John Peter Zenger. His press, his trial and abibliography of Zenger imprints

321 Pages·1904·11.845 MB·English

by  Livingston Rutherford

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JOHN PETER ZENGER

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Peter Zenger
His Press, His Trial
AND
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ZENGER
IMPRINTS
BY
LIVINGSTON RUTHERFURD
ALSO
A
Reprint ofthe First
Edition of the Trial
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
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Copyright, 1904, by
DoDD, Mead & Company
TO
C. S. F. S.
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
The Publishers make grateful acknowledgment to the New York
Public Library for permission to copy the portraits of Rip
Van Dam and Lewis Morris and to make use of its valu-
able collection of Zenger imprints; to the Pennsyl-
vania Historical Society for permission to copy
the portrait of Andrew Hamilton, repro-
duced as frontispiece ; and to other
persons and public libraries for
theirassistanceintheprepa-
rationofthebibliogra-
phyofthe issues
oftheZeng-
erPress
PREFACE
HILE
the events herein related are,
perhaps, not as generally known as
they should be, nevertheless, consti-
tuting as they do the earliest warning
of the coming Revolution, they are
of interest and importance in the study of the de-
velopment of the Nation.
The editor wishes to state that he is under great
obligations to the late Paul Leicester Ford for the
loan of Charles R. Hildeburn's notes, which form the
basis of the Bibliography of the different Zenger
presses, and to Miss Robinson, of the American Anti-
quarian Society Mr. Eames, of the New York Pub-
;
lic Library, and Mr. Kelby, of the New York His-
torical Society.
The following abbreviations have been used in
the Bibliography
:
B.M. British Museum.
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