Re: Lynchester

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Scott Denlinger writes:

> Lynchester as a variant of Lancaster, Pa. is probably not correct. 
> B"otte's and Tannhof's _First Century of German Language Printing in the
> U.S.A._ lists no 1766 imprint in the U.S. for a printer named Martin
> Messner, and only 1 imprint from Lancaster County for 1766:  an Ephrata
> imprint from the Ephrata Cloister community.
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> So I suspect that the work is European in origin, and Lynchester may be a
> fictitious imprint.

Before I made my guess that "Lynchester" = "Lancaster" I did an OCLC "find pb"
search and found no 18th century Martin Messner anywhere. 

Why would a Psalter -- of all things -- require a fictitious imprint? Aren't
such imprints almost always used for controversial works?

Perhaps the problem could be solved by close examination of the text of the
work to see what patterns of orthographic anomalies emerge.

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