, to be Sold by the Publisher of this Paper, at the Heart & Crown ; where may also be had the BULLS or Indulgences of the present Pope Urban VIII, either by the single Bull, Quire or Ream, at a much cheaper Rate than they can be purchased of the French or Spanish Priests, and yet will be warranted to be of the same Advantage to the Possessors.
Page 51 - I, p. 32, and 345. there than in all the other colonies. After 1760, the quantum of printing done in Boston and Philadelphia was nearly equal, till the commencement of the war. New York produced some octavo and duodecimo volumes. The presses of Connecticut were not idle ; they furnished many pamphlets on various subjects, and some small volumes. Some books were handsomely printed in Virginia and Maryland ; and folio volumes of laws, and a few octavos and duodecimos, on religion, history and politics,...
Page 327 - Gardiner and The Seconde Course of the Hunter at the romishe fox and hys advocate and sworne patrone Steven Gardiner; for this is dated in March 1545, and published as from Winchester 'by me Hanse hit prik'.
Page 51 - ... New London, in Connecticut; and, from this period, it was gradually introduced into the other colonies; as well as into several of the "West India islands, belonging to Great Britain. In 1775 the whole number of printing houses in the British colonies, now comprising the United States, was fifty. Till the year 1760, it appears that more books were printed in Massachusetts, annually, than in any of the other colonies; and, before 1740, more printing was done there than in all the other colonies.
Page 322 - ... country animated him to redoubled diligence. The printing he executed at Watertown, did not, indeed, do much credit to the art ; but the work, at this time, done at other presses, was not greatly superior. The war broke out suddenly, and few of any profession were prepared for the event. All kinds of printing materials had usually been imported from England; even ink for printers had not, in any great quantity, been made in America. This resource was, by the war, cut off; and a great scarcity...
Page 51 - In a short time, this law was so far repealed as to permit the use of a press at Boston, and a person was authorized to conduct it ; subject, however, to the licensers who were appointed for the purpose of inspecting it. It does not appear that the press, in Massachusetts, was free from legal restraints till about the year 1755. Hoiyoke's Almanack, for 1715, has, in the title page, "Imprimatur, J. Dudley.
Page 38 - Bulls, or indulgences, of his holiness, were printed on the face of a small sheet} several bales of them were taken in a Spanish ship, captured by an English Cruiser, and sent into Boston during the war between England and France and Spain, in 1748. I have one of them now in my possession. Fleet purchased a very large quantity at a low price, and printed various editions of ballads on the backs of them. One side of the sheet was blank, and the paper very good } one bull answered for two half sheet...