Proposals by Joseph M. Sanderson, for publishing by subscription a Biography of the signers to the Declaration of Independence : Accompanied with portraits, and the Declaration, with fac-simile engravings of the signatures[.] By John Sanderson.
| Author/creator | Sanderson, Joseph M. |
| Other author | Lesueur, Charles Alexandre, 1778-1846, illustrator. |
| Other author | Longacre, James Barton, 1794-1869, engraver. |
| Other author | Warr, John, approximately 1798- engraver. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [Philadelphia] : J. Maxwell, printer, [1819?] |
| Description | 8 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. Second series no. 21281. ^A575643 |
| General note | Printer's name from verso of title page, which also states, "The first number (now in progress) will be published in March next ..." Sanderson's Biography of the signers to the Declaration of Independence, v. 1, was published at Philadelphia in 1820. An earlier edition of the proposals is dated Nov. 15, 1819 (Shaw & Shoemaker 49356). |
| General note | Five plates include engraved facsimile signatures of the signers, "copied from Mr. J. Binns' print, by J. Warr Jr. engraver, 110 Walnut St. Philada.", and engraved title page for the proposed work, illustrated by C.A. Lesueur and engraved by J.B. Longacre. Pages [3]-8 contain the Declaration of Independence, intended as a specimen of the printing and paper. |
| References | Shaw & Shoemaker 21281 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 21281). |
| Genre/form | Prospectuses. |
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