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What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “Peaceable, yet active Patriotism.” Yesterday, the Adverts 250 Project featured Robert Bell’s subscription notice for Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “SUBSCRIPTIONS for Hume, Blackstone, and Ferguson, are received by said Bell … and by the Booksellers and Printers in America.” Digitization makes primary sources more widely...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Those who have taken subscriptions of others, [send] their lists … to the Publisher.” In the course of just a few days late in the summer of 1771, readers in New England,...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “The List of Subscribers will be committed to the Press in a few Weeks.” When John Dunlap set about publishing “ALL THE POETICAL WRITINGS, AND SOME OTHER PIECES, OF THE...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “PROPOSALS For PRINTING by SUBSCRIPTION.” In the summer of 1771, James Humphreys wished to publish an American edition of William Robertson’s History of Scotland during...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “Encouraged by several gentlemen of eminence in the different provinces, to undertake the publication of the following litterary works, in America.” Robert Bell, one of...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “The Publisher will give two Copies gratis to such as shall collect One Dozen of Subscribers.” When John Fleeming of Boston set about publishing what he billed as “The...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING.” Thomas Green and Samuel Green, printers of the Connecticut Journal in New Haven, planned to publish “A careful and strict Examination...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Subscriptions are taken in by I. Thomas, Printer and Publisher … M.J. Hiller, Watch-maker in Salem.” As Isaiah Thomas prepared to relaunch the Massachusetts...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Massachusetts-Spy.” Just over six months after the Massachusetts Spy commenced publication in July 1770, printer Isaiah Thomas temporarily suspended the newspaper in...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “If they will now Subscribe and pay Twelve Shillings, they shall have a Book at the same price of the Government.” Advertisements helped to incite demand, but in the...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “The most judicious, sensible and learned Gentlemen … have already subscribed.” Subscription notices were a common form of advertising in early American newspapers. ...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “The late Rev. and pious Mr. Whitefield favoured the World a few years ago with his opinion of this work.” In December 1770, John Fleeming distributed subscription notices...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “Requested the Favour of the following Gentlemen to take in Subscriptions.” When Charles Leonard of Alexandria, Virginia, wished to publish “Six elegant Pieces...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “A Collection of HYMNS for social Worship … By that eminent and illustrious Servant of Christ, the late Rev. GEORGE WHITEFIELD.” In the weeks after George Whitefield’s...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “The Gentlemen who please to favour us with their Subscriptions, shall have their Names carefully published in an alphabetical List.” Like many books, maps were often...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “SUBSCRIPTIONS are taken in by the Printer of this Paper.” The many and various advertisements for consumer goods and services in the January 23, 1770, edition of the...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING BY SUBSCRIPTION.” A subscription notice for “ESSAYS on … the Indians of the Continent of North America, especially the several Nations...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this weel? “LONDON MAGAZINE.” Nicholas Langford, “Bookseller, on the Bay,” inserted an advertisement for the London Magazine in the December 7, 1769, edition of...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Essex Gazette (November 14, 1769). “The Last Solemn Scene, will be ready to be delivered to the Subscribers To-Morrow Noon.” Compared to many other American newspapers...
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