John Baskerville of Birmingham thinks proper to give notice that having now finished his edition of Virgil in one Volume, Quarto, it will be published the latter end of next month, price one guinea, in sheets. He therefore desires that such gentlemen who intend to favour him with their names, will be pleased to send them either to himself at Birmingham, or to R. and J. Dodsley in Pall Mall, in order that they may be inserted in the list of his encouragers. [1757-]
From Reed's Old English Letter Foundries, p. 272.
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BY his excellency.—I order Benjamin Harris to print the Acts and Laws made by the Great and General Court, or Assembly of their Majesties Province of Massachusetts-Bay in New England, that we the People may be informed thereof.
Boston, December 16, 1692. William Phipps.
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