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The Manuscript of Jefferson's Unpublished Errata List for Abbé Morellet's Translation of the Notes on Virginia by Joseph M. Carrière
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Some Correspondence with Thomas Jefferson Concerning the Public Printers Transcribed, with a Foreword, by Jessie Ryon Lucke
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In The Savoy: A Study in Post-Restoration Imprints by C. William Miller
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Three Shakespeare Piracies in the Eighteenth Century by Giles E. Dawson
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The Compositor of the "Pied Bull" Lear by Philip Williams
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The First Five Bookes of Ovid's Metamorphosis, 1621, Englished by James G. McManaway
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The Art of Selling Books: Notes on three Aldus Catalogues, 1586-1592 by Rudolf Hirsch
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The Text of Chaucer's Purse by George B. Pace
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The Headlines of William de Machlinia's Year-Book, 37 Henry VI by Curt F. Bühler
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Sir John Davies' Nosce Teipsum, 1599: A Bibliographical Puzzle by Gerald J. Eberle
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New Uses of Watermarks As Bibliographical Evidence by Allan H. Stevenson
  
A St. Memin Plate, With Some Notes on Other St. Memin Portraits Fillmore Norfleet
  
A Bibliographical Note from the Beaumont and Fletcher First Folio Guy A. Battle
  
Center Rules in Folio Printing: A New Kind of Bibliographical Evidence James S. Steck
  
Textual Revision in Crashaw's "Vpon the Bleeding Crvcifix" George W. Williams
  
The Hallam-Tennyson POEMS (1830) Mary Virginia Bowman
  
Running-Title Evidence for Determining Half-Sheet Imposition Fredson Bowers

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Philada August 15th 1790
Dear Sir

I could not resist the Solicitations of Mr Brown, to furnish him with a Letter to you expressive of the Circumstances on which he founds his Pretensions to your Patronage of his Views,—which are to procure the Preference in printing the Laws of the United States—

Mr Brown has served during the War, & I am informed had considerable Merit in the discharge of his Duty as an officer—As a Printer, he is very industrious & correct, & has supported a daily Paper with considerable Reputation—

Permit me to embrace this opportunity of joining Mrs; Bingham's Complements with mine, & of assuring you that I am with unfeigned Respect

Sir Your obedt hble servt
Wm Bingham
[On the back: 'Bingham W.m 15 Aug.t 1790 | rec.d Aug. 26'in Jefferson's hand except for '15 Aug.t 1790'.]
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