Dave - it sounds as though you have 2 circular letters
printed on both sides of a single sheet for economy or
efficiency. Norman
At 02:22 PM 12/27/00 -0800, you wrote:
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