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Notes
This study was prepared with the assistance of a grant from the Research Council of the Richmond Area University Center.
For details of the life of Mathew Carey see: L. Bradsher, Mathew Carey, editor, author, and publisher (1912).
A complete copy should collate 8°, A2 B-Uu4, with map in front and a half sheet inserted table of Indian Tribes after S3.
These faces were cut by Isaac Moore, who had been an apprentice to Baskerville (thus the Baskerville characteristics—especially noticeable in the italic Q and J).
Note from Parry Hall to Thomas Jefferson, 25 July 1793, in the Jefferson Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society. The proof sheet accompanying this note has not been found among the Jefferson Papers and one may presume that Jefferson corrected and returned it to the printer.
These letters may be found as follows: (A)—p. 21; (B)—p. 24. In the Appendix containing Thomson's Notes to which they refer, numerals are used in lieu of letters for (A), p. 293, and (B), p. 294, with (B) being misnumbered (1).
In addition to this use of upper-case letters there are errors on P2v (p. 108) and P4v (p. 112) of incorrect totals: "106" for "109" on p. 108, and "21" for "421" on p. 112. For a full listing of subsequent editions containing these errors see Coolie Verner, A Further Checklist of the Separate Editions of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia. Charlottesville: The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1950.
Mr. Nicholas Wainwright of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania found this data on page 137 of the second impression of John Beale Bordley's Yellow Fever. [Philadelphia, 1794 (?)]
See: Coolie Verner, "Some Observations on the Philadelphia 1794 Edition of Jefferson's Notes," Studies in Bibliography, II (1950), 201-204.
In addition, the spellings "Missisipi" and "Erié" in Hall's run, as opposed to "Mississippi" (generally, though the word occurs twice on p. 1, once "Mississipi") and "Erie" on the thick paper. In the first state B1v, lines 1 and 5, the degree marks are superior figures, whereas in the second state they are made from broken eights. Much of the thin paper is also water-marked A L MASSO, but some is also unwater-marked.
The bound signatures are in 4's, i.e., four leaves or eight pages each. If the book had been printed "sheetwise", that is, four pages to the inner and four pages to the outer formes, 86 separate formes would have been required to produce it. By printing in a "work and turn" method however, only 43 formes are required and this method also yields 8-page signatures.
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