Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . ew Testaments with the Bookof the Apocrypha, illustrated with notes,&c. By John Brown, Late Minis-ter of the Gospel at Haddington, . .will be printed in large folio on finepaper, American manufacture, and on ex-cellent, large and new type cast on pur-pose for this work. It will be completed in forty numbers,one every two weeks, price One Quarterof a Dollar or Twenty-five Cents. Quite as creditable to its author, andbelonging to the same period as the bind-ing above mentioned, is the one uponWashingtons own copy of The Contrast(Philadelphia,

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Early America bookbinding and kindred subjects . ew Testaments with the Bookof the Apocrypha, illustrated with notes,&c. By John Brown, Late Minis-ter of the Gospel at Haddington, . .will be printed in large folio on finepaper, American manufacture, and on ex-cellent, large and new type cast on pur-pose for this work. It will be completed in forty numbers,one every two weeks, price One Quarterof a Dollar or Twenty-five Cents. Quite as creditable to its author, andbelonging to the same period as the bind-ing above mentioned, is the one uponWashingtons own copy of The Contrast(Philadelphia, mdccxc), a comedy writ-ten by Royal Tyler,* of Vermont, for *Thr Contrast was written by Royal Tylerof Vermont for Thomas Wignell, the come-dian, by whom it was produced with consider-able success in New York. Philadelphia andBaltimore. He took the part of Jonathan,written expressly for him, and a much moreaccurate representation of a real Yankee thanany of the modern caricatures. It was pub-lished for subscribers only. . Royal Tyler.

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