Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . ive scholars and authors. At theperiod of the Revo-lution, books werefew in variety andnumber. The largerportion of them weredevoted to theolog-ical subjects. Book-sellers were few, andwere found only inthe larger subjects were discussed inpamphlets, not gen-erally in newspapers, as now. The editions of books were small, and as stereo-typing was unknown, they became rare in a few years, because there was only acostly way of reproduction. THE PUBLISHING WORK. • In the year 1801,
Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . ive scholars and authors. At theperiod of the Revo-lution, books werefew in variety andnumber. The largerportion of them weredevoted to theolog-ical subjects. Book-sellers were few, andwere found only inthe larger subjects were discussed inpamphlets, not gen-erally in newspapers, as now. The editions of books were small, and as stereo-typing was unknown, they became rare in a few years, because there was only acostly way of reproduction. THE PUBLISHING WORK. • In the year 1801, a new impetus was given to the book trade by the forma-tion of the American Company of Booksellers — a kind of union. Twentyyears later, competition broke up the association. Before the war of 1812, thebook trade in the United States was small. Only schoolbooks had very largesales. Websters spelling-book was an example of the increasing demand forsuch helps to education. During the twenty years he was engaged on hisdictionary, the income from his spelling-book supported him and his family. It. Cortespondence School and Proposed Printery, Pennsylvania
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