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AMERICAN TYPOGRAPHIC RARITY
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Ein Geistliches Magazien. Numbers 1-50 from the first series [complete]; plus 3 issues from the second series (Numbers 9, 10 and 12, bound out of order). 8vo, contemporary sheep, defective; trimmed close, foxing and staining; early owners's signatures and ink notations. Germantown: Sower, 1764-72
- Notes: Scarce early religious magazine, with the first 50 issues printed in 1764, followed by scattered issues from 1770-72. It is a work of some importance as it contains the first German type produced in America in issue number 12 of the second series (though claiming to be printed with the first type ever cast in America). According to Wroth, "the foreign type-face employed in its printing and the fact that its letters were cast from imported matrices and moulds render it a document of secondary importance in an inquiry devoted to the origins of native type founding" (Wroth, The First Work with American Types, page 132, in Bibliographical Essays: A Tribute to Wilberforce Eames.) According to Wroth, only one other copy of Number 12 exists, located at the Typographic Library and Museum of the American Type Founders Co. Evans 9676; Annenberg, Type Foundries of America, page 26. with -- Der Kleine Catechismus des sel. D. Martin Luthers. 12mo, contemporary 1/4 calf, lacking most of the pastepaper. Evans 34024. Philadelphia: Schweitzer, 1798.
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