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The present note is essentially a statement of work in progress. As such, exhaustive documentation has not been attempted.

See Lawrence C. Wroth's Abel Buell of Connecticut, [New Haven], 1926.

For fuller accounts of John Mein, see my "John Mein, Publisher: An Essay in Bibliographic Detection," in the Papers Bibl. Soc. America, XXXVI (1942), 199-214, and "John Mein: Scourage of Patriots", in the Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, XXXIV (1943), 571-99. In each, references will be found for most of the statements here made.

See the reproduction of the broadside Specimen of Mein and Fleeming's Printing Types, of ca. 1768, plate XIV, facing p. 102, in Mr. Wroth's The Colonial Printer (1938).

Reproduced by Douglas C. McMurtrie, A History of Printing in the United States (1936), II, 288.

See my "A Note on Tissot's 'Advice to the People'. London, 1767," Papers Bibl. Soc. America, XXXIV (1940), 262-66.

I am indebted to Mr. Conkwright for much of this information, but any weaknesses of interpretation are mine.