Dear All,
In the 32 years since I was introduced the my first broadside at the Lilly,
I've seen and catalogued thousands, but lying next to my keyboard is a
"broadside" of a type I cannot remember having seen before and so I call on
the collective experience of ExLibris to aid me.
The document is printed on a single sheet of folio paper in 1820. On one
side is a broadside announcement signed in type by a politician and below
his "signature" is a full imprint line: Place, printer, year. On the other
side of the leaf is another broadside annoucement, with a different in-text
date, on a related topic. Again signed below the text in type by the
politician and with a full imprint line below his "signature."
Two distinct documents, each one page long, one on each side of the same
single leaf.
So, is this two broadsides? One broadsheet? Or yet something else?
Needless to say I fail to trace either "broadside" via RLIN, OCLC, NUC
Pre-1956, or the on-line catalogues of the libraries in the U.S. most
likely to have material from this place and time of printing.
All help and suggestions welcome.
Sincerely,
David Szewczyk (elzevir@prbm.com)
PRB&M (The Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Company)
website http://www.prbm.com
Post Office Box 9536 - Philadelphia, PA 19124
Phone 215/744-6734 - FAX 215/744-6137 - Members ABAA, ILAB
David Szewczyk and Cynthia Davis Buffington, Proprietors