CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF PRINTERS IN PENNSYLVANIA BEFORE 1785.

Publishers, whose names appear in the imprints of works described in the following pages, but who were never proprietors of a press, are included in this list and marked with an asterisk (*).

EXPLANATORY.

The initials which precede the numbers of the titles refer to the several public libraries in which the works described can be found.

A. A. S. signifies American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.

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The works so frequently cited in these pages as "Haven's List,' sticker's Bibliography," and "Weller's Falschen Druckorte are: Catalogue of Publications in what is now the United States prior to the Revolution of 1775-6 [ By S. F. Haven, Jr.]. Appended to the second edition of Thomas' History of Printing, published by the American Antiquarian Society in 1874. Deutsch-americanische Bibliographie bis zum Schlusse des letzten Jahrhunderts. Von Dr. Oswald Seidensticker. Published in Der Deutsche Pionier Volumes VIII to XII.

Die Falschen und fingerten Druckorte. Von Emil Weller. Leipzig, 1864.

. . . . | indicate that one or more lines have been omitted. These omissions are either quotations or lines worded and spaced precisely as in some title previously printed.

[] include words or dates which are not on the title page. When brackets [ ] occur in a title they are represented thus ( ).

[n. p. n. d.] means no place, no date.

The size of every work described is given in accordance with the number of pages to the signature.

pp. means pages.

1 leaf means that only one side is printed upon and that the other page is blank. () are used to indicate pages not numbered by the printer. Thus: Half-title, 1 leaf; Title, 1 leaf; Dedication, pp. (2); Preface, pp. i-ix; text, pp. 1–506; Appendix, pp. (15); Index, pp. 1-26; Errata, 1 leaf," means that a short title occupies the first page and that the next page is blank, that this is followed by the full title which occupies a page and that the next is blank. The dedication which follows the full title occupies one leaf both sides of which are printed upon but are not numbered. The preface which follows the dedication fills nine pages, the first of which may or may not be numbered i, but the second and subsequent pages of which are numbered ii to ix. Then follows the work called for by the title page, the pages of which are numbered 1 to 506. To this is added an appendix of eight unnumbered leaves of which the first seven are printed on both sides and the eighth on one side only. The index consists of thirteen leaves printed on both sides and paged 1 to 26, and an unpaged leaf of errata printed on one side only is added. + following the number of pages indicate that the only copy met with is imperfect.

+following the number of pages indicate that the title omitted is precisely similar to that just given, any variation being given immediately after the .+ ? following the place of publication implies a doubt as to whether the work mentioned was printed in that place; following the name of the printer, as to its having come from his press; and following the date, as to the year given being correct.

The use of "sic" has been in most cases avoided, and such typographical errors as appear in the titles it is hoped will be generally found to have been reproduced from the originals.