| Description |
1 online resource (170 pages) : facsimiles |
| Series |
Publication of the A.S.W. Rosenbach fellowship in bibliography.
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| Contents |
1. Novus ordo seclorum: American public documents and the book collector ... and the historian ... and the bibliographer ... The career of A.W. Greely ... The ten publications of the First Continental Congress ... The July 5, 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence, and certain issues concerning it -- 2. E pluribus unum: Printed issues of The Congressional Convention of 1787 ... Retrospective view of Congress printing, 1776-1789, as precedents for the new government ... The printers and their contracts ... Certain publications particularly considered ... Von Steuben's Discipline of the troops ... The new government draws up its printing contracts ... The Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate ... Printing history of the government while in New York ... in Philadelphia ... Expansion of printing activities in the late 1790's ... Summary of practices and conditions in the year 1800 -- 3. Annuit coeptis: Publication problems raised by the government's move to Washington City ... Printers in the new capital ... Question of the first Washington government imprint ... Sketch of Samuel Allyne Otis, Secretary of the Senate ... His relations with William Duane ... John Beckley, Clerk of the House ... Roger Chew Weightman succeeds to the Senate printing ... Otis and Weightman : an era in government printing ... Issues and problems before the reconstruction of the city and the government after 1816 |
| Summary |
In this volume, collectors will find many ""firsts"" in public documents, bibliographers will discover unknown chapters in the history of printing in America, and historians will be challenged by the new points of view government publications suggest for interpreting national history |
| Notes |
"The A.S.W. Rosenbach fellowship in bibliography." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed September 22, 2015) |
| Subject |
Government publications -- United States.
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Government publications
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
bibliographies.
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Bibliographies
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Bibliographies.
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Bibliographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781512805833 |
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1512805831 |
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