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Pioneer Imprints from Fifty States / Roger J. Trienens
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REF.PM.1322
87 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
1973
Imprints
From Preface: "Pioneer Imprints from Fifty States will enable readers to view the Library of Congress collections from an unaccustomed angle. It takes for its subject the Library's earliest examples of printing from within present-day boundaries of each State in the Union, providing for each in turn 1) a brief statement about the origin of printing; 2) identification of the Library's earliest examples -- among them broadsides, newspapers, individual laws, almanacs, primers, and longer works; and 3) information, if available, about the provenance of these rarities...To those who read it through, however, Pioneer Imprints will give some idea of the movement of printers and presses across the Nation, as well as insight into the nature and history of the Library's holdings."
Includes typed letter reading: "Dear Don, On Behalf of the Board of Directors and members of the Typographers Association of New York, I want to say 'Thank you' and wish you 'Season's Greetings', a very happy, healthy and prosperous 1978. Sincerely, Leo John Link, President"