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- (Circular.) Sir, You will excuse the liberty I take in sending you the prospectus of a new work on ancient geography, with the first part of the same. : With your permission, as the work progresses through the press, I will send you two or more sheets till the copy is complete, that you may have every means to judge of its execution. ...
- Boston, May 1745. Proposals for printing by subscription, in one volume octavo, containing about twenty two sheets, some familiar letters to a gentleman, by the Rev. Mr. Jonathan Dickinson, : on a variety of seasonable and important subjects in religion: ... The price to subscribers shall be 5 s. New Tenor bound in calf, and 4 s. in sheep. Those who subscribe for six shall have a seventh gratis. As soon as a competent number of subscribers offer, the work shall be put to the press, and published will all expedition.
- Boston, September 15, 1796. An entire new work. : Proposals for publishing by subscription, a repository of useful knowledge, most respectfully inscribed to the citizens of the United States, and all promoters of religious and moral virtues, entitled A vindication of the Bible. By Rowland Cotton. Conditions. I. This work shall be compleated in twelve numbers, octavo, printed on good paper and new type. II. Each number will contain fifty-six pages of letter-press, and an elegant copper-plate. III. They shall be delivered to subscribers once a fortnight, at a quarter of a dollar each number, to be paid for on delivery. IV. Whoever procures eight subscribers will be entitled to the seventh copy gratis. ...
- Dr. Abercrombie's edition of Johnson's works. : Proposals by J. & A.Y. Humphreys, Philadelphia, for publishing by subscription, the works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. containing a more complete collection of his writings than has ever yet been published; together with a selection of the most meritorious publications illustrative of his domestick and literary character:
- Philadelphia, January 2, 1804. Elegant family Bible, with a revised and much-improved edition of Brown's concordance. : Proposals by Mathew Carey, for publishing by subscription, a fourth edition of the Bible, in quarto, ... Terms. I. It is now at press, and will be published in the month of May next. ...
- Philadelphia, Nov. 1807. William W. Woodward, No. 52, corner of Second and Chesnut-Streets, will put to press in a short time, the Miscellaneous works of the Rev. Charles Buck, ...
- Proposal for publishing by subscription, a new work, entitled Persecution not peculiar to Roman Catholics: : or, An attempt to prove that the Reformation has not been unattended by fines, forfeitures, banishments, imprisonments, whippings, dismemberments, hangings, embowellings, quarterings, beheadings, and burnings, in England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, the United Provinces, Switzerland, and America.
- Proposals for printing by subscription, a body of sermons, upon the most important branches of practical Christianity.
- Proposals for publishing, by subscription, The religious olive branch, or, Faults on nearly all sides. : Establishing, by incontrovertible historical evidence, that the hideous crime, religious persecution, has been perpetrated by nearly all denominations of Christians when possessed of power.
- Proposals of Mason L. Weems, Dumfries, for publishing by subscription, The life of George Washington, with curious anecdotes, equally honourable to himself and exemplary to his young countrymen. : Seventh edition greatly improved. By M.L. Weems, formerly rector of Mount-Vernon parish.
- Proposals, for printing in a neat pocket volume, handsomely bound and gilt with gold on the back, Regulations, for the order and discipline of the troops of the United States. : Conditions. This book will be printed with a new type---on good paper, of the size of a crown duodecimo, and will contain about 160 pages, adorned with eight elegant copper-plates. The price to the subscribers will be only six shillings each. They who subscribe for six shall have a seventh gratis---and they who subscribe for one hundred shall have twenty-five gratis. It will be put to press as soon as 300 are subscribed for, and finished in about six weeks from said time. Subscriptions are taken in by Mess. Thomas and Samuel Green, printers in New-Haven; Mr. John Trumbull, printer Norwich; Mess. Babcock and Haswell, printers, Springfield; Mess. Balentine and Webster, printers, Albany; Mess. Willis and Wight, Mr Robert Hodge, Mr. Nathaniel Coverly, printers, Boston; Mr. William Green, Mr. Benjamin Larkin, book-binders, Boston; Mr. Bavil Webster, printer, and the subscriber, Hartford; and by a number of gentlemen in several of the United States.
- Sir, I take the liberty to inform you that I intend shortly to put to press a large edition of the common quarto Bible with the Apocrypha, : to be published on the 1st of October, on the following terms to the trade: for 50 copies, 200 cents each, in sheets. 100 do. 175 cents each, do. Three months credit allowed, on note. Those who subscribe for one hundred copies, shall have their names in the imprint. Those who prefer them bound, shall have them in that state, lettered and filleted, for 75 cents each additional. The engravings, 30 in number, which are used for these coarse copies, may be had for 62 1-2 cents each set. with them the Bible is sold for 525 cents. ...
- The first American edition of that scarce and much admired performance, the poetical works of the celebrated Allan Ramsay; : with the beautiful poem of Christ's kirk on the green; by King James the First: enlarged and explained by the author of these poems; also Lieutenant Hamilton's Epistles to Ramsay. Conditions. The work will be published in one large duodecimo volume, --printed on superior paper and good type. It shall be delivered to subscribers at $1 25 in boards:-- or $1 50 bound, payable on delivery. As soon as a sufficient number of subscribers are obtained, it shall be put to press, and finished with all convenient speed. Subscribers' names. Residence. Number of copies.
- Worcester, March 25, 1793. Proposal, for printing by subscription, in six volumes, 12mo. bound and lettered, The whole and genuine works of Flavius Josephus, : translated from the original Greek, according to Havercamp's accurate edition. ... Together with large notes, proper observations, and an index. To which are prefixed, three dissertations, ... With a table of Jewish coins, weights, and measures. In six volumes. By William Whiston, ... Conditions. I. The work shall be well and handsomely printed on good paper, with a good type, in 6 vols. 12mo. II. The price to subscribers shall be twenty seven shillings, bound and lettered; only four shillings and six pence a volume. III. Those who subscribe for six sets, shall have a seventh gratis. ...
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