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Notes
Theodore L. De Vinne, The Practice of Typography . . . Plain Printing Types (1900), pp. 104, 212-214.
"History of the Boston Type Foundry," Printer's Bulletin, June, 1867, extra number, p. 1; Steve L. Watts, "The Pelouze Family of Typefounders," PaGA, 4 (1956), 31.
S. N. Dickinson to Elihu Geer, 16 March 1847 (Extracts from the Geer letters are printed with permission of the American Antiquarian Society).
The Boston Directory (1825), p. 199; [Boston] Columbian Centinel, 1 Sept. 1830; "History of the Boston Type Foundry," p. 1.
Boston Daily Advertiser, 1 Jan. 1829; Joel Munsell, "Chronological Record of Printing" (manuscript at the American Antiquarian Society), II, 121.
S. N. Dickinson, The Boston Almanac . . . 1839, p. 36. When awarded a silver medal for the press in 1839, Dickinson was commended "for the valuable improvements which he has made on the original patent" (The Second Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 1839, p. 87).
S. N. Dickinson to Elihu Geer, 24 June 1841. The advertisements stated that the Yankee Card Press had been in use for about two months (Boston Morning Post, 29 June 1841; Boston Daily Times, 10 July 1841). An advertisement probably also appeared in the Boston Daily Mail.
The Third Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association (1841), p. 120. In the same catalogue, an interesting comment on printer-publisher relations appears in the report on The Token for 1842, printed by Dickinson: "The publisher is entitled to credit for his style of 'getting up' this work, so far as the paper and binding are concerned; but the Committee think, if he had left the selection of the type to his printer, (who, probably, would not have chosen a brevier type,) a better executed volume could have been produced. The printing is very good; as good, probably, as can be done on such a type; but is not equal to the English Annuals. American printing ought now to equal the English; and if our publishers will give their printers the selection of materials, there is no reason why it should not" (p. 118).
Francis N. Mitchell received silver medals for his own displays in 1841 and 1844 (The Third Exhibition, p. 89; The Fourth Exhibition, pp. 27, 142).
The books printed for Ticknor are listed in Warren S. Tryon and William Charvat, eds., The Cost Books of Ticknor and Fields (1949), pp. 449-52; for Crocker & Brewster, he printed Jacob Ide, ed., The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D. D. in 1842.
[Boston] Daily Evening Transcript, 2 April 1845. An obituary of Charles C. P. Moody (1809-1869), printer and newspaper publisher, appears in the Malden Messenger, 6 Nov. 1869 (letter from Ms. Dina G. Malgeri, Malden [Mass.] Public Library, 20 Nov. 1972).
A Votary, The Poetry of Printing (1842), p. [3]; New England Puritan, 4 Aug. 1842; Rollo G. Silver, "The Dickinson Shop in Prose and Verse," Printing Art, 1 (1974), 2-9. Biographical information about George Coolidge (d. 1888) is in Annals of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association (1892), pp. 502-3.
Daily Evening Transcript, 14 Sept. 1847. Biographical information about William S. Damrell (1809-1860) is in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1971 (1971), p. 821. Biographical information about Francis C. Moore (1820-1869) is in Annals of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association (1892), p. 139.
Hand-Book Specimen of Printing Type . . . from the Foundry of Samuel N. Dickinson (1847), title page.
Printers' Bulletin, Autumn, 1882, p. 1 Biographical information about Michael Dalton (1800-1879) is in Annals of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association (1892), pp. 262-263.
New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 2 (1848), 325; Boston Evening Transcript, 30 Aug. 1884.
Biographical information about Sewell Phelps (1797-1864) is in Annals of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association (1892), p. 74.
De Vinne, The Practice of Typography, p. 104; Henry Lewis Bullen, Duplicates of Type Specimen Books (1934), p. 19.
The picture of the printing office is on the front end-paper of the 1842 Boston Almanac; the description of the printing office is in the 1846 Boston Almanac, p. 148.
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