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Proofreading Lockhart's Scott: The Dynamics of Biographical Reticence by Francis Russell Hart
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The Shares of Fletcher and his Collaborators in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon (VI) by Cyrus Hoy
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Literary Problems in Seventeenth-Century Scientific Manuscripts by H. W. Jones
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Scottish Printers and Booksellers 1668-1775: A Second Supplement (I) by Robert Hay Carnie
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Franklin's Poor Richard Almanacs: Their Printing and Publication by C. William Miller
  
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Jefferson as Collector of Virginiana by Richard Beale Davis
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The Amazing Career of Andrew Barclay, Scottish Bookbinder, of Boston by Hannah D. French
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Contributors to the American Quarterly Review, 1827-1833 by Ralph M. Aderman
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Agent and Author: Ellen Glasgow's Letters to Paul Revere Reynolds by James B. Colvert
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THE Grammaticæ Artis Institutio of Joannes Susenbrotus: A Bibliographical Note by Joseph X. Brennan
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Thomas Taylor's Biography by G. E. Bentley, Jr.
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Unrecorded Coleridge Variants: Additions and Corrections by David V. Erdman, Lucyle Werkmeister, and R. S. Woof
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Elizabeth Barrett and R. Shelton MacKenzie by David Bonnell Green
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Elias Burling, A Call to Back-Sliding Israel, New York, 1694: An Unrecorded Tract Printed by William Bradford by A. N. L. Munby
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Notes

[*]

I am indebted to the Research Committees of Temple University and the American Philosophical Society for grants to pursue this investigation.

[1]

Benjamin Franklin's Memoirs, Parallel. Text Edition, ed. Max Farrand (1949), p. 242.

[2]

For this statistical information and that on the earlier Poor Richards I owe thanks to Miss Dorothy W. Bridgewater of the Yale University Library.

[3]

Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing, ed. Herbert Davis and Harry Carter (1958), p. 292.

[4]

John Clyde Oswald, Benjamin Franklin Printer (1926), p. 93.

[5]

Ibid., p. 143.

[6]

Account Books (Ledgers A and B, 1728-1737), ed. George Simpson Eddy (1928); Account Books (Ledger D, 1739-1747), ed. G. S. Eddy (1929). Cited hereafter as FAB I and FAB II respectively.

[7]

Historical Society of Pennsylvania Franklin Papers: Accounts Franklin-Hall, 1747-1766 (folio sheet bound as separate volume). Cited hereafter as AFH.

[8]

The Ames almanac carries the price per copy on the title-page. See Rollo G. Silver, "Publishing in Boston, 1726-1757: The Accounts of Daniel Henchman," PAAS (1956), pp. 33-36, where Draper's wholesale price for printing 8000 copies of the Ames almanac rises from £35 in 1741 to £66 in 1747.

[*]

Conjectured price.

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