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Bibliography, n.d.

File — Box: 6, Folder: 12

Identifier: Series 3

Scope and Contents

Notes on and reproductions of various sources.

Dates: n.d.

Found in: Maine Historical Society / Glenn Skillin papers / <emph render="italics">A bibliography of Maine imprints 1785-1820</emph>

Biographical files, A-E, 1819 - 2009

File — Box: 6, Folder: 13

Identifier: Series 3

Scope and Contents

Includes: James Akin (engraver), Arthur Bradman (writer), Thomas Dilworth (writer), Daniel Eldridge (writer), and Joseph Emerson (writer, The evangelical primer, an original copy of which is included here). Files include research, correspondence, and other material.

Dates: 1819 - 2009

Found in: Maine Historical Society / Glenn Skillin papers / <emph render="italics">A bibliography of Maine imprints 1785-1820</emph>

Biographical files, F-Z, n.d.

File — Box: 6, Folder: 14

Identifier: Series 3

Scope and Contents

Includes: Jonathan Fisher, Aaron Fitz, Eliphalet Gillet (writer), Benaiah Hanson, William Jones (writer, publisher of his own works), Hezekiah Packard (writer), Thomas Smith (reverend, diarist), and Thomas Turner (only item here is solely genealogical; possibly misfiled). Files include research, correspondence, and other material.

Dates: n.d.

Found in: Maine Historical Society / Glenn Skillin papers / <emph render="italics">A bibliography of Maine imprints 1785-1820</emph>

Biographical files, Elias Smith, n.d.

File — Box: 6, Folder: 15

Identifier: Series 3

Scope and Contents

Smith (1769-1846) was a prolific author of religious tracts, published sermons, and hymns. Files include research and bibliographic listings, both manuscript and typescript.

Dates: n.d.

Found in: Maine Historical Society / Glenn Skillin papers / <emph render="italics">A bibliography of Maine imprints 1785-1820</emph>

Blank forms through 1820, n.d.

File — Box: 6, Folder: 16

Identifier: Series 3

Scope and Contents

Notes on and reproductions of various legal and government forms.

Dates: n.d.

Found in: Maine Historical Society / Glenn Skillin papers / <emph render="italics">A bibliography of Maine imprints 1785-1820</emph>

Booksellers, Maine, through 1820, n.d.

File — Box: 6, Folder: 17

Identifier: Series 3

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series houses material related to the research and writing of Glenn Skillin’s book, A bibliography of Maine imprints 1785-1820 (2015). Nearly all the files in this series were indexed by Skillin, and original titles and order was maintained. The general categories of files, mostly outlined in the index (see Box 6/Folder 8), are, in order: subject, collector, institution, and publications and printers. Material includes correspondence, notes, news clippings,...

Dates: n.d.

Found in: Maine Historical Society / Glenn Skillin papers / <emph render="italics">A bibliography of Maine imprints 1785-1820</emph>

Census data through 1820, n.d.

File — Box: 6, Folder: 18

Identifier: Series 3

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series houses material related to the research and writing of Glenn Skillin’s book, A bibliography of Maine imprints 1785-1820 (2015). Nearly all the files in this series were indexed by Skillin, and original titles and order was maintained. The general categories of files, mostly outlined in the index (see Box 6/Folder 8), are, in order: subject, collector, institution, and publications and printers. Material includes correspondence, notes, news clippings,...

Dates: n.d.

Found in: Maine Historical Society / Glenn Skillin papers / <emph render="italics">A bibliography of Maine imprints 1785-1820</emph>

Conger notes, n.d.

File — Box: 6, Folder: 19

Identifier: Series 3

Scope and Contents Notes on the conger system, defined thus in Wikipedia: "The conger was a system common in bookselling in 18th- and early 19th-century England, for financing the printing of a book. The term referred to a syndicate of booksellers, mostly in London, who bought shares to finance the book's printing. Each member agreed to take so many copies for sale themselves, and the final profit was split in proportion to the...

Dates: n.d.