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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 2 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
Conrad Beissel's Das Buchlein vom Sabbath in 1728, ushering in German printing in this country. In 1738 Christopher Saur or Sower established at Germantown what is the oldest extant publishing firm in the United States. Sower won his place in publishing annals by his three editions of the Bible, in 1743, 1762, and 1776. Not until 1782 was our first Bible in English published, by Robert Aitken at Philadelphia. But even more remarkable than Sower's editions of the Bible was the issue of Van Bragt's Martyr Book by the Ephrata brethren in 1748 and 749, which, in an edition of about 1300 copies of a massive folio of 1512 pages on thick paper, was the largest book until after the Revolution. Up to 1830 German printing was carried on in some 47 places, and of these at least 31 were in Pennsylvania, while in actual output and in intellectual stirring the balance was even greater in favour of that colony than these figures would indicate. Moreover, Germantown was the first place to gain
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Morse), 401 Universities in France, 423 University College (London), 460 University of the South, 305 Unmanifest destiny, 52 Unpartizan Review, the, 304 Unpopular Review, 304 Unreconstructed, 515 Upham, Charles, W., 141 Upham, S. C., 144 Urlsperger, Samuel, 577 Urlsperger Nachrichten, 577 Useful knowledge for the Producers of wealth, 434 Usher, H., 533 Valcour, 596 Valdes, 8 Valdez, Don Antonio, 625 Valera, 81 Vallandingham, Clement L., 349 Van Bragt, 536 Van Buren, 337 Vance, Hugh, 426 Vanderbilt (University), 214 Van Dyke, Henry, 129 Varieties of religious experience, 253 Vassall Morton, 190 Vassar, 412 Vaterlandslos, 581 Vega, Garcilasso de la, 618 Veiller, Bayard, 293 Venetian life, 78, 164 Verfassung undDemokratie der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, 586 Verga, 81 Verlaine, 50 Vermont Wool-Dealer, the, 285 Verplanck, G. C., 481, 543 Verrazano, the navigator, 185 Versterter Saboth,